From €24.29, £19,99, $38.99, 45 Swiss francs and Can$57.95 a bottle. Find the Poggione Ooh, ah - fancy recommending a 2003 Brunello...! Longstanding visitors will...

London wine merchant Swig , who sell 'artisan wines from around the world', has invited purple pagers to a walk-around tasting of '30 very special Italian wines' selected from the Best 100 Wines...

Chianti Classico producer Il Borghetto’s fetish for Burgundian bottles has fallen foul of the Chianti Classico Consorzio. Tim Manning, winemaker of Il Borghetto, an estate in Tuscany’s San...

First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within reach of a branch of our most famous retailer (especially of underwear - hence the image, not...

“I’m a real Chianti girl”, proudly claimed Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti, owner of highly acclaimed Tuscan estate Badia a Coltibuono. Dressed all in black, with dark hair pulled back, this...

bianco , white. cantina means literally ‘cellar’ or ‘winery’. A Cantina Sociale is a co-operative winery. Classico , usually the original heartland of a wine...

In a nutshell: Italy's dynamic wine powerhouse. Main grapes: Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon (red); Trebbiano (white). It may seem logically and geographically absurd to...

In a nutshell: Almost Tuscany but with its own grape specialities. Main grapes : Sangiovese, Sagrantino (red); Trebbiano, Grechettto (white). Umbria, effectively a...

Please note that italics refer to grape varieties that have their own entries in this guide to hundreds of the most significant grapes currently grown around the world to produce red, and...

2006 Very promising vintage with a steady, prolonged growing season and well balanced wines. 2005 Grapes had to be picked before the rain really set in if decent wine was to be...

I’m not a huge enthusiast for the sexual stereotyping of wines but even I can see that Cabernet Franc might be described as the feminine side of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is subtly fragrant and...

I'm not a huge enthusiast of the sexual stereotyping of wines but even I can see that Cabernet Franc might be described as the feminine side of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is subtly fragrant and...

Until recently Sangiovese, Italy's most widely planted vine variety, was a grape in the wilderness. And whenever the name Sangiovese did appear on a label it was far from a guarantee of greatness....

Cabernet Sauvignon may be the world's best-travelled dark-skinned wine grape, but that does not necessarily mean that it makes great wine everywhere. In fact, as time goes on, I become more and...

Those who have read our coverage of  Brunellopoli/Brunellogate with particular care will have seen that Conte Francesco Marone Cinzano, who stood down as chairman of the Consorzio when his...