With reasonable alcohol and light structure, Tuscan reds pair more easily with food and don’t overwhelm like many New World reds. The reds of Tuscany are dominated by the red grape sangiovese and tend ...

There is something distinctly Italian about sangiovese. Maybe not so surprising as it is the most planted grape variety in Italy. Widely present in Tuscany, where we find it in Chianti, Chianti ...

No one whosoever could dispute that sangiovese possesses the single greatest name among all red wine grapes. It is likely that the name “sangiovese” comes from sanguis jovis, Latin for “the blood of ...

Wines made with Sangiovese grapes cover a wide range - from semi sweet to robust and bone dry. And since these wines taste great with food or on their own, it's no wonder they're so popular everywhere ...

Tuscany is where olive trees, sweetly scented cypress tress and a plethora of vines populate the hillsides, where the air is magnificent and the light brilliantly vivid, a reminder that these hills ...

Think of Emilia-Romagna's hyphen as a key to its wines. As the northwest part of this northern-Italian region, Emila prizes its lambruschi, a group of unrelated red-wine grapes with very different ...

Editor’s note: Additional information on Michigan Sangiovese was sent in after this story published and has been added to it. So let’s start with some Sangiovese basics. It’s the most widely grown ...

Last week, I wrote about three Sicilian red wines made with the same wine grape – nero d’avola. This week, I thought we would stay in Italy and learn more about even more popular red wine grape – ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Oft referred to as “Italy’s grape,” Sangiovese is as versatile as it is mercurial — Wild Common GM ...

L. Leolini, M. Moriondo, Y. Romboli, M. Gardiman, S. Costafreda-Aumedes, I. García de Cortázar-Atauri, M. Bindi, L. Granchi and L. Brilli Sugar and acid accumulation dynamics in grapes Vitis vinifera ...