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 prima con Mondadori e poi con MD Comunication. 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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Remembering Giacomo Tachis

Daniele Cernilli24 July 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli24 July 202315 December 20230

If Tachis is considered to be the father of modern Italian winemaking it is because his ideas contributed to triggering an authentic productive revolution which led to a winemaking renaissance in Italy. Talking about Giacomo Tachis is very difficult from...

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Food and wine

Daniele Cernilli17 July 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli17 July 202315 December 20230

No one has a magic wand to determine the proper “tastes” for food and wine pairing. There are many factors to take into consideration: cooking methods, winemaking styles, experience and tradition, which are all elements involved but are not written...

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Unintentional fusion

Daniele Cernilli26 June 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli26 June 202315 December 20230

Cuisines today, Italian as well as the others, are commixtures that are the result of centuries of travels and trade. And even those recipes that are apparently more traditional are the product of a combination of international ingredients, and this...

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Neglected wines

Daniele Cernilli19 June 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli19 June 202315 December 20230

Wine does not make itself and those who say it does (and believe it) do not take into account that wine is not made by nature alone but involves human intervention. Pressing grapes and letting the juice ferment by itself...

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Wines and ratings

Daniele Cernilli12 June 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli12 June 202315 December 20230

Assigning ratings to wines is the most concise way to state their quality but in our Essential Guide to Italian Wine we go beyond this: we describe the wines we evaluate, we say what grapes and aging method were used...

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Marco Oreggia, one of us

Daniele Cernilli5 June 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli5 June 202315 December 20230

Marco Oreggia is probably the most skilled and famous extra-virgin olive oil critic in the world and with his Flos Olei project he has created an unmatched informational initiative for quality EVOO. I have known Marco Oreggia since the latter half of the 1980s...

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Romagna nostra

Daniele Cernilli29 May 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli29 May 202315 December 20230

We have all seen the images of the flooding that recently devastated the region of Romagna and which words cannot describe. We hope our friends in Romagna will pull through this as soon as possible with the strength, courage and...

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The varietal name on the label

Daniele Cernilli22 May 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli22 May 202315 December 20230

According to European Union law, to place the name of a varietal on a wine label it is sufficient that the wine be at least 85% made with that grape. The rest can be composed of varieties permitted by the...

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Wine guides 36 years later

Daniele Cernilli8 May 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli8 May 202315 December 20230

Some are of the opinion that wine guides are, by now, useless, while others buy them year after year and don’t know what they would do without them. Like all things in the fragmented world, these guides are a niche...

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Is blending the future

Daniele Cernilli24 April 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli24 April 202315 December 20230

Every so often we hear people speak about this and it’s always authoritative producers who do so. A return to the practices of blending wines would appear to be a reasonable response, even if partial, to a problem as great...

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From your agent at Vinality

Daniele Cernilli17 April 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli17 April 202315 December 20230

Some memorable tastings done around the fair with Sicilian enologist Tonino Guzzo. Maybe it’s because some people may be beginning to think that I’m getting “too old and tired”, but the fact is that this year at the DoctorWine stand...

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The year of the three fairs

Daniele Cernilli3 April 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli3 April 202315 December 20230

The three fairs in question are Vinexpo, Prowein and Vinitaly, the three European trade fairs dedicated to wine that, following month after month, have been highlighting 2023. The question does arise, however, of how useful they can be being so...

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The legendary Vigna

Daniele Cernilli27 March 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli27 March 202315 December 20230

Luciano Lombardi, AKA Vignadelmar, Vigna for short, is an historic “host” with an enormous passion for restaurants and wine, which are his bread and butter. The title is a reference to how Lucio Dalla once defined Renato Villa, the Bologna...

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In praise of Ribolla

Daniele Cernilli13 March 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli13 March 202315 December 20230

Ribolla Gialla is an extraordinary varietal, very eclectic, which makes many excellent wines. Unfortunately, we have seen the appearance of many other wines that seem to trivialize this great grape. The latest news on the fate of Ribolla Gialla is...

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How bright is the Sassicaia star?

Daniele Cernilli6 March 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli6 March 202315 December 20230

Sassicaia is not only a formidable wine but it is also a trailblazer for all quality Italian wines the world over. This should be clear to everyone, especially those who insist on arguing that it is an overrated wine. My...

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Piedmont producer and wine giudes

Daniele Cernilli27 February 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli27 February 202315 December 20230

Do Italian critics not like Piedmont wine? Not exactly, it’s only that, for various reasons, many of the region’s wines are not properly reviewed. There has recently been a little brouhaha over a ranking of the 100 best Italian red wines...

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Consumerist society and defectives wines

Daniele Cernilli20 February 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli20 February 202315 December 20230

What is the attraction of defective wines, which are considered to be authentic, compared to technically well-made wines that are seen as the antithesis of rural culture? During a recent press tour, I noticed how some of my younger colleagues paid exaggerated...

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The importance of learning

Daniele Cernilli6 February 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli6 February 202315 December 20230

Wine appreciation courses not only teach you how to taste wine but also, and above all, to understand such a multifaceted world and how to learn to be an informed consumer. I took my first wine appreciation course at the...

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Sometimes they come back

Daniele Cernilli30 January 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli30 January 202315 December 20230

Not everyone knows this but wine-in-a-can originated in Italy in the 1980s. Its initial and quick success soon dissipated with its detractors having the upper hand and this practice went on hold until a few years ago. However, its popularity...

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Vertical tasings

Daniele Cernilli23 January 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli23 January 202315 December 20230

A vertical tasting of all or almost all of a wine’s vintages allows one to obtain a profound knowledge of that wine, its history, stylistic evolution and the context in which this occurred. One of the most efficient ways to...

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Luciano Sandrone, a remembrance

Daniele Cernilli16 January 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli16 January 202315 December 20230

Luciano Sandrone’s wines mirrored his good-natured, kind and cheerful personality. He was someone who was not out to teach anything to anyone but only to make wines that reflected their origin using clean and precise methods. Another friend is gone....

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Whites wines and natives grapes

Daniele Cernilli9 January 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli9 January 202315 December 20230

Italians have every reason to be proud of their white wines and should sing the praises of many of the great ones. Which wines? We’ll let you be the judge. Were I to ask my friend Luciano Lombardi, AKA Vignamar,...

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The great wines of the near future

Daniele Cernilli2 January 202315 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli2 January 202315 December 20230

It is not easy to predict which will be the next Italian wine growing areas to attract the international limelight, however we can make some educated guesses. There is little doubt that Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello, Bolgheri and Amarone, along with some...