Native Wine Grapes of Italy (by Ian D’Agata)
Winner of the 2014 Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year award, Native Wine Grapes of Italy (NWGI) is generally considered to be not just the bible of Italian grapes and wines but one of the best wine books ever written. It details with precision and scientific rigor found nowhere else all you need to know on Italy’s myriad native grapes, with carefully revised and documented historical references on the grapes (the bane of practically all wine web sites that report much erroneous, anecdotal, information on this subject), their exact origins, meanings of their names and parentages.
Italy’s Wine Grape Terroirs (by Ian D’Agata)
An even more academic and scientific-level book, Ian’s follow-up to NWGI is a tome detailing the terroirs single grape varieties are associated with to a degree that has never been attempted to before or after. Grape varieties such as Aglianico, Fiano, Nebbiolo, Ribolla Gialla, Forastera, Pecorino, Sangiovese and Verdicchio, and many others, have the terroirs and wines they have been associated with over the centuries analyzed in great detail. For example, whereas we speak generically of a Ribolla Gialla wine, this book details with precision the differences between the terroirs of Buttrio, Dolegna, Oslavia, and Rosazzo, for example, and it follows, the different Ribolla Gialla wines that are made there. That’s same in-depth, scientific- and research-rich approach is taken with all the other grape varieties included in the book.
Italy’s Grapes and Wines Region by Region (by Ian D’Agata and Michele Longo)
This award-winning book (Gourmand International Book Awards 2022) is an easy-to-use, reader friendly paperback study guide that details not just all of Italy’s native grapes but the international varieties too. All you need to know about Italy’s wine grapes you can find in here in a remarkably accurate, in-depth but direct style.
Barolo Terroir: Grapes Crus People Places (by Ian D’Agata and Michele Longo)
In what is an internationally, multi-awarded book that has been universally assessed as the definitive book on Barolo and its wines, over 500 pages of never-before published information on: the many Nebbiolo biotypes (including the most complete and detailed description of Nebbiolo Rosé ever written); Nebbiolo clones; geology of Barolo; a complete, detailed description of each single Barolo cru (MGA) and its wines with producer anecdotes and interviews; maps and tables.
Italian Wine Terroirs (by Ian D’Agata and Michele Longo)
Yet another award-winning book (Gourmand International Book Awards 2025, “Best European Wine Book”) is also an easy-to-use, reader friendly paperback study guide that discusses the wines, denominations and specific terroirs of all of Italy’s wine grapes. It is a rather big tome full of details and information found nowhere else.
