News Wine and exports, sprint start for Italy in 2024: in January +13.4% in value and +11% in volume Istat data analyzed by WineNews. Sign of confidence for the sector. With destocking in world markets (perhaps) becoming a reality Rome, 16.04.2024
News Insurance policies for vineyards are worth 2.3 billion euros. Active defense, however, is the future ISMEA, in 2023, insured wine companies increased +2%, but it did not compensate for the decrease registered in the rest of Italy Verona, 17.04.2024
News Young people link wine to sociability (67.7%), over-65s drink it with meals (79.1%) Enpaia and Censis present the Agricultural World Observatory on the relationship between consumption and different generations Verona, 17.04.2024
News THE TREND The unstoppable advance of white wines, and the slowdown of reds, in the spotlight at Vinitaly A modern-day phenomenon in Ismea numbers, in Confagricoltura’s analysis, and in the case histories of Valpolicella, Marche, Friuli, and Maremma Verona, 17.04.2024
News THE SCENARIO Italian wine seeks growth after initial positive signs picked up at Vinitaly 2024 Verona, 18.04.2024
News Italian wine holds up, making 16 billion euros, but no alcohol and consumption are the big challenge
News AWARDS Tribute to Piero Antinori from the Grandi Cru d’Italia Committee: he made the history of enology Verona, 15.04.2024
News WINE & POLITICS Premier Giorgia Meloni to WineNews: “wine is part of our identity as Italians” In her brief “journey” among the producers attending Vinitaly 2024, we asked her whether the sector needs protection or promotion more: “both” Verona, 15.04.2024
News Alison Napjus: “US remains very important for Italian wine, but consumption slows” For the Senior Editor of “Wine Spectator”, “in the future, the connection with food should be promoted more”. The territory of the moment? Sicily Verona, 14.04.2024
News CURRENT NEWS Luigi Moio (Oiv): “it is not possible to think of a future without wine” Franciacorta, 12.04.2024
News Italy-China bilateral meeting in Verona: wine is a symbol of economic and cultural cooperation Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani with Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao. Our wine exports to China are worth more than 100 million Verona, 12.04.2024
News IDEAS OF THE FUTURE Trabocco, Abruzzo bubbles between territory, “pop” wine and winemakers’ remuneration Reflections around the collective brand linked to the iconic trabocchi already narrated by D’Annunzio, at “Vincontri” by Vinco winery Ortona, 11.04.2024
News CONTEST Vermentino’s “sprint”: here are the ten best tastings of “Grand Prix” No. 5 The event promoted by the Tuscan Maremma Wine Consortium goes on record. Vermentino on the rise, in a predominantly “red” region Castiglion della Pescaia, 10.04.2024
News “Operation Bacchus”, first conviction in Supreme Court for fraud against great wines of Tuscany At WineNews, lawyer Marco Giuri (Studio Giuri in Florence) comments, “the work of control between consortia, companies and institutions is essential” Florence, 10.04.2024
News CURRENT NEWS Italian wine cooperatives and the future, including climate, costs, logistics and access to credit Luca Rigotti (president of wine sector Confcooperative): “Problem No. 1 is the cost of money”. 40 cooperatives among top 117 companies by turnover Milan, 10.04.2024
News CHARITY In auction at Sotheby’s for charity the large formats of Ornellaia 2021 “Vendemmia d’Artista” The valuable lots will be auctioned between May 22 and June 5. Proceeds will go to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Bolgheri, 09.04.2024
News The big names in Italian wine were economically stable in 2023. The Pambianco report Cantine Riunite & CIV (and Gruppo Italiano Vini - GIV), Argea, Italian Wine Brands and Caviro were leaders in turnover (all more than 400 million euros) Milano, 09.04.2024
News Campo alla Sughera (Knauf family) continues to focus on Bolgheri: purchased 3 more hectares The company expands and consolidates, following last years’ financial results of double-digit growth Bolgheri, 09.04.2024
