We now return you to your regular Wine School programming. No place is more famous for its nebbiolo wines than the Langhe in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, home to Barolo and Barbaresco. But the Langhe is far from the only place in which nebbiolo prospers.

To the north, in the foothills of the Alps, nebbiolo makes wonderful wines in appellations like Ghemme, Gattinara, Bramaterra and Carema, reminiscent of Barolo and Barbaresco but distinctive as well. East of the Piedmont in Lombardy, northeast of Milan almost at the Swiss border, is Valtellina, where nebbiolo, known there locally as chiavennasca, makes remarkable wines.