Piedmont Wine Magazine

In January 2015, winter was in full grip of the Piedmontese hills and the abundant snowfalls brought very good water reserves to the soils. These abundant snowfalls together with very mild spring temperatures caused the vegetation cycle to start earlier,...

When my wife and I decided to give up our life in Hamburg and move to Piedmont in Italy, we hardly thought about the weather there. Of course, if you live in Hamburg, you will not often spoiled by nice...

Barolo 2013 The 2013 wine year in the Langhe, as almost everywhere in Piedmont, was characterized by an unusually high volume of precipitation in spring, which forced the winegrowers to take a lot of action. Luckily, the summer that followed...

The 2017 wine year in Italy and Piedmont was the warmest and driest year since temperatures and precipitation have been measured. This year 2017 presented the winemakers with great challenges because it was a year with enormous heat, which began...

Piedmont as a wine region Piedmont is one of the most important wine-growing regions in Italy and in the world. Piedmont has acquired this reputation in recent decades primarily through its impressive Barolo and Barbaresco wines. But Piedmont also stands...

The 2013 harvest in Piedmont will be remembered as a "vintage event", because the harvest started, on average, 15 days late compared to the last decade and only in ended November. The vegetation cycle of the vines was particularly affected...