Southern Italy’s primary focus is robust reds, from local varieties such as Aglianico, Gaglioppo, and Negroamaro, but there ...

A wine shop sign in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum’s main street. The sign tells viewers to 'come to the sign of the bowls' (ad cucumas). Some of the wines also have vintage dates.

Chianti, Italy’s most famous wine region, mostly lies just south of the city ... La Casuccia and San Lorenzo—that today ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

If you fly into Venice (or Verona, for that matter) you’ve hit a perfect base for visiting wineries in any number of classic northern Italian regions. To the north lie the Trentino and Alto ...

Produced by Federico De Cesare Viola. Profiles by Ray Isle, Emanuele Gobbi, Åsa Johansson, Giambattista Marchetto, Andrea Petrini, and Flavia Rendina. If you're heading into this region, build in ...

The map locates the towns of Livorno ... who imports nearly five million bottles of Italian wine into the United States every year. “People are not going to substitute wines from la Loire ...