Now And Zin Wine

Tenuta Regaleali is the Tasca family's flagship estate, located in the green highlands of central Sicily. How high are the highlands? Ab...

I found myself looking for an Italian red for cooking. This 2019 Piccolo Fiore Terre Siciliane Rosso did the trick. Like Julia Child always ...

Come Over October is a campaign dreamed up by a wine writer and a couple of publicists. The idea is, share wine with friends and family duri...

The Nero d'Avola grape is from Sicily. It is named after a town, Avola, in the southern part of the Italian island. If you like Shiraz w...

The Nero d'Avola grape is from Sicily. It is named after a town, Avola, in the southern part of the Italian island. If you like Shiraz w...

The Nero d'Avola grape is from Sicily. It is named after a town, Avola, in the southern part of the Italian island. If you like Zinfande...

The holidays are a great time for dessert wines. The festivities just seem to shine a little brighter with a sweet wine in your glass, which...

The Donnafugata winery was founded in 1983 by Giacomo Rallo , but there were three generations of winemaking experience before him. A fifth ...

Duca di Salaparuta is one of the oldest wineries in Sicily, producing fine wines since 1824. Their  Vajasindi Estate - in northeastern Sicil...

Duca di Salaparuta is one of the oldest wineries in Sicily, producing fine wines since 1824. Their  Vajasindi Estate - in northeastern Sicil...

Donnafugata is a Sicilian winery run by a family who has been making wine there for 170 years. Their name comes from a novel called The Leop...

People sometimes don't think that wine importers are very important, that all they do is have crates of wine shipped in from who-knows-w...

This is the final installment in my virtual tour of Italy.  The wines I have covered - all 48 of them - were mostly Tre Bicchieri award winn...

The Cusumano winery - now Under the Terlato umbrella - was started in 2001, when brothers Alberto and Diego Cusumano took over for their ...

People sometimes don’t think that wine importers are very important, that all they do is have crates of wine shipped in from who-knows-whe...

Italian food belongs with Italian wine, but be careful with the grape you choose.  I generally order a Sangiovese wine with any Italian di...

One of the great things about Italian wines is that there's always a new grape experience around the next corner, even when there'...

I'm disgusted with myself that it took me so long to get to Sotto in Los Angeles.  It's 15, 20 minutes from my home, right down P...

From the hillsides around Marsala comes a wine that makes me think of a California Pinot Noir, only, you know, Italian.  The Villa Pozzi ...

White wine should be interesting. There are plenty of them out there, those savory, salty, sometimes fishy white wines that refuse to be i...