It was time travel of sorts on Sunday, as the Consulate of Italy in Kolkata hosted a dinner to honour the legacy of Firpo’s ...

The heat is on. Literally. After the last week or so, there’s no denying that furnace season has fully arrived. Heck, snow is ...

Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles.

Almost all of world’s wine production depends on the common grape vine Vitis vinifera, with over 5000 cultivars of the species producing a range of flavours. Along with wine, grapes are also used to ...

One task, though, seems stubbornly resistant to being ceded to robots: picking grapes. Like all soft fruit, grapes have a narrow window of ripeness, and are prone to being bruised or crushed if ...

They're still hand-picking grapes like it's 1960 ... there's the Ripassa Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore. Wine geeks call it "baby Amarone". It's got the same idea, but a bit lighter on the ...

They have referred growers to their insurers. Frost-hit farmers in Australia's largest wine-grape growing region have been denied financial aid by the South Australian government. Freezing ...

Passito is when grapes are dried in a drying process called appassimento in Italian and it is most commonly practiced, in regards to dry wines, in a wine area called Valpolicella in the Veneto ...

Accordini Ripasso Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2004 ... The recioto process uses semi-dried grapes to impart a sweet-plum or cherry edge, although this Amarone della Valpolicella is a drier ...