Let's break down the wine scene in Piedmont, where Italy keeps some of its most epic bottles. Fair warning: once you get into these wines, your Two-Buck Chuck days are officially numbered.
barbera
- December 27, 2022
Demarie is a small, family-owned winery in Vezza d'Alba in the heart of Piedmont's Roero appellation. The winery...
Fratelli Ponte started when Carlo Ponte built a small wine cellar after World War II to make wine from his Barbera vines at Bricco Ronchesio in the San Damiano d’Asti area of Piedmont. Today his three grandsons Massimo, Ivan and Renato run the family business. Grape Collective talks with Massimo Ponte about what it means to make an authentic wine representative of the region.
- April 13, 2018Piedmontese winemakers Annette Hilberg and Michelangelo Pasquero are redefining biodynamics.
- January 29, 2016Monferrato, the home of Barbera.
- January 16, 2014We pick some wines from Lettie Teague's Wall Street Journal column on Barbera