Valpolicella Ripasso has long been my hero in wine emergencies. Invariably, when I am out with a large and thirsty group I am asked to choose the wine. To me, herding feral cats would be easier. I ...

There’s just something about the month of September that makes us long for new things. As much as we adore the abundant sunshine and steady, radiant heat of summertime, all of a sudden we’re ready for ...

All these years later, the “Goodfellas” spirit lives on — in a lineup of Italian wines as big, bold, and complex as the movie ...

Picking beverages is the easy part. These bottles, from $16 to $40, are all versatile, lively and will pair easily with ...

In Valpolicella, home of Italy’s revered Amarone, references to the Nebbiolo-based wines of neighboring Piedmont and Lombardy crop up unexpectedly. Perhaps it’s hard for winemakers here not to think ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. As with most Italian wine zones, family estates make up most ...

For decades, Valpolicella had a well-deserved reputation as “a thin, insipid wine,” said Eric Asimov in The New York Times. Finally, though, the Italian winemaking ­renaissance has come to ...

It’s said that the second greatest mistake (just behind the origin of Champagne) in winemaking occurred when winemakers in Valpolicella were attempting to make sweet wine from dried grapes and ended ...

Valpolicella is a type of wine, and Allegrini is a producer of Valpolicella. More specifically, Valpolicella is a viticultral zone in Veneto, Italy, and the wines that carry this region's name are ...