Italy has a lot of different wine grapes, and I mean a lot. Some counts put it at more than sixteen hundred different varietals, many with deep roots in the historical record. Here are three unique grapes grown almost exclusively in their own corners of Italy, each one a piece of living history.
Kermit spent a lot of time in the 1970s combing through the northern Rhône, a region given scant attention then in France and abroad, where the stars...