Discover why Langhe Nebbiolo offers Barolo-level depth without the hefty price tag. Explore nine exceptional bottles that ...

The Valtellina is a long, sinuous alpine valley bordered by the Bernina Alps, part of the Rhaetian Alps, the Ortles Mountains in the northeast and the Orobie Alps to the south. It snakes its way along ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. The wine industry of Piedmont, as with virtually every other ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles. Yet, despite ...

THOSE WHO GROW and make pinot noir know it to be a fickle mistress, a maddening grape that prefers a region on the distant edge of viticultural viability. It barely ripens and only rarely results in a ...

“Nebbiolo is famous for having flavors from tar to roses and everything in between,” said Clifton, explaining that the heavy tannins help cut through the fat and make you want another bite. “There is ...

I AM OFTEN asked what my favorite grape varietal is, and while cabernet sauvignon is indeed one of my true loves, I however like cabernet sauvignon more in the context of medoc — so it is more as a ...

After a trip to Italy and southern France, Joe and Yvette Kirwin decided it was time for a change of pace. European food culture is calm and intimate, they said --different from the "go, go, go" of ...