Terroir Academy

At over 500 officially recognized different native grapes and counting, roughly 30% of the world’s wine grapes are Italian; to help you fully grasp the significance of that statement, just keep in mind that France, Spain and Greece (or Portugal, depending whom you choose to believe), the three countries that have the next most native grapes, don’t come anywhere close to Italy’s figure even if you were to add the wine grapes of all those three countries together.

In this article, Ian D'Agata will guide you to the magical mystery tour of 24 fantastic Italian native wine grapes and their wines that you absolutely need to get to know.

In this article Ian talks about one very interesting and super-rare native grape variety in Rueda: Verdejo Malcorta.
by Ian D'Agata

In this article Robert Millman talks about whether to sell or drink a bottle of rare fine wine when someone has hold it for a very long time.
by Robert Millman

by Robert Millman

In this article, Ting gives 5 possible ways to invest on fines wines.
by Ting Ding

This review is a concise presentation of Cabernet Gernischt in China in terms of history, potential, and the characteristics of grapevine and wines. Ian also discusses at length why Caberbet Gernischt ought to be considered a Chinese grape variety.
by Ian D’Agata

In this first article of a two part series, Ian gives an in-depth introduction to Cabernet Franc: its origin, terroir preferences and wines in France and Italy.
by Ian D'Agata

In this short article, Robert Millman analyses the trend of inflation and gradually narrowing ranges in wine reviewing and scoring, as well as the relationship between scores and wine prices.
by Robert Millman

In this article the author is going to give readers an insight view of some changes during wine aging process and a tip when opening a bottle of aged wine.
by Ting Ding

In this article, Robert Millman shares more thoughts on wine classifications, beyond just Bordeaux.
by Robert Millman