ITALIA, dolce Italia! What a land. Where else can you find a land so rich and diverse in landscape, in culture, in food and in wine!
It is indeed challenging to even try to depict Italy in words

Although vines had been cultivated from the wild vitis vinifera grape since the dawn of man, it wasn’t until the Greek colonization that wine-making flourished. In fact, viticulture was initially brought to Sicily and southern Italy by the Greeks, and was well-established when the extensive Greek colonization transpired around 800 BC.

It was during the Roman defeat of the Carthaginians – acknowledged masters of wine-making – in the 2nd century BC that Italian wine production began to further develop.