Italian Wine Prep

By: Anthony Gismondi

Places

Italy is this year's featured country at the 45th Vancouver International Wine Festival, from Piedmont to Puglia and the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic Sea.

Italy is this year's featured country at the 45^th Vancouver International Wine Festival, from Piedmont to Puglia and the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic Sea. It is time to get excited about the theme country before you arrive at the festival or even afterwards while enjoying the wines you tasted or brought home. We've assembled two video playlists of our travels and interviews with Italian winegrowers and estates to get you in the mood. We also look at a very hot region (no pun intended), Sicily, in two particular articles that provide an overview.

VIDEO

In Conversation: Italian Wineries

Bisol - Prosecco

Bottega - Prosecco

Casa E. Mirafiore - Piedmont

Giovanni Rosso - Piedmont

Fontanabianca - Barbaresco

Luca della Vite - Brunello di Montalcino

Argiano - Brunello di Montalcino

Selle e Mosca - Sardegna

From the Dolomitic Alps to Puglia

Alois Lageder - Alto Adige

Antinori - Chianti Classico

Tignanello - Tuscany

Castello di Gabbiano - Chianti Classico

Castello della Sala - Umbria

Guada al Tasso - Bolgheri

Luce della Vite - Brunello di Montalcino

Pian della Vigne - Montalcino

Tomaresco - Puglia

FEATURE

Sicily DOC

Sicily: The Grapes

Written By: ag

Anthony Gismondi

Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America's most influential voices in wine. For over 30 years, he has been the wine columnist for The Vancouver Sun. The twice-weekly column is distributed across Canada through the Postmedia Network to millions of readers. In addition, Anthony hosts the BC Food & Wine Radio Show, broadcast in 25 markets across B.C. and available as a podcast on major platforms. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, attracting one million monthly users from 114 countries. It continues to be a valuable resource full of tasting notes, intelligent wine stories and videos for the trade and consumers. Conversations with wine personalities are available on his YouTube Channel.