Those vineyards produce Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, the austere but elegant red wine to which the town's name is umbilically linked. Wine has been made here since at least the eighth century ...

Piazza Grande. And view, foothill Montepulciano. After three decades of living in Italy and having 'done' umpteen times many of its celebrated sights and cities, I sometimes rouse myself from ...

Although you might not realize it, almost everything about this wine is on the label: It’s from the up-and-coming Abruzzo region of central Italy; the grape is montepulciano, the area’s ...

Montepulciano's best hotels and restaurants, and information on how to reach the Tuscan town. ... (piazza San Francesco 3, tel 00 39 0578 758725, www.locandasanfrancesco.it), ...

The gamble would pay off: "The only other Montepulciano-dominated denomination of real significance — in terms of prestige if not of volume — is the Marche's Rosso Conero," Nicolas Belfrage ...

But there’s another Montepulciano worth knowing. Over dinner, I recently opened a bottle of Il Feuduccio ’s Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Ursonia 1999. As the name suggests, it’s made from the Montepulciano ...