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...
Lombardia After almost 3 years picking regions and wines for the Italian Wine Club, I decided, at the beginning of this month, to look back, take stock and compile some statistics. Curious to see which...
TOSCANA Of all the convoluted, impenetrable, byzantine, clarity-hostile, sense-taunting barriers to understanding that the wine world tends to construct, the whole ‘Montepulciano’ pre-fab may be the most gratuitously unhelpful. Years ago, it even almost derailed...
LIGURIA Though arguably most associated with France, the Riviera - as concept, aspiration, and actuality - originates in Liguria, in northwestern Italy. The word itself is Italian for “coastline,” and was first applied to the...
CAMPANIA As we have learned from many visits here in IWC, when it comes to vino-spewing volcanoes, Mt. Etna in Sicily tends to attract the most oxygen, not just in terms of Italy, but Europe...
“Sardinia”, said DH Lawrence, “is something else.” The famous English author was so smitten with the island that, following a brief trip there in January 1921, he composed the travelog “Sea and Sardinia”, which attempts...
