Our last buying trip covered much of northern Italy including Barolo, Barbaresco, Valpolicella, Prosecco, Alto Adige and Friuli. I have fortunately been to Piedmont

Hemingway is reputed to have drunken A LOT which is interesting because in novels such as A Moveable Feast he commented on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s consumption

Though most wine drinkers of the world know of Prosecco, they do not realize that it went through a crisis around two years ago. With the dwindling economy

We then drove north to Barbaresco, a region that again is home to the Nebbiolo grape. The wines, with a few significant exceptions (Gaja, Giacosa), are lighter

Italy: land of fine wine, incredibly delicious food and intense beauty. These were my thoughts as we drove north out of Genoa, through Serralunga to the little town of Monforte d’Alba, in the heart of Barolo