Italian immigrants were instrumental in founding the California wine industry, yet when winemakers sought to upgrade the image of their wines in the mid-20th century, they followed the then-current ...

There are more than 350 white grape varieties officially recorded in Italy — and if you count those beyond the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s list, that number climbs to at least 500. Yet most ...

“Italy is the most complex wine-growing region in the world,” says Brian Larky, founder of Dalla Terra, an importer of Italian wines. “In California, you’ve got — what? — five, eight, 10 major growing ...

As a certified sommelier, I always have a few bottles of wine ready to go in case I have guests over. From bubbly to red, ...

Mention Mendocino wine these days, and most aficionados will think of pinot noir. That’s hardly surprising: Pinot noir still is hot in the wine world, and Mendocino’s chilly Anderson Valley produces ...

For California wine enthusiasts, the Columbus Day weekend used to mean a big San Francisco tasting focused on wines made from Italian grape varieties grown in the United States. That went away more ...

One thousand feet above Washington's Columbia Valley, the highest reaches of dusty Snipes Mountain lie beneath river stones, vineyards staked incongrously in a mix of arid earth and the water-rounded ...

Beginning shortly after the unification of their country in 1861, millions of Italians emigrated to the United States and to Canada and countries in South America. Many brought grapevine cuttings with ...

Native Italian grapes are obscure, and complex, and they've got a difficult-to-understand heritage. And yet, at this moment, they are building traction, and attention, and appraisal. Think of it as a ...