Pinot Grigio is scorned by many wine snobs, ... Innocuous and uninteresting are two words I've heard so often I half expect to find them on a back label: "An innocuous, uninteresting wine.

If you're new to drinking wine or simply can't decipher what those frilly words on the label mean, here's a quick guide to explaining everything.

The best of these weightless wines still manage to deliver on taste, and the 2008 Francis Coppola Emerald Label Pinot Grigio (about $13 at wine shops and supermarkets) is one of those.

As pinot grigio took over from chardonnay as the most popular white wine in the global mass market, plantings of vineyards in Italy grew to 24,501 hectares in 2018 from 3,413 hectares in 1990.

Though the spelling is different and the bottles are usually in different sections of the wine store, Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are the same grape. Not only that, but they're also the same grape ...