rare wines

Carefully selected plots, ten-year-long lees aging, and zero dosage. This time we will discover two cuvées that will take us to the hills of Oltrepò Pavese and on the high-altitude vineyards of Trentino

VINEYARD | Roeno winery is located in Brentino Belluno, a small town in the province of Verona, very close to Trentino. It is a real borderland, marked by the Doc Valdadige and the newly-born Doc Terra dei Forti. Its proximity to...

VINEYARD | There is a very simple reason that has led for so many years Italy's major sparkling wine wineries to shop in the Versa Valley. Here, Pinot Nero grapes are a cut above. They combine freshness, salinity and structure. We are...

Our journey to the discovery of Rare Wines kicks off. Every week, we will talk about two wines from small quality productions. This time we will hit the two biggest Italian islands at high altitude: Etna and Mamoiada, two amazing...

  Vineyards We are in the easternmost corner of Liguria, the Colli di Luni, the vineyards look out over the Gulf of La Spezia, protected behind by the peaks of the Apuan Alps. The position is quite unique, between sea...

VINEYARD|There are crus, the lieu-dit, the geographical units as well as additional geographical mentions. And then there is sas ghiradas. Yes, that's right: even the village of Mamoiada, through the Mamojà producers association, has created its own classification of vineyards,...

VINEYARD|You look around and you think that you have landed on Mars. Higher up there is only lava, and, rarely, some plants. We are on Mount Etna, above Bronte and west of Randazzo. The panorama is wide, to say the...

Small artisans, vignerons, garagistes, as well as top-notch selections created by solid companies that produce a handful of bottles will be the protagonists of the new weekly guide on rare wines by Gambero Rosso. Find out more.