Author: Daniele Cernilli

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Daniele Cernilli, aka DoctorWine, è un critico enologico di fama internazionale e direttore responsabile del web magazine DoctorWine e della Guida Essenziale ai Vini d’Italia. Giornalista e degustatore con oltre quarant’anni di esperienza, è stato cofondatore del Gambero Rosso e curatore della guida Vini d’Italia per 24 edizioni, direttore del GR Magazine e volto del GR Channel oltre che collaboratore di numerose testate. Attualmente è direttore responsabile anche della rivista L’Assaggiatore dell’Onav - Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Vino, conferenziere e docente ai corsi professionali di degustazione. Autore di diversi libri sul vino - Sulle tracce del Gallo Nero, in collaborazione con Paolo De Cristofaro (Giunti 2024), I racconti (e i consigli) di Doctor Wine (Einaudi, 2014), Vitigni del mondo in collaborazione con Dario Cappelloni (La Conchiglia 2012); Memorie di un assaggiatore di vino (Einaudi 2006) - dal 2014 realizza, in collaborazione con un selezionato team di degustatori e giornalisti, la Guida Essenziale ai Vini d’Italia. Degustatore ufficiale al Decanter World Wine Award (dal 2012 al 2020), membro della Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame di New York (2015) e in passato inserito da Decanter tra le 50 persone più influenti nel mondo del vino, dal 2019 è anche chairman di 5Stars – The Book di Vinitaly International.
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Behind the scenes of wine events: the unseen work

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Hundreds of wineries, thousands of wine enthusiasts, wines, wine glasses, and venues to set up: behind every wine event lies a great deal of work that the public sees only in part. The three presentations of the Essential Guide provide...
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Gambero Rosso’s 40th Anniversary

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Of the 47 years I have spent working in the wine industry, half of them were spent playing an important role at Gambero Rosso, to which I therefore owe a great deal. On the occasion of this publication’s 40th anniversary,...
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Col d’Orcia, The Glorious Five

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Five vintages ending in 5—from 1975 to 2015—span half a century of Brunello di Montalcino Col d’Orcia. Francesco Marone Cinzano and his son Santiago brought them together in a series of tastings held in Milan and Rome. Among the Riserva...
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The acquisition campaign

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Angelo Gaja’s denial of alleged negotiations with LVMH has refocused attention on acquisitions in the Italian wine industry. Between completed deals, rumors, and ongoing negotiations, ownership of many wineries is changing. The lack of generational succession and the industry crisis...
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Aristocratic wines

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by Daniele Cernilli0
From the great dynasties of Italian wine to the names that have shaped the history of Italian winemaking. The wine list curated by Daniele Cernilli for the Café Romano restaurant at the Hotel d’Inghilterra transforms the concept of aristocratic hospitality...
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The Hard-to-Find Wines

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by Daniele Cernilli0
For The Essential Guide to Italian Wine, coming soon, we’ve featured three wines that are practically impossible to find. We chose to call them “Hard-to-Find Wines” and describe their organoleptic characteristics without judging them, leaving them unrated—for the first time...
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One Forte

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
From the automotive industry to biodynamics: Pasquale Forte has transformed 500 hectares in Val d’Orcia into an agricultural project based on quality, biodiversity, and innovation. Eighteen hectares of vineyards produce wines with great character, with the 2022 Guardiavigna taking center...
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Bonilli and Petrini

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by Daniele Cernilli1
Twelve years after the passing of Stefano Bonilli and a few months after that of Carlin Petrini, Daniele Cernilli remembers two of the leading figures in Italian food and wine culture. Different in character and vision, often at odds but...
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Enoteca Cellar Sommelier, a gathering place for wine

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by Daniele Cernilli0
In Rome’s Prati neighborhood, a small wine shop has developed a business model that goes beyond simply selling bottles. Tastings, classes, trips, and a community of wine enthusiasts show how, even during a difficult time for the industry, innovation and...
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Roberto Conterno, the visionary winemaker who looks to the future

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by Daniele Cernilli0
From Monfortino to the rebirth of Nervi, all the way to the first autonomous tractor for viticulture. The Monforte d’Alba-based producer continues to combine winemaking excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and technological innovation. Roberto Conterno is a visionary and intelligent man. He...
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Rancia vs. Fontalloro: The Big Match in Fèlsina

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Fattoria di Fèlsina is celebrating a series of anniversaries with a double vertical tasting of its two signature wines. Nine vintages are compared in an ideal pairing of elegance and power, curated by Daniele Cernilli. This year at the Fattoria...
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Silvano & Silvano

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Two men with the same name, Silvano Formigli and Silvano Prompicai, two very different Chianti Classico wines. A personal recollection that starts from Fèlsina’s 60 years and goes back to the early 1980s, when Ama and Fèlsina were still little-known...
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Illustrious and unknown

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Small tribute to some little-known figures in Italy but who have done so much to make Italian cuisine and our wines known in the United States. If Italian wine and food play an important role in the American world today,...
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The wine crisis continues

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by Daniele Cernilli0
The wine crisis shows no sign of ending. From the positive experience of 15 years of DoctorWine comes a proposal: make quality events and restaurants more accessible to bring new generations closer to the world of wine. Daniele Cernilli talks...
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Wine tradition: identity or myth?

