Franco Bernabei News Today

Tuscany produces more than Chianti and other famous reds. Try these Tuscan whites.

Anthony Rose joins Federico Giuntini Massetti for a retrospective of Selvapiana Bucerchiale, the great single-vineyard Chianti Rufina.

This is a story about a class of wines that did not exist until the late 1960s and, to emphasise their appeal and quality, I will share a somewhat embarrassing occasion. A reader of this column quite...

It was a deep irony that when Maria Grazia ‘Lella’ Lombardi became the only woman to score a World Championship point – in only her second GP, in Spain in a works March 751 in 1975 – it was actually only half a point. This was the race stopped prematurely at only 29 laps after Rolf Stommelen’s leading Hill had lost its rear wing and crashed heavily, killing onlookers.

The Capezzana estate continues Carmignano’s delicious, centuries-old tradition of blending Sangiovese and Cabernet Gaddo, Filippo and Beatrice are among the Contini Bonacossi family members carrying on winemaking work that dates to Renaissance times while continuing to innovate with new bottlings. (Robert Camuto) By ...