Italy

Tasting articles See inside information for some background to this relatively unknown variety and varietal. These current examples are listed in order...

Inside information Piemonte is usually associated with red wine but it is home to an unusual array of relatively aromatic white grapes...

Inside information Nov 2007 – Now Delia has thought better of this adventure and has come back from Tuscany. One of the...

Inside information It is always entertaining and informative to see Angelo Gaja who is, like Piero Antinori, Miguel Torres and the late...

Travel tips Next time you're planning a trip to Venice, check out www.alberghi-venezia.it, a search engine developed by a group of hotel...

Nick on restaurants It is 1am and Gennaro Contaldo, chef/proprietor of Passione restaurant calls his fellow professional and compatriot Giorgio Locatelli on his...

Free for all As usual, I get my news on what's going on in Europe via Brazil, from one of purple pages' most...

Nick on restaurants Luca Monica eats in more than 200 restaurants and travels over 80,000 kilometres around Italy every year for his food...

Tasting articles See my take on this in wine news. I tasted 98 of the 250 wines glorified with tre-bicchiere/three-glass status in...

Free for all One of the great mysteries of the wine world is why the British are so bad at Italian wine. American...

Nick on restaurants Thirty-five years ago Pio Tosini, who died earlier this year aged 95, lost an argument that has had a profound...

Free for all Rain makes vignerons sad and truffle hunters happy so make what you will of my damp experiences filming here. I...

Free for all While Sicily is in a state of wine revolution (see Sicily – Italy's new California), there are signs that vinous...

Free for all The funny thing about Lazio, the Italian wine region of which Rome is capital, is how relatively un-winey it is...

Free for all Italy now has an 'international' grape variety, says Jancis Robinson If you spent your summer holiday in Tuscany or Umbria...

Free for all Like most wine geeks I have happily swallowed the old saw that such increasingly fashionable grape varieties as Greco, Grecanico...