Italian Wine Club March 2026
As the least heralded region in a North Central Italian triumvirate that includes Tuscany and Umbria, Le Marche sometimes gets lost in the stampede of visitors thronging its famous neighbors. It’s also easy enough to...
January 2026 Wine of the Month Club: Cantina Madonna Della Grazie
CANTINA MADONNA DELLE GRAZIE With winter in full swing (though it oddly feels more like spring here in San Francisco), I racked my brain for what I would like to reach for on cold nights....
Italian Wine Club December 2025: Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli is arguably Italy’s most diverse, unpredictable and widescreen wine region. Bordering Austria to north, Slovenia to the east, Veneto to the west and facing the Adriatic Sea to the south, Friuli-Venezia Giulia (henceforth abbreviated...
November Italian Wine Club: Island Wines
When it comes to wine, Sicily is what the grownups might’ve called a ‘cheat code’, back when they were kids. The largest island in the Mediterranean is home to 135,000 hectares of vineyards – more...
October 2025 Italian Wine Club
The Molise Conspiracy Whenever I have the bad idea to generalize about Italian wine, I end up paraphrasing Rick describing Captain Renault in Casablanca - Italy is just like any other wine destination, only more...
September Italian Wine Club: Emilia-Romagna
Tuscany may draw more tourists, but Emilia-Romagna, its neighbor to the north, mounts a mosaic of Italian cultural splendor everywhere you look. Stretching across north-central Italy, from the southeastern tip of Piedmont to the Adriatic...