News Vinitaly from Brussels to Verona to represent the importance of wine in Italy, the EU and the world Veronafiere top executives Bricolo and Danese, in launching edition 56: in Europe the sector is worth 45 billion, 1/3 thanks to Italian wine Brussels, 20.03.2024
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 Florence, 18.03.2024
News Mountains and wine, deep relationship. And now Nino Negri ages wine at 3,000 meters, in Valtellina
News ANALYSIS U.S. first in consumption, sparkling wines boom: how the wine market has changed in 20 years Rome, 26.03.2024
News INTERESTING FACTS “Ferrari doubled” at the Formula 1 in Melbourne, with reds from Maranello and Trentodoc Sainz and Leclerc and the first toast to the “double” with the bubbles from Ferrari Trento, official F.1 toast in a triumph Made in Italy Melbourne, 25.03.2024
News Wine “pills” in space, to contribute to the well-being of astronauts on long missions The challenge of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome project, together with Barberani’s Muffa Nobile Orvieto Doc Classico Superiore Calcaia Rome, 22.03.2024
News CURRENT NEWS Nomisma, Italian PDO and PGI wine exports exceed 5 billion euros: Prosecco is the “king” Bologna, 25.03.2024
News The future of Italian wine: rationalization, investments, knowledge of the markets, promotion Lamberto Frescobaldi’s speech at the opening of the 75th Academic Year of the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine in Florence Florence, 22.03.2024
News LATEST NEWS Equalitas and FederBio signed a Memorandum of Understanding for development of sustainable viticulture A permanent round table has been established to promote the culture and practice of sustainability in the wine supply chain Roma, 20.03.2024
News WINE BRANDS & TUSCANY Between Chianti Classico and Bolgheri over 9 million investments: Folonari looks to the future Under construction is the new winery of Tenute del Cabreo in Greve in Chianti, while Campo al Mare expands its vineyards Greve in Chianti, 15.03.2024
News Marco Caprai received the title of Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic at the Quirinale Producer awarded by President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella for project that, with Caritas, supports migrants among the vines Rome, 20.03.2024
News WINE COLLECTIBLES Pandolfini: the dream auction to celebrate a century of activity and 25 years in the wine world All the top Italian and French wines will be in the catalogue among legendary vintages, large formats and hard-to-find bottles to be auctioned in Florence, April 10th to 12th. Firenze, 18.03.2024
News THE CHALLENGE Golden hands and precision in the vineyard, Matteo Finezzo is Italy’s best pruner It ends contest No. 2, created by Simonit & Sirch Vine Master Pruners, staged in the vineyards of Agricola San Felice in Chianti Classico Castelnuovo Berardenga, 19.03.2024
News The organic vineyard in Italy exceeds 127,000 hectares, 18.1% of the total vineyard area Report “The World of Organic Agriculture” 2024: on organic, Italy leads Europe in number of producers and processors Rome, 13.03.2024
News Quality wine makes you happier (especially with high expectations and favorable conditions) A CNR study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture highlights how music and location help in the evaluation Rome, 18.03.2024
News The screw cap is a stylistic choice of the producer, to be told well to the wine consumer Between opinions and science, the message of the project of “The Svitati” Franz Haas, Graziano Prà, Jermann, Pojer and Sandri, and Vigneti Massa Bergamo, 08.03.2024
News CURRENT EVENTS Italy’s poorest grape harvest in 2023: 38.3 million hectoliters (-23.2%) Rome, 18.03.2024
News CRACCO’S AT THE GALLERY IN MILAN “Domus Artium Reserve” is opening among fine wines, haute cuisine, famous names and unique locations The private Club created by oenologists Riccardo Cotarella and Michel Rolland, dishes by Chef Carlo Cracco and wines chosen by Antonio Galloni is now opening Milano, 15.03.2024
News WINE AND FINANCE Masi buys back shares from Renzo Rosso’s Red Circle Investments, and litigations end Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, 15.03.2024
News ONLINE FOR COLLECTORS “The Revolution of Deep Time” by San Leonardo 2019 by artist Marzia Migliora Rome, 15.03.2024
News TRENDS California, Florida and Texas are the states that consume the most wine overseas The United States, despite a -5.3% drop in exports over 2022, remains the main market for bottles made in Italy New York, 13.03.2024
News THE PROJECT Florence has its urban vineyard: “Vigna Michelangelo” (Donne Fittipaldi) at Piazzale Michelangelo Seven hundred vine rootstocks planted on the beautiful hillside overlooking the Arno, an oasis of biodiversity among Tuscan vines, olive, pine Florence, 14.03.2024
News WINE, TERRITORY AND ENTERPRISE Cascina Penna-Currado: Elena and Luca Currado Vietti, with their children, return to Langa Montalcino, 15.03.2024
News ITALIAN WINE Italian wine exports: Veneto holds and is still leader in 2023, ahead of Piedmont and Tuscany The “big” names, instead are all on a decline. Trentino-Alto Adige, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Abruzzo are growing. Liguria is soaring Montalcino, 12.03.2024
News PROFESSIONAL ROLES Wineries are more and more looking for wine technicians, “ready to work as soon as they leave school” The state of the art of one of the professions that the Made in Italy wine system is based on, and a network of 15 institutes, coordinated by the Mach Foundation San Michele all'Adige, 12.03.2024
News “WINE TOURISM 4.0” Wine tourism, big phenomenon thanks to small wineries, for which it is worth 7% of turnover Rome, 06.03.2024
News “Cantina Italia”, wine stocks down: -4.2% on January 2024 and -10.9% on February 2023 There are 56.1 million hectoliters in stock in Italy today. Something is moving, in a landscape long characterized by immobility Rome, 13.03.2024
News Online auctions by Catawiki, wine grows as spending value but fewer bottles are purchased Among the major categories it is at the “top” in the listed portal that has more than 3 million items sold, up on 2022 Milan, 11.03.2024
News SCENARIOS Wine markets want to start up again, but caution prevails, is the sentiment at ProWein 2024 Conflicting opinions on the German Fair (once again penalized due to strikes). Everyone agrees, though, that the market is changing, and they must listen to it Dusseldorf, 11.03.2024
News REGULATIONS Wine and labels, extension for “out of stock” until June 30 for those already printed Signed the decree by the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, after the new EU regulation. With approval from Federvini and Coldiretti Rome, 11.03.2024
News Writer Joanne Harris and sailor Giovanni Soldini are “The Voice of Biondi-Santi” 2024 On March 1, the label where the famous red was born released Brunello di Montalcino 2018 and the old 1988 and 2010 Reserves to the market Montalcino, 08.03.2024
News Vinitaly and Merano Wine Festival, first joint venture in the name of amphora “Amphora Revolution”, a new joint project, is born, staged June 7-8, 2024 at Gallerie Mercatali by Veronafiere Verona, 11.03.2024
News WINE AND AWARDS Sicilian wine once again in the international spotlight, thanks to Planeta To the Sicilian label the “Wine family of the year” award of the “Meininger Awards Excellence in Wine & Spirit” No. 18, staged in Dusseldorf Dusseldorf, 11.03.2024
News THE CURIOSITY Ruffino focuses on “Winemaking Council”, a “dream team” of world-class winemakers and agronomists “The aim is to increasingly elevate the quality of Ruffino wines and their stylistic distinctiveness”, explains Constellation Brands Pontassieve, 07.03.2024