If Paola Lanzavecchia has her way, Barolo will soon be a wine ranked alongside the best names in Burgundy. As winemaker and owner of Villadoria Winery in Italy’s Piedmont region, she represents the ...

Piedmont simply means "foot of the mountain,” but there’s nothing simple about its wines. A western region bordering Switzerland and France, Piedmont ranks only seventh among the Italian regions in ...

Tucked in the north of the country, between France and Switzerland, Piedmont is, for me, the jewel in Italy’s crown. The scenery is breathtaking and there are plenty of rooftop bars where you can ...

Barolo and Barbaresco are the two great wines of Piedmont, made with the nebbiolo grape. But Barbera grapes account for most of the planting in the province, and a trio of wines made with them ...

For the last 30 years, the red wine spotlight in and around Italy’s Piedmont region has been dominated by its big guns, Barolo and Barbaresco. And rightly so: These majestic wines are some of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. Explaining why he undertook this project beginning in 2003, ...

Looking for intense, dry, red wines? Simply remember one word - Dolcetto. That's the name of the grape and the subregion (Dolcetto D'Alba) in Italy's Piedmont region where you'll find some of the best ...

Italy is known for many wonderful things — but the rhinoceros is not one of them. Yet Piedmontese winemaker Giorgio Rivetti graces La Spinetta winery bottles with an image of the magnificent animal.

Angelo Gaja has no trouble competing with the sound of cannonfire. In fact, when the first broadside shakes the restaurant, he seems not to notice. As he declaims about global warming, his voice has a ...