Italy, a country renowned for its rich history, stunning landscapes, and delectable cuisine, is also celebrated as one of the world’s premier wine destinations. With a winemaking tradition spanning centuries, Italy’s vineyards produce a vast array of wines, each with a unique character and flavour profile. To truly appreciate Italian wines, one mus...

Falling prices, hidden gems, the wines that, in different vintages, have improved the most over time, the labels to invest in, the producers to follow most closely and more. There are many insights that come from the “Wine Leagues” 2023 analysis by “Wine Lister”, the famous English portal dedicated to fine wines. Wine Lister looked at price trends....

Just a short distance from Milan, Italian sparkling wine region Franciacorta languishes in the long shadows cast by two better known but vastly different types of effervescent wine, Champagne and Prosecco. The first, which every wine lover knows is only produced in the Champagne region of France, is the luxurious standard-bearer for sparkling wine...

The year 2023 has been a remarkable year for Italian wines. The strength and diversity of Italian wine production were put on full display, with numerous wines from a variety of regions and categories making a significant impression on wine lovers and critics alike. From sparkling Proseccos and vibrant Lambruscos to Sangiovese-based Vino Nobile di...

Eager to explore, Gen X and millennial consumers are branching away from traditional (and often domestically grown) grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. Instead, a clear preference has emerged on online drinks platform Drizly, where the share of Italian wine has to 14% in 2023, up from 13% in 2022. The share of long-term favourit...

Small family-run company, Fattoria Moretto, was founded in 1971 after Antonio Altariva, the patriarch, arrived in the area from Pavullo nel Frignano in the 1960s to establish a sharecropping contract. It was his son Domenico who purchased the first properties including a house and a cellar. However, the most significant step occurred in 1991 when t...

Italian sparkling wines are just short of surpassing 1 billion bottles consumed in a year. The year 2023 will stop at 936 million bottles (of which 7 out of 10 abroad), with a substantial hold in consumption, in volume, on 2022 (and +24% on 2019), with 333 million caps that will jump, in the world, in the festive period of the end of the year alone...

Grazie Nonna, which rode the Italian-American nostalgia wave when it opened last year, now has a showier cocktail bar neighbor. Grazie Mille, sticking to owner Casey Patten’s gratitude-expressing naming scheme (his downtown sandwich shop is called Grazie Grazie), opened for drinks, Italian bites, and live-spun music last week. With low lighting, ve...

The year was 1370, and even the shimmering canals of Venice brought no joy to Francesco Petrarch. Over the last two decades, the world-renowned scholar and poet had travelled the length and breadth of Italy. But with every passing year, he found himself retreating more from social life, seeking to escape the "ignorance" of his age. "I escape the ci...

The vineyards that Marco Mossa tend to in Orosei are at a stone's throw from the quarries, “it is no coincidence,” he tells us, “that when working the vineyard, it’s normal to find hands and clothes covered in light-coloured dust”. Hence, the idea. Why not try ageing a small selection of his wine, a Cannonau di Sardegna, right in the Orosei marble?...