News Italian sparkling wine exports 2023: less quantity, but values grow on 2022 Shipped 502.8 million liters (-2.1%), worth 2.2 billion euros (+3.5%). US down, but first market. Uk and Germany grow, boom in France Montalcino, 12.03.2024
News “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 Masi buys back shares from Renzo Rosso’s Red Circle Investments, and litigations end BoD approves consolidated revenues of leading Amarone company, listed on Euronext Growth Milan, at 66.4 million euros Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, 15.03.2024
News ONLINE FOR COLLECTORS “The Revolution of Deep Time” by San Leonardo 2019 by artist Marzia Migliora With “Art in San Leonardo”, the Guerrieri Gonzaga family unveils labels and book in which contemporary art interprets the values of its grand vin Rome, 15.03.2024
News TRENDS California, Florida and Texas are the states that consume the most wine overseas New York, 13.03.2024
News Florence has its urban vineyard: “Vigna Michelangelo” (Donne Fittipaldi) at Piazzale Michelangelo
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 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 DATA 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 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 FINE WINES 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 FAIRS AND STRATEGIES 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 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 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
News It is made in Tuscany the wine dedicated to Eva Green, muse of Bertolucci and Polański Niccolò Marzichi Lenzi (son of Ilaria Antinori), who married the actress’s twin sister, produces it in Bolgheri Bolgheri, 07.03.2024
News WINE & ART The patronage of Italian wineries has no boundaries, and with Pasqua Vini lands in London London, 06.03.2024
News THE RANKING “Star Wine List”: Gaja, Tenuta dell’Ornellaia and Tenuta San Guido in the Top 10 Ranking lines up the producers most featured on the wine lists of top international wine shops and restaurants: Italy is on there 12 times Paris, 07.03.2024
News WINE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “Angelo Gaja, Champion of Italian wine”, on the cover of “Wine Spectator” for the third time New York, 06.03.2024
News SUPPORT FOR THE VINEYARD Downy mildew damage, decree in Official Gazette to apply for aid Rome, 06.03.2024
News LATEST NEWS Masi Agricola has become a Benefit Company adopting a “one-tier control” administration The green light from the shareholders’ meeting that also approved a new method for voting on appointing the Board of Directors Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, 05.03.2024
News MARCH 19 AND 20, IN NEW YORK The lights of the Big Apple turn on Barolo and Barbaresco for “World Opening” The event, initiated by the Consorzio del Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Dogliani, showcases the new vintages in the States, as is now a tradition New York, 22.02.2024
News MARKETS Nomisma Wine Monitor: the USA in first place for wine consumption, but imports will decline in 2023 Bologna, 04.03.2024
News WINE AND TERRITORY The “Abruzzo Model” is still improving in quality. Next challenge: defining its different identities At “Anteprima Montepulciano d’Abruzzo”, Colline Teramane Doc and Docg wines presented together, experimenting with a first subdivision into sub-zones Borgo Spoltino, 04.03.2024
News STRATEGIES AND MARKETS Vinitaly: world buyers (with €3 million investment) at the court of Italian wine Appointment in Verona, April 14-17 (on the 13th, with the premiere “Opera Wine”). The internationalization plan of VeronaFiere & Ice is strengthened Verona, 04.03.2024
News THE CURIOSITY At the Giro d’Italia, the toast is sustainable, with Astoria Prosecco and Nomacorc Pops cap Treviso, 04.03.2024
News Wine & mass retail trade: inflation hit shopping carts in 2023. Values are up, but volumes are down Bologna, 01.03.2024
News The EU Parliament in plenary session has approved the reform of the PDO and PGI regulations 3.410 PDO and PGI products at the EU level (890 are Italian), and production value of 80 billion euros (20.2 billion euros are Made in Italy) Strasbourg, 28.02.2024
News FINE WINES Le “Figaro” lines up the best tastings of wines from La Place de Bordeaux, there’s plenty of Italy From Masseto to Solaia (Antinori), from Poggio di Sotto’s Brunello to Fieramonte (Allegrini), from Parusso’s Barolo to Bibi Graetz’s Colore Bordeaux, 24.02.2024
News THE DREAMY AUCTION Sotheby’s auction for Bordeaux’s Cité du Vin, raised €337,000 for wine culture Top lot, the Le Pin (with private tour of the château in Bordeaux) for 75,000 euros. For Italy, the icons of Bolgheri: Sassicaia 1995, Ornellaia 1998 Bordeaux, 28.02.2024
News Cigars and Italian wine, a combination that pleases: Chianti flies once again to Cuba for “Habanos” Festival returns to Havana in the “pearl of the Caribbean”, a market where Italy is growing strongly. Busi: “to strengthen presence in South America” Havana, 28.02.2024
News For wine producers who have chosen passion, agronomic skills, biodynamics Thoughts and visions on the method inspired by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, which for many people is the best sustainable response to climate change Bologna, 27.02.2024
News MADE IN ITALY From Fontanafredda to Biondi-Santi to Bertani to Tedeschi, wineries are rediscovering the value of time Big brands investing in wine “libraries” to look to the future while maintaining their roots and enhancing their heritage Serralunga d'Alba, 27.02.2024
News THE CURIOSITY Sassicaia, the world’s most sought-after Italian wine. At No. 1 overall is Petrus, for Wine-Searcher In Italian top 10: Tignanello, Masseto, Ornellaia, Solaia, Monfortino, Flaccianello della Pieve, Argiano, Bartolo Mascarello and Gaja Sydney, 27.02.2024