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What does it really mean to call a wine “traditional”? Behind an overused term lies history, marketing and territorial identity. Daniele Cernilli reflects on the relationship between memory and modernity, questioning the too casual use of a word that often...
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Goodbye Carlin

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Daniele Cernilli ‘s affectionate remembrance of Carlo Petrini, “Carlin,” the founder of Slow Food and a decisive figure in world food and wine culture: from his beginnings in Bra to the birth of Arci Gola, from the Guida Vini d’Italia...
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A big celebration for DoctorWine

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by Daniele Cernilli0
On May 9 at the Le Méridien Visconti hotel in Rome there will be a big event to celebrate 15 years of DoctorWine. There will be 52 wineries that have Three Stars in The Essential Guide to Italian Wines 2026...
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A remembrance of Alessio Di Majo

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Daniele Cernilli remembers his friendship with Alessio Di Majo, a key figure in Molisian vitienology. Alessio left us on April 19, leaving everyone dismayed and saddened. It was among the things I didn’t want to experience. I knew he hadn’t...
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The Gold of Paola Di Mauro

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Paola di Mauro’s farm in Colle Picchioni is turning 50 years old. There will be celebrations and memories. But alongside the latter, Daniele Cernilli wants to reintroduce a story he wrote in 2014 that he has slightly revised, updating it...
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Vinitaly exceeds expectations

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by Daniele Cernilli0
The doomsayers who predicted that Vinitaly would be scaled back have been proven wrong by the facts. Fewer visitors, it’s true, but a more professional audience. For those who knew how to prepare for the fair, the results were positive....
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Is it all the wine’s fault?

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Wine is under attack: accused of everything, including declining consumption, media criticism and poor representation. Yet the sector endures, amid difficulties and fragmentation, continuing to work and support an entire industry. It needs more clarity and perhaps a strong voice...
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That Brunello ’64

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
A story of passion, naiveté and redemption: the pursuit of a mythical Brunello that ended up in a braise and was found again 20 years later, to discover what great wine really means. In early 1978 I was new to...
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Franciacorta and Oltrepò

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli1
Professor Michele Antonio Fino’s proposal for a “Grande Franciacorta” appellation to include the metodo classico produced in Lombardy is causing discussion. Awaiting Stefania Vinciguerra’s in-depth study, some considerations. I confess that I understood little about it and I am waiting...
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The cuisine of Rome

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by Daniele Cernilli0
Different cultures are also grafted into the Capital in terms of cuisine: alongside the poor cuisine of offal-the so-called “fifth quarter”- we recognize in many recipes a Roman-Jewish matrix, ending with the country cuisine of the Castelli Romani. Daniele Cernilli...
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De Vigili: rotalian rebirth between Teroldego and Chardonnay

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by Daniele Cernilli0
In Mezzolombardo, in the heart of the Piana Rotaliana, the historic De Vigili winery-founded at the end of the 19th century and reborn in 2015-interprets Teroldego and Chardonnay with personality, between territorial tradition and enological precision. It was reborn in...
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Giuntabosca, a young Calabrian story that shows promise

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
A historic winery that Marinetta Boscarelli took over almost suddenly, but with determination and clear ideas. The first wines are already convincing and hint at an interesting future. Daniele Cernilli tells us about them. Marinetta Boscarelli found herself having to...
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Harmonic wines: what “harmony” means in wine

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by Daniele Cernilli0
What does “harmonic wine” really mean? Harmony, as in music, is not just one. Every wine has different balances, related to typicality and origin: a Barolo does not “sound” like a Riesling. More than a rule, it is an exercise...
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Veronelli’s 100 years

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by Daniele Cernilli0
One hundred years after the birth of Gino Veronelli, a remembrance of an erratic and brilliant master who forever changed the narrative of Italian wine, launching talent, discovering producers and bringing wine into the country’s cultural debate. Man, before the...
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Watch out for those four

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by Daniele Cernilli0
It was the year 1993, and this photo testifies to a pioneering way of working, at least seen through today’s eyes: a “de visu” operational meeting for the 1994 Guide to the Wines of Italy. We were meeting in Viareggio,...