Picking grapes in the vineyards of Lucca, the writer encounters gentle confidences, curious traditions and a precarious living for the tenant farmers.

If these grapes have a unifying characteristic, it is acidity and it allows them to work with high-acid foods, most notably ...

Workers pick Ansonica grapes from Italy's Giglio Island. On a windy day in September, I thought I would be taking a gentle walk through a newly-revived vineyard on Italy’s Giglio Island to see a ...

Historic wine storage caves cut into the hillside in Barile, Basilicata. Across Campania and Basilicata, the Aglianico grape commands attention in any discussion of serious red wines. Thick ...