Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. The wine industry of Piedmont, as with virtually every other ...

This region of Mexico has 500 years of wine-making history and the impressive varietals to prove it. Plan a visit before it ...

Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, and his first book, Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is ...

THOSE WHO GROW and make pinot noir know it to be a fickle mistress, a maddening grape that prefers a region on the distant edge of viticultural viability. It barely ripens and only rarely results in a ...

A deep dive into Nebbiolo: From Roero’s elegance to Barolo’s power, a blind tasting in Alba revealed the striking contrasts of this noble grape. Few wine regions in the world offer the kind of deep, ...

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. Yet despite ...

After a trip to Italy and southern France, Joe and Yvette Kirwin decided it was time for a change of pace. European food culture is calm and intimate, they said --different from the "go, go, go" of ...

Luke Lambert in the Yarra Valley makes fine syrahs and chardonnays. But he wants to grow just one grape, make one wine and do it all himself. By Eric Asimov YARRA GLEN, Australia — In an unassuming ...