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 Alcohol-free wines, growing market. And 36 % of Italians are interested in trying them But producers in Italy are forced to produce them abroad because a national standard is lacking. Swg and Uiv-Vinitaly Wine Observatory data Verona, 16.04.2024
News Slight recovery of consumption in large-scale retail: reds arein crisis, sparkling wines good The Circana study for Vinitaly: after a difficult 2023 the downturn is still there, but the decline lessens in the first quarter of 2024 (-2.2%) Verona, 16.04.2024
News CLIMATE CHANGE 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 VINITALY Young people link wine to sociability (67.7%), over-65s drink it with meals (79.1%) 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 THE ANALYSIS Italian wine holds up, making 16 billion euros, but no alcohol and consumption are the big challenge Industry numbers by Osservatorio Federvini in collaboration with Nomisma and Tradelab. In the U.S., U.K. and Germany, alcohol-free wines are growing Verona, 15.04.2024
News Tribute to Piero Antinori from the Grandi Cru d’Italia Committee: he made the history of enology Evening event in Verona dedicated to one of the leading figures of Italian wine in the world: “I have been a custodian of the winery” Verona, 15.04.2024
News WINE & POLITICS Premier Giorgia Meloni to WineNews: “wine is part of our identity as Italians” 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” Reflections of the president of the world organization, at “Wine Ministerial Meeting”, in Franciacorta: “the vine an instrument for change” Franciacorta, 12.04.2024
News TRADE 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 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 COUNTERFEITING “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 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 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 MARKETS Campo alla Sughera (Knauf family) continues to focus on Bolgheri: purchased 3 more hectares Bolgheri, 09.04.2024
News FAMILY BUSINESSES “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 Roma, 07.04.2024
News POLITICS IN THE GLASS “EU must intervene to stop Belgian decree on alcohol advertising” Federvini warning, concerned about Belgian proposal to introduce a health warning in all advertising messages, including labels 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 “Villa Cordevigo Gaudenzia” 2019 from Veneto winery Vigneti Villabella is international revelation at “Concours Mondial de Bruxelles” Brussels, 28.03.2024
News MOURNING Friuli Venezia Giulia’s wine industry says goodbye to one of its noble fathers: Marco Felluga 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 André Esteves (Argiano) and Alejandro Bulgheroni (Dievole and Poggio Landi) are among billionaires that own Estates in Italy New York, 02.04.2024
News COLLABORATION The Italia del Vino Consortium continues to expand with Roberta Corrà Roma, 02.04.2024
News 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 Duca di Salaparuta, 200 years with the art of Renato Guttuso, Mimmo Pintacuda and Emilio One of Sicily’s oldest wineries, founded by the Alliata nobles, celebrates history and Bagheria, a “wine-cultural terroir” of wines and intellectuals Bagheria, 31.03.2024
News AWARDS 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 THE SCENARIO 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 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 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 THE EVENT “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 WINE AND COLLECTING 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