Most Italian Pinot Grigio comes from Alto Adige or Friuli-Venezia Giulia, but Bruno Verdi hails from Oltrepo Pavese in Lombardy (30 miles south of Milan and 50 miles north of Genoa). While it is true that so many Pinot Grigios... Read More
Named after an old farmhouse, Cieck is a 32-acre winery in northern Piedmont at the foot of the Alps. Local varieties include the usual red grapes like Nebbiolo and Barbera, but Erbaluce is a white varietal native to the Canavese... Read More
Named for the vespa (wasps) who love this grape as much as we do, Vespaiolo (ves-pie-olo) is famous for its late-harvest wines, but the dry version is pretty remarkable too. One sniff and taste, and it's no wonder bees and... Read More
In the pantheon of dessert wines, there are French Sauternes, German Trockenbeerenauslese, TBA for short, and Hungarian Tokaji. They are also examples of wines made of botrytized (aszú) grapes, i.e., those withered on the... Read More