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Frank Cornelissen is a Belgian native: a spare, thin man who landed on Etna in the year 2000 on his (wine) worldwide quest for the right territory – one that would inspire him ...

I Clivi wines hail from an area of Friuli straddling the Collio Goriziano and Colli Orientali appellations, where winery owner Mario Zanusso cultivates 12 hectares under native Ribolla ...

Franco Terpin is tall, big-built and imposing. A jovial but soft-spoken, kindly-mannered guy. Whenever I’ve conversed with him at some trade fair, it’s ...

Piero Macciocca and wife Rosa not only produce some decidedly good wines; they have quite a few merits besides. Like having sparked an interest in natural winemaking in the Cesanese del ...

Marco Tinessa is a young broker, at home in Milan. He is also an Irpinia native who set his career in Italy’s financial capital aside to pay tribute to the mountains near Naples ...

Prezza is a tiny village of inland Abruzzi overlooking Valle Peligna, a valley close to Sulmona that's considered the birthplace and cradle of Montepulciano, whence the variety spread ...

Raffaele Moccia is a simple man. He is also, however, an extremely headstrong one: how else to explain his obstinacy in persisting to grow grapes on one of the most difficult, ...

Iole Rabasco and her family cultivate approximately 10 hectares (25 acres) under vine in the heart of Abruzzo viticulture – the area comprised between Loreto Aprutino and Pianella, ...

It takes courage to give up everything you’d started – university studies and promising careers – and choose to go back home and take up winemaking from scratch. It’s ...

The arrival of spring and the first warm days of the year encourage consumers to enjoy refreshing whites, oftentimes fizzy or sparkling. Red wine bottles generally wind up neglected on store ...

Passerina is a native white variety grown in central Italy that was long relegated to a marginal role, considered a rather simplistic, rough-hewn wine because crops were high and quality ...

The Colli Piacentini appellation is a historic terroir for fizzy and sparkling wines, possibly the Italian area where production of fizzy wines has its deepest roots in tradition. The Croci ...

The Vespolina variety has long lived in the shadow of Piedmont’s more famous grapes. A native of the region’s north, it has always featured in the blend of such well-known ...

It took only a handful of vintages for Giuseppina Tornatore’s Rossese di Dolceacqua to become a highly sought-after wine among fans of the Ligurian varietal. With her husband, ...

I admit it: the Bardolino appellation never particularly appealed to me. I’d heard of it, I knew it was in the whereabouts of Lake Garda, but in the course of sporadic and ...

Il Moralizzatore is a small winery in Veneto with an objectively bizarre name for a wine grower [it means “The Moralizer”] and the double distinction of making good wines and ...

Podere Castellinuzza is a small winery in Lamole, an enclave of the Greve in Chianti municipality at approximately 1,640 feet (500 meters) above sea level, where we find some of ...

Over the past few years, Prosecco has become a vinicultural and enological phenomenon, with a production capacity of 355 million bottles (2015 figures). A veritable ...

I discovered Pigato by chance. Production of the wine is small and it's hard to find in the wine shops; nor does it generally come cheap. I discovered Pigato at a fair of artisanal ...

Giovanni Montisci’s winemaking venture began over twenty years ago, when Giovanni inherited two hectares of Cannonau vineyard. When he saw those abandoned, bush-trained ...

The first time you see the winery, you can’t help but be swept off your feet by the beauty of the vineyards and location. Colombaia – where Helena and Dante chose to make their ...

Teobaldo Rivella is a grapegrower whose understatement is a way of life. Measured and unhurried, he tells us of his work. Measured and unhurried, he cultivates 2 hectares under vine ...

The winery is located in Valdivilla, in Piedmont's province of Cuneo. Owner Alessandro Boido tells us how the name – “Ca' d'Gal,” “Home of the ...

Federico Staderini is an enologist of solid repute. He cut his teeth in Germany, then came back to native Italy, where he's been working as a consultant to numerous Tuscan ...

You occasionally chance upon wines you don’t expect: unimaginable, off the scale; extraordinarily enjoyable, as only certain wines can be when they are out of context. It ...

Cristiana Galasso is one in a million, someone who truly puts wine first, who sets passion for what she does above all else. If you should ever pay her a visit, you could not remain ...

It’s complicated. Writing about Giovanna Morganti’s wines and maintaining suitable objectivity is anything but easy for me; that’s because I admire the winemaker even beyond ...

Masiero’s Garganega hails from a small plot of land, less than one hectare that holds a trove of extremely old Garganega vines. Their roots have delved into this calcareous terrain in ...

Two official harvests may not suffice to proclaim a novel style, all the more so within an ancient, highly recognizable appellation like Soave. Yet ever since it was first released, ...

Giuseppe Filippo Barni cultivates around 3 hectares under vine at Brusnego, a little village in the Biella province, focusing on the area’s typical varieties: Nebbiolo (which is ...