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.
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Dear love, I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me, and how there aren’t enough words to express this. But I am a flawed human. I may not always be on time with the flowers, helping out with the chores, keeping places tidy and neat, or quick to understand what you need most when you’re busy.
Despite all that, there is one thing I am good at: picking out the wine for our evening.
Because wine is, after all, my love language.
December 27, 2022Demarie is a small, family-owned winery in Vezza d'Alba in the heart of Piedmont's Roero appellation. The winery...
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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.
“A valley surrounded by tall and fearsome mountains'' is how Leonardo Da Vinci described the region of Valtellina in his Codex Atlanticus. Da Vinci (apparently a clandestine w...
April 09, 2021"Valtellina is one of the wine world’s most extreme and challenging locations. The terraced vineyards there face south, basking in uncommon amounts of sunlight in the valley that runs east to west." Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
February 20, 2021Young but wise-beyond-her-years, Giulia Negri talks about finding her footing in Barolo.
March 20, 2018Azienda Vitivinicola Barbaglia sits on volcanic soils, located 500 meters above sea level, in Alto Piemonte. Grape Collective talks to Silvia Barbaglia.
