Montepulciano is quite frankly heaven for wine lovers. This stunning hilltop Tuscan town is ridiculously beautiful and it is just filled with wine. Wineries, red wine, white wine, wine cellars, oak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just don’t confuse the grape variety with the appellation of the same name. You might confuse Montepulciano, the grape variety ...

Chili season is here and Italy’s Montepulciano d’Abruzzo makes a fine pairing with any mildly spicy tomato-based chili. One small caveat: Italy’s wines are as delicious as they are confusing and it’s ...

For thousands of years, people have been making great wine in Tuscany. Known in Italian as “Toscana,” some of these wines remain some of the most revered — and most expensive — wines in the world. But ...

Making sense of some wines can sometimes seem as confusing as many of the convoluted plots in murder mysteries by Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle. But once you make sense of it all, knowing more ...

Steadfast and reserved, the region of Le Marche in central Italy is celebrating two 50th anniversaries this year, one in honor of a locally storied red wine, the other for a white made of a familiar ...

When this column happens to fall on an important holiday or event, I love to have some fun and tie it into the world of wine. Alas, I made an unbreakable resolution this year not to mix politics and ...

WASHINGTON — Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is one Italy’s classic red wines, and has unquestionably helped Tuscany retain its privileged place on the wine map. It comes from the vineyards that surround ...

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is not having a midlife crisis. Not long after the DOC (Denominazione di origine controllata) system was implemented 52 years ago, in 1966 in Italy, Vino Nobile di ...

Mellow tannins and acidity give the 2011 Avignonesi Rosso di Montepulciano a plush texture. Avignonesi’s new ownership has delivered two delightful Montepulciano wines wrapped in nature. In 2007, ...

Just pronouncing the lilting name Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has an enjoyable and lyrical quality. Be aware, however that there are different wines that contain the term “Montepulciano,” so what ...