Bolzano (Bozen in German) is the largest city in Alto Adige, with 17th- and 18th-century Habsburg architecture creating beautiful streets and squares, and sits at the center of the “Y”-shaped region. Vine growing has been an integral part of the city’s history, and as the city has ...
Sweet wines of notice were produced around the towns of Asti and Alba in southeastern Piedmont as early as the 17th century using a grape called Moscato Bianco. It is possible that the wines were produced even earlier, as Moscato Bianco had been growing in Piedmont as long as the Piedmont’...
The name Beronia is not random – here is the explanation: “name linked to the history of the land where the winery is found. In the 3rd Century BC, the area known as Rioja today was inhabited by a Celtic tribe called the ‘Berones’. They inhabited the towns of Tricio, Varea, and...
leaders brought about renewed winemaking passion in other US states, in turn sparking the national wine renaissance. This period saw a proliferation of new, small-scale wineries throughout the country and the upscaling of longer-established operations. Momentum has continued into the 21st century. ...
wine industry remains split between decades-old approaches and more modern winemaking techniques and viticulture. This is exacerbated by the split between the vast amount of smallholder vineyards in the country and areas of large-scale viticulture and winemaking leftover from the mid-Twentieth Century....
The arc of the Italian wine industry bends towards quality in the 21st century, something that has become increasingly clear to Sue and me as we have visited many of Italy’s important wine regions in recent years. Quality has not always been Italian wine’s guiding star, however. Piero Ant...
The wine grape first arrived in Spain with the Phoenicians more than 3,000 years ago. The seafaring Semitic people blossomed in the 12th century B.C., carrying grapes from their Levantine homelands throughout the Mediterranean. Their descendants constructed the limestone wine presses at theSolana ...
Set inside a castle that dates back a thousand years, theWiMuis a literal descent into the story of wine. It starts on the third level’s panoramic terrace and finishes in the cellar, where the region’sNebbiolo-based wines were first produced in the mid-19th century. Along the way, it...
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