There is something distinctly Italian about sangiovese. Maybe not so surprising as it is the most planted grape variety in Italy. Widely present in Tuscany, where we find it in Chianti, Chianti ...

Located in Sant’ Angelo in Colle in the commune of Montalcino, Tenuta Il Poggione was established at the end of the 19th century by Lavinio Franceschi and is still owned today by the fifth generation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sangiovese is one of the most important grape varieties in Italy. This is not an overstatement: It forms the backbone of Chianti, ...

Think of Emilia-Romagna's hyphen as a key to its wines. As the northwest part of this northern-Italian region, Emila prizes its lambruschi, a group of unrelated red-wine grapes with very different ...

Last week, I wrote about three Sicilian red wines made with the same wine grape – nero d’avola. This week, I thought we would stay in Italy and learn more about even more popular red wine grape – ...

Some wines feature the name of the grape on the label. Others list the place where the wine was made. Then there’s Montecucco Sangiovese. The name of these outstanding Italian red wines packs in a lot ...

Editor’s note: Additional information on Michigan Sangiovese was sent in after this story published and has been added to it. So let’s start with some Sangiovese basics. It’s the most widely grown ...

Suisun Valley, perfectly nestled between coastal mountain ranges southeast of Napa, is a wine grower’s paradise and the fruits of their labor are being pulled from vines each day from now through ...