Italian immigrants were instrumental in founding the California wine industry, yet when winemakers sought to upgrade the image of their wines in the mid-20th century, they followed the then-current ...

There is something distinctly Italian about sangiovese. Maybe not so surprising as it is the most planted grape variety in Italy. Widely present in Tuscany, where we find it in Chianti, Chianti ...

One thousand feet above Washington's Columbia Valley, the highest reaches of dusty Snipes Mountain lie beneath river stones, vineyards staked incongrously in a mix of arid earth and the water-rounded ...

For California wine enthusiasts, the Columbus Day weekend used to mean a big San Francisco tasting focused on wines made from Italian grape varieties grown in the United States. That went away more ...

He’s bent on introducing his customers to regional wines made from indigenous Italian grapes. Two more debut tonight: Massaretta, a Tuscan variety which grows only around the city of Massa and which ...

Those Italian varietals thrive on the High Plains around Lubbock, although the dusty, wind-blown, table-flat region could hardly be mistaken for Basilicata, Campania or the Abruzzo. And though a ...

Italian Sausages with Grapes and Vinegar is a dish that has roots established long ago in the vineyards of Italy. The dish was designed to feed Umbrian laborers working with the grapes. The sausage’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Beginning shortly after the unification of their country in 1861, millions of Italians emigrated to the United States and to Canada and countries in South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A certain faction of wine drinkers like to state (often emphatically) they drink only old-world wine. It is widely accepted that ...