Just miles from Cortina’s Olympic runs, Alto Adige’s winemakers harness snowmelt, soaring elevations, and tradition to craft Alpine wines built for endurance.

Terroir driven wines from Alto Adige are hiding in plain sight. The diversity here can be challenging for wine lovers to get their heads around, but Paul Caputo explains why the region’s complexity ...

Ready for some transition-weather red wine? This weekend, as the weather turns cooler and maybe we’ve got a little more time to savor a glass or two of wine, it’s a good moment to turn our attention ...

Germany is renowned for the white wines made from its indigenous grape varieties, and yet in Italy’s northernmost region of Alto Adige, four of the six Germanic varieties grown there actually produce ...

Weather data confirm that 2024 was one of the most challenging growing seasons in recent memory. An unusually mild winter gave way to an early bud break around March 20, but this was soon followed by ...

The inhabitants of Alto Adige, Italy's premier alpine wine region, are a proud, almost stoic mountain people, with a distinctive Germanic culture. German is the primary language here, and the scenery ...

One man’s vino is another woman’s wein. In Alto Adige, the Italian wine region also known as Sudtirol by the locals who drink “wein,” multicultural bilingualism comes with the territory. This is Italy ...

It took a few days to get my bearings in Alto Adige. As the northernmost part of Italy, the region, also called South Tyrol, straddles the Austrian border but is proudly autonomous. I ordered negronis ...

You could be forgiven for needing a dictionary - two, actually - before tackling the typical wine label from Alto Adige. This northernmost area of Italy tucks up into southern Austria. And its ...

ITALY’S ALTO ADIGE REGION might lack the marketing power that comes from a strong association with a single grape—the sort that, say, Oregon enjoys with Pinot Noir, or Napa with Cabernet. But while ...