See our guide to 2012 wine book reviews . Brunello di Montalcino Understanding and Appreciating One of Italy's Greatest Wines Kerin O'Keefe University of...

Very hot, very dry, and very little - and prices are up. Although Italy has been buzzing with opinions and comments on the 2012 vintage for weeks, the 'official' vintage assessment...

Below is a collection of tasting notes I have tarried far too long before publishing –probably because I am not particularly proud of them. They were taken in rather difficult circumstances,...

Walter's tasting notes on nearly 60 examples of these useful sparkling wines follow. And see my reviews of a number of top English sparkling wines (and some still ones) on...

The 2011 vintage in Italy has turned out to be the smallest vintage the country has produced since the 1940s. At the beginning of the harvest, Assoenologi, the Italian Association of Enologists,...

While Italy has barely finished harvesting what is generally considered a hot and early vintage, news has emerged that, against all common sense, the authorities have authorised must enrichment...

The 114 wines here were all tasted when I visited Puglia for the Radici del Sud wine competition reported on in Getting to grips with Puglia . As you will see, the competition, which used to be...

Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani recently published this interview with Jane Hunt MW here , in Italian, on the Association of Italian Sommeliers website. Jane has been involved professionally...

Although the Bordeaux vintage rumour mill traditionally starts to spin almost before grapes are visible on the vine, Italy is much more cautious about vintage predictions. This may have to do with...

ITALY The 2010 vintage in Italy will be remembered as among the least productive in terms of quantity and perhaps the most sparse. Overall quality is good, with scattered excellence here and...

In Europe 'tis the season of mellow fruitfulness, and the latest editions of Italian's most influential wine guides. The first to start the media fanfare is Gambero Rosso with its Vini d'Italia,...

Anyone halfway familiar with the maps of the World Atlas of Wine will immediately agree that while France's regions look so tidy and clear, Italy's tangled lines delineating its myriad regions...

Italian wine, with its confusing nomenclature and elastic regulations, is the very model of a modern major genre of wine at its most convoluted. Very little about Italian wine is ever definitive -...

Angelo Gaja sends the following. Although 2009 was a black year for Italian exports overall, down 20% according to the official government statistics, for Italian wine it was an...

UK importer Liberty Wines, founded by Italian specialist David Gleave MW in 1997 and winner of the International Wine Challenge's Italian Specialist Merchant award in nine out of the last 11...