Like most people, I've always been fascinated by maps. To see how a region or country or city is laid out and get a better understanding of a locale is fascinating. Some maps are simple, while others ...

Friuli-Venezia Giulia’s vineyards benefit from the breezy, sunny microclimate created by their equidistance from the Austrian Alps to the north and the Adriatic Sea to the south. SOPA/Corbis My love ...

Our visitors to the tasting room today are a couple of winemaking regions from Italy’s South: Abruzzo and Campania. Halfway up the eastern side of the peninsula, behind the “knee” of the boot, Abruzzo ...

Italy is home to some of the most familiar, beloved wines in the world. But branching out from the classics can lead to a whole new world of wine discovery. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, ...

When the ancient Greeks descended from their tall trireme decks and onto the shores of Southern Italy, they saw the unrivaled viticulture of Calabria and dubbed its sun-soaked shores the perennial ...

Rossese (Liguria): Both Tacconi and Mason are fans of the Rossese wine region at the foothills of the Ligurian Alps, some 1,600 feet above sea level. Its signature wine, Rossese di Dolceacqua, is a ...

A famous Italian filmmaker who made an area one of the top for Sangiovese wines outside of Tuscany is having his passion project carried on by two brothers who want to keep this legendary estate ...

About 2,000 years ago, Magno Megonio, a refined centurion of the Roman age, left a vine to his heirs through the oldest document about winemaking and viticulture ever found: It was carved on marble ...

Tuscany, Piedmont, Veneto and Sicily are where Americans head when they think of visiting the wine regions of Italy, but Conde Nast Traveler has some suggestions for alternative wine destinations that ...