Ornellaia/3: What to Expect from a Great Wine: Tasting the 2012 Vintage What can you expect in a bottle of Ornellaia from this typically Mediterranean vintage? And what qualities does winemaker Axel ...

Tuscany’s Tenuta dell’Ornellaia is renowned for its flagship offering Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore, but lately its second wine, Le Serre Nuove, has been garnering outsized attention from retailers and ...

Ornellaia/5: Four BDX Grapes: What Each Contributes to the Wine What does each grape variety bring to the wine? Winemaker Axel Heinz talks Cabernet, Merlot, Cab Franc and Petit Verdot. Tags: Northern ...

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find navigating the wine aisle of your local supermarket a bit overwhelming. I don’t know ...

Today there are 65 wine estates that call Bolgheri home, and some of the wines produced here, such as Sassicaia from Tenuta San Giudo, Ornellaia and Grattamacco are legendary. There are two basic ...

The vineyards of Ornellaia were virtually untouched ... The concern is that such news can have ripple effects throughout the wine market. "When there’s dramatic news from a wine region ...

Back to the cost: If you want a more affordable alternative, Sayre recommends another Italian wine producer, called Ornellaia, which is famous for its Tuscan Cabernet-based wines. Their Le Volte ...

Any good-quality white wine can be used for cooking. Don’t discount off-dry styles, which add a lovely complexity to savoury dishes. Use white wine to marinate pale meats such as pork or poultry ...

Cheap vinegar, produced from inferior red wine, will give poor results to your finished dish. Buy good quality, aromatic vinegar with a complex flavour. The label will often specify which type of ...

Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week. I tried this wine club and have to say the hit rate of solid wines was extremely high for my moderately experienced palate.

“In 1995, that was when everything changed,” she says. “There was a France-versus-Italy tasting of the 1992 vintage at Vinitaly [the massive wine trade show that occurs yearly in Verona]. Sassicaia, ...

Bernadette Machard de Gramont is a freelance writer specializing in food, wine, and kitchen products, specifically cookware. With a culinary degree, a master's in journalism, and nearly 20 years ...