2023 Italian Wine

One of the most beautifully named wine grapes Erbaluce, dubbed by the Romansa Alba Lux or “dawn light” owing to the limpid luminescence of its ripening berries, is an obscure grape variety hardly ever seen outside... Read More

You might be hard pressed to find a better liter-sized bottle of red wine at this price and quality. Ercole, whose English translation is Hercules, is only made possible by a generations-old cooperative of local growers in the... Read More

In 2004, four friends and vignerons in beautiful Tramonti along the picturesque Amalfi Coast (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) joined forces, pooling together their pre-phylloxera plantings of ancient varieties along with their expertise.... Read More

This is Montepulciano at another level; there is a heightened complexity in the intense aromatics and a liveliness on the palate that lets you know something a little serious is going on. Valle Reale was founded in 2000 with the... Read More

The wild and mountainous region of Abruzzo, with its eastern Adriatic shoreline is, as the crow flies, not so far from cosmopolitan Rome. In fact, it is just across the peninsula to the east, but the rugged north-south Apennine... Read More