Montepulciano d’Abruzzo has always been a wine with a good degree of popularity in the marketplace. And why not? It’s got deep color (often bright purple), offers aromas and flavors such as black plum ...

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 ...

If you enjoy Italian food and wine, then most likely you have ordered a bottle of Montepulciano de Abruzzo – the delightful fruity, soft, and dark colored wine from the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is ...

I wrote several months back about the Pinotage grape, one that's most closely associated with South Africa, and how it was being grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and then aged and bottled at ...

Italy—the world’s top wine-producing country—has 20 recognized wine region with Tuscany as possibly the best known and loved of the lot. Home to Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, ...

VAIL, Colorado -Talk about a bad rep. Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is known as cheap (in the bad sense), over-ripe, kinda sweet-tasting, red wine. Yes, many are just this, but there are also some big boys ...