JamesSuckling.com presents the Great Wines of Italy US tour, beginning on Tuesday, March 6 at the IAC Building in New York City, featuring Italy's most sought-after wines from prestigious and renowned Italian brands as well as chosen premium boutique wineries. World-renowned wine critic James Suckling has selected more than 120 wineries to present...

All retailers here in California and in the West Coast have a great passion for Italian food. The small and independent ones in particular play a key role, educating customers and communicating with them. Italian food is probably the premium category in every store. That is what Richard Armanino, General manager of ItalFoods, says in the following...

“The Authentic Italian Table” will gather most of the South Florida restaurants honored with the Italian Quality Seal – Marchio Ospitalita’ Italiana as well as gourmet food & wine importers. It will be an high-end Italian food & wine event, for 100+ industry leaders, journalists, influencers and for a selected group of 500+ foodies. The Italy-Ameri...

Immerse in Italian culture at the first annual Arkansas Italian Food & Culture Festival, presented by Relyance Bank, coming to North Shore Riverwalk on Friday, April 20, 4 p.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturday, April 21, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. “The goal is that when you’re at the festival and close your eyes and listen, and smell the food, that you will be inundate...

For the last two years, Italy’s “Slow Wine tour” has come to Texas. When I first moved to the state in 2008, that would have been nearly unthinkable. At the time, Texas and its three major wine destinations — Houston, Dallas, and Austin — were part of an “emerging” as opposed to “established” market for fine wine. As one prominent Texas-based wine...

92% of Made in Italy high-quality products are produced in small villages, counting no more than 5.000 inhabitants. This is what emerged from a joint study by Coldiretti, the greatest collective body representing Italian farmers, and Symbola Foundation, one of the most active institutions in promoting Made in Italy, titled “Small villages and speci...

Sauternes, Tokay, Vin Santo. The great dessert wines of the world all offer inimitable charms. While I’ve had occasion to enjoy many in their place of creation, I’ve seldom tasted one that sung so firmly and sweetly of its homeland as Ben Ryé by Donnafugata. From an island positioned between Sicily and North Africa, comes this white passito-style w...

It was a difficult year. In 2014, throughout Italy the summer never quite got up to speed. Instead of grape-ripening sun, northern vineyards especially were covered in clouds and rain, a lack of light and warmth that hit red wine places like Veneto's Valpolicella hard. With the cool dampness came vine damage, destructive downy mildew and flavor-cha...

Ernesto Di Renzo of the University of Rome Tor Vergata presents "From Dionysus to Happy Hour: The Complexity of Wine Between History, Culture and Taste Experiences" at the Italian American Museum on Tuesday, February 27 at 6:30pm. 155 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10013. For reservations please call the Museum at 212.965.9000, send an email to ItalianA...

The discovery of 6,000-year-old wine traces in a Sicilian cave captured public attention, but for experts the find was even more exciting. Professor Davide Tanasi, who led the team that analyzed the wine, explains why it changes our understanding of ancient Sicilian culture. Monte Kronio rises 1,300 feet above the geothermally active landscape of s...