There are two entirely different worlds of Pinot Grigio, and American imbibers are slowly catching on to the better one. True, there is an awful lot of highly indifferent PG sloshing around, and its ...

America's fickle wine drinkers have a new darling. Their long-term love affair with Chardonnay fading, they've fallen for Pinot Grigio. It's become a chic alternative for aperitifs, and for diners ...

Pinot grigio’s heritage in Italy does not stretch back to Romulus and Remus, although it may seem that way. Even now, pinot grigio is not even the most planted white grape in the country. An also-ran ...

New types of grapes begin either as a cross or a mutation. A horticulturist would say pinot grigio is a “spontaneous mutation” of pinot noir that just sort of happened one day. Hundreds of years ago, ...

I’ve always been a fan of underdogs. The horse with 50 to 1 odds. (Remember Mind That Bird, the 2009 winner of the Kentucky Derby?) A number 16 seed miraculously knocking out a top seed in the first ...

Pinot Gris (or Grigio, if Italian) is grown around the world these days, but the most significant sources are northern Italy, France’s Alsace region, and Oregon. Much of it, especially in Italy, goes ...

Why Italy’s most ageworthy and complex white wines may actually come from the south, plus the essential bottles to buy now.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Much Italian Pinot Grigio is about as exciting as Smartwater. It’s too often a flimsy little summer cottage of a wine, no more memorable than that last cute puppy post that ...

One man’s vino is another woman’s wein. In Alto Adige, the Italian wine region also known as Sudtirol by the locals who drink “wein,” multicultural bilingualism comes with the territory. This is Italy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jillian Dara is a freelance journalist covering wine and spirits. The style of London Dry Gin has undoubtedly defined the category ...