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...
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...
OFF THE BEATEN PATH While most are familiar with rosé from the Provence region of France, we know rosés are produced all over the world in a range of styles from fuller-bodied, almost light reds,...
Summer Vacation Rosé With our cold and grey summer in full effect, it’s nice to get away to somewhere warm, or at the least enjoy a nice rosé from a sunny locale. This month we...
Wine might not be the first thing you associate with Italy’s Veneto region. That’d likely be Venice, the capital, and one of the most famous places on the planet, endlessly mythologized, celebrated, depicted - in...
Tiny, alpine, and semi-autonomous, the Valle d’Aosta is Italy's smallest and least populous region. A speck squeezed into the country’s northwestern corner, it is dwarfed on all sides by its more imposing neighbors. Piedmont, 8...
