Vaccaro’s Trattoria is holding a five-course wine dinner this week. The dinner - 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 - focuses on ...

Nine wines made the 2024 San Francisco International Wine Competition’s (SFIWC) final round for best Italian varietal wines. The SFIWC is one of the most prestigious wine competitions in the world, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While other Tuscan winemakers trying to make a splash veer toward international varieties and IGT classifications, Giovanni Mazzei ...

Understanding how a wine region evolves—vintage after vintage—is never simple. Grapes reflect not only weather, but also farming shifts, winemaking choices, and cultural change. For a grape like ...

Let's face it, Chianti can be confusing. With 8 different sub-zones, varying rules on production, a classification called Superiore that can be used in 7 of the 8 zones, and a number of wines that ...

Italy, the land of red wine! Chianti with wild boar ragù, Barolo with white truffles, porchetta with Montepulciano d’Abruzzo — wait. Stop. Throw that Fiat into reverse. A lot of the great wines of ...

Chianti has shed its old straw-covered fiasco image and, over the past decade, taken another leap forward under stricter quality rules. During our recent visit to this idyllic Italian region, we ...

Mazzei’s family has deep roots in Chianti: The earliest historic reference to the Chianti wine region is in a letter written by one of his ancestors, Ser Lapo Mazzei, in December 1398, more than 300 ...