News “Marilisa Allegrini” is born, the group that unites Villa Della Torre, Poggio Al Tesoro and San Polo Leading it, with daughters Carlotta and Caterina, is Marilisa Allegrini. Who also seems to want to say, paraphrasing Louis XIV, “I am Allegrini” Milan, 09.04.2024
News INTERVIEWS “Without wine, Italy would be poorer, from all points of view. It must be defended and improved” Roma, 08.04.2024
News LATEST NEWS ISMEA report on Italian wine: turnover 13.8 billion euros; exports worth 7.8 billion euros; production down In depth survey of the wine sector: thanks to sparkling wines, white wines are growing more than reds, and PDO exports have increased in value (5.2 billion euros) Roma, 07.04.2024
News POLITICS IN THE GLASS “EU must intervene to stop Belgian decree on alcohol advertising” Rome, 08.04.2024
News AWARDS It is Italian the best rosé wine in the world: first on the podium among more than 1,200 labels Brussels, 28.03.2024
News MOURNING Friuli Venezia Giulia’s wine industry says goodbye to one of its noble fathers: Marco Felluga Born in 1927, he was among the first to realize (like his brother Livio) the qualitative potential of Collio Udine, 03.04.2024
News WINE AND BUSINESS Travel retail, a growing sector. And the big names in Italian wine are still investing in it New “Sparkling Bar” signed Contadi Castaldi and Chef Express (Cremonini Group) opens at Milan Bergamo airport (Oro al Serio) Oro al Serio, 03.04.2024
News RANKINGS Bernard Arnault (LVMH) tops the Forbes list of richest people in the world New York, 02.04.2024
News COLLABORATION The Italia del Vino Consortium continues to expand with Roberta Corrà 1.5 billion euros in turnover and 15% export share the 25 member companies have confirmed the GM of GIV president Roma, 02.04.2024
News THE STUDY Open weekends, young audiences and more and more experiences to come: the growth of wine tourism Report by Divinea: turnover at +11%, visitors willing to spend more. Italy leads in visits ahead of the US. Good seasonal adjustment Milan, 02.04.2024
News STORIES Duca di Salaparuta, 200 years with the art of Renato Guttuso, Mimmo Pintacuda and Emilio Bagheria, 31.03.2024
News From Cusumano to Ferragamo, the “Food & Travel Italia Wine Awards” crown Italy’s excellent wines The best wines, personalities of the year, luxury locations and ambassadors of taste: from Banfi to Setteponti, from Varvaglione to Ferrari Venaria Reale, 29.03.2024
News Climate change: more than 70% of wine-producing areas at risk by the end of the century In many areas, including in Italy, production could become unsustainable. Thus a study by the Universities of Bordeaux, Palermo and Burgundy Bordeaux, 28.03.2024
News HOT TOPICS 2023 was a challenge for wine in the mass retail trade, sales were down 3.3% (-2.8% on DOCs) The preview of the study “Circana for Vinitaly 2024”: Prosecco, Chianti, Lambrusco, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and Vermentino were the best sellers Verona, 26.03.2024
News THE RANKING From Bottega’s “Gold” to the bubbles of “La Marca”: the most sought-after Prosecco by Wine Searcher “Doro Nature” from “Le Vigne di Alice” completes the podium in a “Top 10” where the “classic” expressions of the most exported Italian PDO wine win Sidney, 26.03.2024
News “Wine Ministerial Meeting”: world wine policy meets in Italy In Brescia and Verona, from Franciacorta to Vinitaly, April 11-13, thanks to the Ministry of Agriculture and OIV Rome, 27.03.2024
News A dream auction to celebrate a century of life and 25 years in the wine business, with Pandolfini Among legendary vintages, large formats and unobtainable bottles, all the best of wine from Italy and France will be in the catalog from April 10-12 Florence, 18.03.2024
News IDEAS OF TERRITORY Mountains and wine, deep relationship. And now Nino Negri ages wine at 3,000 meters, in Valtellina The project is by the historic Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV) winery. The reflections of Paolo Cognetti, author of the book “The Eight Mountains” Bormio, 26.03.2024
News ANALYSIS U.S. first in consumption, sparkling wines boom: how the wine market has changed in 20 years Two decades of commitment for Istituto Grandi Marchi, which presented research on trends in Italian fine wines by Wine Monitor Nomisma Rome, 26.03.2024