The wine industry of Piedmont, as with virtually every other region in Italy, is based primarily on indigenous varieties. There are several, from the white Cortese and Timorasso to the red Grignolino, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Britt & Per Karlsson write on wine and wine travel, based in Paris Many wine lovers worship Nebbiolo. The grape has experienced a ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

Nebbiolo is among the world’s great red grapes, able to create wines that impeccably balance power and elegance. While Piedmont’s Barolo and Barbaresco appellations are the two places in the world ...

THOSE WHO GROW and make pinot noir know it to be a fickle mistress, a maddening grape that prefers a region on the distant edge of viticultural viability. It barely ripens and only rarely results in a ...

Is Nebbiolo the next Pinot Noir? Winemakers in California have been fiddling with Nebbiolo for almost three decades, and yet no one has found the key. In Piedmont, this is the grape that makes fabled ...

Italy is vying with France for the title of the most important wine-making country in the world. More of its wine is imported into the U.S. than any other, twice as much as its northern neighbor, ...

Luke Lambert in the Yarra Valley makes fine syrahs and chardonnays. But he wants to grow just one grape, make one wine and do it all himself. By Eric Asimov YARRA GLEN, Australia — In an unassuming ...