Possible Clues:

• Port on the NW coast of Italy
• Italian city, she familiar to you, did ya say?
• City of Italy
• Christopher Columbus' city of birth
• Leader of gourmets turned up excellent port
• Sail Columbus raised here
• Sail when half-cut — being in a state in India
• Sail from where Columbus started
• Salami option
• Explorer John Cabot's birthplace