Italian Wine Guide

Italian Wine Guide: A north-to-south journey through Italy’s wine regions, grapes, terroir and vintage influence Italian wine rewards curiosity more than almost any other category. It is not always the easiest place to start. Labels often lead with place rather than grape, there are hundreds of native varieties, and one region can feel entirely different […]

Our French Wine Guide

Your French wine guide — classification, terroir, vintage and what makes each region distinctive France is easier to understand once you stop reading the label as a brand statement and start reading it as a map. This is why French wine is taught through region, appellation, site and classification. In practical terms, that means Bordeaux, […]

Do Sulphites in Wine Cause Headaches?

If you’ve ever had a wine headache and blamed the sulphites, you’re in good company. It’s one of the most repeated claims in wine — and one of the least accurate. Those two words on the back of the bottle — contains sulphites — sound like a warning, but they’re really just a legal labelling […]