Langhe vineyards of Barolo and La Morra, Piedmont, Italy getty Tenuta Carretta. Barolo Cascina Ferrero. DOCG. 2015. From a hot vintage preceded by a cold winter comes this 14% alcohol Barolo.

We’re in Piedmont, folks. If Italy were a symphony, this would be its crescendo. In this region, tradition dances closely with innovation.

As a result, Gaja, since 2004, has been working in Piedmont to combat the effects of climate change, which first became noticeable in the 1990s after a series of warm, sunny vintages.

Villadoria’s Tenuta Cappallotto vineyards enclose about 50 acres in the hills of the prestigious terroir of Serranlunga d’Alba. The winery is state-of-the-art, and an historic farmhouse is ...

While Piedmont may be short on frescoes, it’s long on treasures of the palate, both food and wine, and produces some of the country’s best wine. Westernmost Italy is a hilly region of ...

One reason for its transformation was the rise of the local wine industry in the 1980s. The vineyards of Barolo and Barbaresco now turn out some of Italy’s most “highly prized” red wines.

Europe Italy’s wine industry is being tested by the effects of climate change in its vineyards October 28, 2018 More than 6 years ago ...

VALDELSA, Italy—Last year’s grape harvest was a harrowing scramble at Mirko Cappelli’s Tuscan vineyard. With the Italian border closed because of the pandemic, the Eastern European workers ...