Many wine lovers worship Nebbiolo. The grape has experienced a boom in recent years, which has benefitted the entire region of Piedmont in the northwest of Italy. This is the home of Nebbiolo, and it ...

From mineral-driven Arneis to softer, food-friendly Nebbiolo, this historic DOCG appellation offers beauty, balance, and ...

Not so long ago, as in well less than a century ago, grape growers in the Piemonte in northwest Italy were mostly subsistence farmers, scratching out a living selling their fruit in bulk to ...

Nebbiolo is the grape variety responsible for Italy’s revered Barolo and Barbaresco bottlings, while also thriving in the nearby region of Valtellina near the Swiss border. In the right hands and ...

A deep dive into Nebbiolo: From Roero’s elegance to Barolo’s power, a blind tasting in Alba revealed the striking contrasts of this noble grape. Few wine regions in the world offer the kind of deep, ...

“Quick, I have $100,000 to spend! What can you get me in, say, big-name Bordeaux? My plane is waiting …” This was the essence of a telephone conversation one of the tasters at the latest Omniboire ...

When it comes to wine royalty, nebbiolo is considered by most to be the king, the queen and even the grande dame of Italy’s royal court. Native to northwest Italy, the grape is responsible for some of ...

Winter is nebbiolo’s season. We’re talking an old-fashioned winter – a winter when pipes freeze, rivers threaten to breach levees, fog settles in like a cat curled up in front of the fireplace, ...

Whenever I come across a good, reasonably priced Nebbiolo, I think it’s real news. Nebbiolo, of course, is the red star of the Piedmont region in northern Italy, the grape that produces the famed ...

But French grapes are by no means to be ignored. Burgundy’s supposedly “lesser” white wine grape Aligoté, once awfully tart, ...