Author Elisabetta Tosi

If you consider yourself a real wine lover, you cannot ignore Recioto della Valpolicella. It is not simply a “sweet wine;” it’s a sensorial experience, an emotion that originated in ancient times in Valpolicella.

“Here we are,” I thought when I got off the bus at Dinastia Vivanco Wine Museum in Rioja, Spain. “Exactly like six years ago, when everything started...” No, wait, that’s not precisely true. At that...

Do people choose organic wines for ethical reasons or aesthetics?

Sicily is a cornucopia of beauty, art, history, landscape, delightful food and wine. Here are three things you absolutely cannot miss, if you are going to travel in Western Sicily.

Four friends take wine grapes back to their mountain origins -- with implications for the future of viticulture

Oak-ageing for wine can now be calibrated scientifically with a new measurement of “tannic potential” of oak barrels.  In order to demonstrate how different barrels can alter the taste, the researcher...

As usual, before Vinitaly my email box is full of invitations to events: press conferences, round tables, seminars, workshops, etc. And as usual, due to lack of time, I have to decline the most of them. But...

In Italy, where champagne imports reach more than seven million bottles annually, many wine producers who are in love with this product have tried over the years to create something similar. But France is...