News Crisis doesn’t affect the blazon: the most desired wines are from Bordeaux. For Italy, Sassicaia As many as seven great Bordeaux wines in Wine-Searcher’s “top ten”. Château Mouton Rothschild guide, Tenuta San Guido’s icon is No. 3 on the podium London, 29.04.2024
News “Limito” combines “land art” and viticulture to become the largest vineyard-labyrinth in the world It was designed by the Fernando Bernardi Landscape Architecture Studio and will be placed in Marco Carpineti’s Tenuta Antoniana, in Lazio Bassiano, 03.05.2024
News Young people appreciate and buy wine, but they are looking for a more recreational than cultural approach Independent WineGlass Marketing studio: the new generations are not attracted by classic tastings, they look for informal consumption opportunities Napa, 02.05.2024
News MARKET NO.1 USA, imports from Italy are growing (slightly), but wine sales are decreasing (-9.5%) SipSource and Customs data for the first three months of 2024 according to the Osservatorio Unione Italiana Vini – Uiv Roma, 02.05.2024
News HEROIC VITICULTURE The “veteran” Cave Mont Blanc and the wines refined at high altitude: a growing trend Morgex, 02.05.2024
News BETWEEN ITALY AND SLOVENIA Wine as a “bridge” of union of the first “Capitale Europea della Cultura Transfrontaliera” 2025 Gorizia, 01.05.2024
News CAGLIARI (MAY 30-31) Markets, culture, biodiversity, regulations: the “blend” of the 77th Assoenologi Conference in Sardinia Professionals from enterprises, business, institutions and research will discuss and interact, as President Riccardo Cotarella stated, “to reverse negative trends” Cagliari, 28.04.2024
News Trentodoc records a 2023 that is positive in value (+3%): Italy remains the main market Stefano Fambri, president Trento Doc Institute: “we can be satisfied”. Decline in volume is 2%, export at 15% Trento, 26.04.2024
News THE CURIOSITY Co-branding, Tannico and the Vermentino di Sardegna produced together with the Argiolas label Serdiana, 24.04.2024
News Sicily, Italy’s second-largest vineyard (and No. 1 for organic) grows, driven by its white wines Unicredit-Nomisma Wine Monitor numbers in the launch of “Sicilia en Primeur” 2024, May 9-11 in Cefalù, directed by Assovini Sicilia Palermo, 29.04.2024
News FINE WINES The wine auctions market in 2023 showed very slight growth compared to 2022. Romanée-Conti dominated Sotheby’s report, the Italian “blue chips”: Masseto, Gaja, Giacomo Conterno, Bruno Giacosa, Giuseppe Rinaldi, Quintarelli, Antinori and Dal Forno New York, 25.04.2024
News WINE & CLIMATE Vineyards light up with candles again against frost. In South Tyrol, at Abbazia di Novacella Fires between the rows with buds already on the vines as nighttime temperatures dropped a few degrees below zero NOVACELLA, 26.04.2024
News Naples, RadiciVive supports “Vigna Resilience”, the educational vineyard for suburban kids A community-serving environmental restoration project that promotes new forms of integration and education by enhancing a brownfield site Naples, 24.04.2024
News METEO Frost in North, snow in Center, drought in South: bad spring weather puts agriculture in crisis Coldiretti: situation in the countryside pictures an Italy literally split in two by the effects of climate change Rome, 22.04.2024
News THE ANNIVERSARY The first time the word “Prosecco” was written on the label: 100 years ago with Etile Carpenè, in 1924 The anniversary celebrated by Carpenè-Malvolti, with the tribute from the Minister of Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, a few days ago, at Vinitaly 2024 Verona, 20.04.2024
News Vineyards, “no to the indiscriminate use of explants”. To reiterate it Unione Italiana Vini - Uiv No demand in Italy, but we talk about it. Frescobaldi: “the old planting premiums have favored the abandonment of the hill for the plain” Varese, 23.04.2024
News The Museo del Vino of Torgiano turns 50 between events and photographic exhibitions The most prestigious wine-themed collection in our country was founded on April 23,1974 by Giorgio and Maria Grazia Lungarotti Torgiano, 23.04.2024
News “Il Veronelli” is born, physical and symbolic place of the cultural heritage of Luigi Veronelli A “Cenacle” in the Ex Convento dei Neveri in Bergamo, dedicated to the great legacy of the “father” of Italian food and wine criticism and journalism Bariano, 19.04.2024
News ACTUALITY 22% of Italy’s vineyards are organic, but wine purchases do not take off Rome, 20.04.2024
News THE CURIOSITY Wine is tasted on the open sea: partnership between Msc Crociere and Italian Sommelier Association Renewal of the agreement between the No.1 company in Europe and Ais, with many job opportunities for young professionals Verona, 22.04.2024
News THE NEWS All about the life of a bottle in one “click”: Meregalli Group bets on the Blockchain Monza, 19.04.2024
News MARKETS Export, Italian wine regains a slight smile: signs of growth from the USA to the East Roma, 22.04.2024
News MARKETS Fine wines are still down, but there are signs of recovery. Top value: San Leonardo and Sassicaia The eWibe Fine Wines stock market index: Tuscany up +1.5% in the 12 month period, but down -0.5% in the first quarter of 2024. France is growing again Milano, 19.04.2024
News THE TREND 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 LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION Slight recovery of consumption in large-scale retail: reds arein crisis, sparkling wines good 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%) 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 Verona, 17.04.2024
News Italian wine seeks growth after initial positive signs picked up at Vinitaly 2024 97,000 visitors to the fair, 30% foreigners (USA, Germany, Uk, China and Canada in the lead). In 2025, appointment in Verona, April 6-9 Verona, 18.04.2024
News 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 AWARDS 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” 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 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 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