Every year, thousands of tourists from all over the world visit the historic village of San Gimignano. Indeed, San Gimignano is one of the most unique and best preserved medieval hilltop villages in Tuscany. Amazingly, this city looks a lot like it did in the 12th and 13th centuries.
San Gimignano’s “skyline” is defined by several distinctive towers, earning it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List…
Carema is an almost alpine region, producing red wines, which is located in Piedmont (Italy), bordering the Valle d’Aosta. It is the northernmost zone of Piemonte, where the renowned Nebbiolo grape variety is grown using the Picutener and Pugnet clones. These clones are quite similar to the Lampia and Michet found in the Langhe…
Ghemme DOCG is located on the opposite bank of the Sesia River compared to Gattinara. Although Ghemme’s wines were historically overshadowed by their neighbor’s prominence, they too maintained a good reputation until the end of the nineteenth century, when the northern Nebbiolos were overwhelmed by their southern counterparts…
Gattinara is the best and longest standing example of Nebbiolo from northern Piedmont. For a long time, Gattinara was considered the most prestigious wine in Piedmont. The appellation suffered from a lengthy period of decline, but the best examples now merit the high reputation they once had…
Barbaresco, like Barolo DOCG, is a highly prestigious Nebbiolo appellation. If Barolo is the king of wines, then Barbaresco is unquestionably the queen.
Local producers have been producing Nebbiolo wines in the Barbaresco area since at least the 18th century, but the wines are not tied with the village’s name. Prior to the 1890s, Barbaresco grapes were frequently employed in the making of Barolo…
Barolo is regarded one of Italy’s greatest wines, with the best expression of the Nebbiolo grape varietal (see Valtellina for other expressions of this grape variety). Although its origins are shrouded in obscurity, its rise to prominence is not.
Supposedly, the red wines of this region were…
Piemonte encompasses the majority of Italy’s northwest and is the country’s second largest wine region after Sicily. This region is a rich source of high-quality and atypical wines made from over 20 different, often unique grape varietals. These vines are exclusively grown on hillsides, and the vineyard area exceeds 45 000 hectares…
Valtellina is located in Italy in the Lombardia region. It is the most northern wine-growing region in Lombardy. In the foothills of the Italian Alps, on the northern bank of the Adda River, the vineyards in this area are spread out along a relatively narrow strip of land…
Although it produces some distinctive red wines, the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (the easternmost region in northern Italy) is renowned for its white wines. Here is where a new wave of fresh, protectively-made varietal wines were first produced in Italy…