I keep my eye on grape varieties getting attention and for selfish reasons am always looking for great value wines I can add to my everyday drinking shopping list. Barbera is such a grape. In the past ...

Everyone loves an underdog, and from Italy’s northerly region of Piedmont comes the story of Barbera, a heartwarming “local boy makes good” kind of tale. In the minds of most American consumers of ...

Zinfandel is an obvious choice to pair with pizza, pasta or burgers, but I prefer to grab barbera instead. This Italian black grape variety hails from the land of Piedmont in northern Italy, which is ...

Clutching a giant cluster of grapes in each hand, Davide Trezzi thrusts his arms toward the Green Bluff sky. “Look at this,” he says, carrying the deep purple barbera grapes as he walks between rows ...

MORE TIME TO TRAVEL The Frasca La Guaragna Winery in Piedmont hopes to realize the untapped potential of the Nizza Monferrato ...

As wine-growing areas go, you wouldn’t think Baja’s Santo Tomás Valley would have anything in common with Northern Italy’s Piedmont region. But they are both home to nebbiolo and barbera grapes and — ...

Piedmontese wines are marketed three ways: by location, by grape variety and by both. A barbera d’Alba, for example, is pretty straightforward. It’s a wine from Alba made from the barbera grape. But ...

Got a minute? Need an inexpensive wine to get you through to the weekend? Want to learn a little at the same time? Every week Gazette wine critic Bill Zacharkiw recommends a wine and talks a little ...

If you want the best barbera in Shenandoah Valley, see Dick Cooper — or “Mr. Barbera,” as he is known around Amador County. Over the past 30 years, Cooper has provided cuttings, grapes and advice for ...

It’s time to write about one of our all-time favorite food wines – barbera. The prototype of this wine comes from the Piedmont area of Italy and is labeled with both the grape varietal and the place ...

Given Italian food's ubiquity, it's curious (and a bit of a shame) that more non-Italians don't drink barbera with their pizzas and muffuletta sandwiches. The wine is a trattoria staple in the old ...