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 ...