Our Italian Wine Web Site

Let us introduce theitalianwineconnection.com . We're a new site devoted to the physical, spiritual, medicinal, cultural, and intellectual pleasures of the fermented Italian grape, but always in moderation. Come visit us often, what you see is only the beginning. Just so you know who we are, we don't pretend to do everything. Even if we sometimes love The Beatles, we don't have strawberry wine, we can't dance the dutty wine, and we don't sell beer and liquor, or even wine. Our focus is on Italian wine.

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Italian Grapes

Wide-ranging data on Italy's own wine varieties. There are so many indigenous Italian grape varieties found nowhere else on earth that we have provided an alphabetical listing. Some of these relatively unknown grapes lead to excellent wines, often, but not always, at prices much less than that of their international cousins. You may find some bargains.

International Grapes

Comprehensive data on the most important international wine grapes that are widely grown in Italy. We are including indigenous Italian grape varieties such as Sangiovese that have become international. Many varieties have been in Italy so long that they have taken on an Italian character. Some of the others are relatively new transplants but promise to become part of the Italian wine world.

Glossaries

Two very broad wine glossaries. We have included a glossary of basic wine terms some of which have been given an Italian twist and a glossary of Italian wine terms that should be of help when you are faced with an Italian wine label. The basic glossary is cross-referenced, we believe in hypertext. For your convenience, both glossaries includes a clickable alphabetical index at the top and bottom of every page.

Top Wines

This section contains descriptions of Italy's top wines, region by region. We include information on their history, grape varieties, vinfication style, and aging. For your convenience we are including serving suggestions. Why ruin or downgrade a great wine by serving it too cold or too hot?

Articles

Our unmatched collection of Italian wine articles, presently divided into three sections, Introductory guest articles, intermediate guest articles, and our own articles. For your convenience, we include several navigation options. If you are familiar with our authors, simply click the author list and then access the articles via the author name and article title. You can also click on the individual sections. Then you have two choices: you can click on the list at the top of the page. Or you can read our summary of each article, followed by a short quote from the article, and then click. Once you find that you like an article, you'll be accessing the author list. Enough about navigation.

Our wastebasket is full of articles that didn't make the cut. While we don't always agree with all the authors's statements, we feel that each and every article is worth including in our collection.

Reviews

If you don't have time to read our individual wine articles you can get the gist of most of them in these reviews. We tell you what we like and what we don't like about the wines tasted with a variety of foods. A simple click sends you to the associated article.

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