Lee said he has been to Italy at least 20 times during the past two decades and has wanted to make a movie in the country for years. The opportunity arose three years ago when he read the James ...

Appearing on Italy's registry of recognized wine grapes at number 10, earlier than better-known number 52 Sardinian Cannonau, than Veneto's Tocai Rosso (number 236), and with Ligurian Granaccia ...

Gary mentions that there’s a lot of non-Indigenous grapes that blended in, and are planted in Italy, like Cabernet, more French varietals. And so today in Tuscany, we have some wines that have a ...

This article was originally published on www.swimsuit.si.com as Jena Sims’s Tuscany Travel Guide Is the Ultimate Wine Lovers ...

Sangiovese is the most popular and most widely grown wine grape in Italy’s Tuscany region, where this grape has been cultivated since the 1600s, according to “Wine Grapes” by Jancis Robinson ...

After visiting wine regions around the world, the best ones include Napa Valley, McLaren Vale, and Bordeaux. Here's which wineries to visit, too.

Made from 100 percent Sangiovese Grosso grapes, it’s smooth, dry, and aged for a minimum of two years in oak casks, plus an additional four months in the bottle.

TASTING NOTES: The Mazzei family has been making wine in Italy's Tuscany region since the 11th century and it shows in this outstanding, full-bodied, earthy red wine.

Gradually, the Cabernets, Syrah, Merlot supplanted it there too. From nearly 8,000 hectares of the vine in 1970, as of 2010 Italy claims just slightly more than 1,000, 89% of which is in Tuscany.

While the name Super Tuscan is now used to describe red wine from anywhere within Tuscany made with grapes other than Sangiovese, only vintages made by the 65 wineries in the specified region ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 4, 2019, Section D, Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: Different Grapes, All Screaming Italy.

Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone. Candles warding off frost at the Vini Franchetti Vineyards, Tuscany. Photograph courtesy Vini Franchetti Vineyards.