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Best single-vineyard wines 2025
The following is the special ranking that rewards the best wines produced from a single grape variety, among the main ones grown in Italy, both indigenous and international. To be exact, at least 85% comes from a single grape variety,...
Best quality/price wines 2025
There are in the pages of the Essential Guide 2025 510 wines that have the “thumbs up”. It is our symbol for the excellent relationship between wine quality and selling price: basically the wines to buy to drink well at...
The Producers 3 Stars 2025
In addition to the rating of wines in cents, with facsimiles graphically representing the awards, there is also a system of rating wineries from zero to three stars in The Essential Guide to Italian Wine. Of course, 3 stars is...
Summary Seals 2025
To make it easier for those who want to find all the Seals of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025, here is a summary post with all the necessary links. We remember: the “little face” is the symbol of...
Vintage estimates 2024: comments from key players
Comments on the 2024 vintage estimates from Riccardo Cotarella president Assoenologi, Livio Proietti president ISMEA, Lamberto Frescobaldi president UIV and Gaya Ducceschi Head of Wine & Society and Communication CEEV. They were presented today in Ortigia (SR), as part of...
2024 vintage estimates: despite drought, heat and bad weather, quality is good
Presented to G7 Agriculture the 2024 vintage estimates of Assoenologi, Uiv and Ismea. Good to excellent quality. Timid rise in production with 41 mln hectoliters. There are an estimated 41 million hectoliters for the 2024 harvest, which marks a tentative...
Double and triple Seals 2025
Here lines up the qualitative apex of our pyramid for this 11th edition of the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy. These are the top Italian wines of the coming season, absolutely great wines that, it goes without saying,...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Tuscany
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual facets...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta and Liguria
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual Seals...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual facets...
Cuvage: the evolution of the Piedmontese Metodo Classico.
Cuvage is an oenological universe dedicated to the Metodo Classico, created with the intention of handing down the ancient sparkling wine tradition of Piedmont. Cuvage is an enological universe dedicated to the Metodo Classico. The winery was founded in 2011...
Sunday, September 29, The Essential Guide Presentation in Milan
A grand tasting will take place in Milan on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29 to celebrate the release of DoctorWine’s The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025. An unforgettable weekend for a great celebration of quality wine. Two...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025 Alto Adige and Trentino
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual Seals...
New Executive for The Grand Wine Tour
The Gran Wine tour, the first Italian association of wineries united in the enhancement of wine tourism, appoints Nadia Zenato and Elvira Bortolomiol as communication managers: “Together to enhance and develop quality wine tourism, with the goal of reaching 40...
Here are the winners of the 43rd Masi Prize
Civiltà Veneta to Riccardo Illy, Arcangelo Sassolino, Sara Segantin. Civiltà del Vino to Donatella Cinelli Colombini and Grosso D’Oro Veneziano to Opera Don Calabria. THEME OF THE 2024 EDITION: “ The Virtuous Circle of Beauty.” The Masi Foundation is pleased...
Saturday, September 28: The Essential Guide Presentation in Milan
A grand tasting will take place in Milan on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29 to celebrate the release of DoctorWine’s The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025. An unforgettable weekend for a great celebration of quality wine. Two...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Sicily and Sardinia
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual Seals...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Campania, Lazio and Umbria
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual Seals...
Giorgio Medici has passed away
It is with immense sorrow that we learn that Giorgio Medici, president and third-generation member of the Medici Ermete winery, pioneer of Lambrusco and Italian wine in the world, has passed away. Giorgio Medici (better known as James) passed away...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Lombardy, Emilia and Romagna
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual Seals...
High-level group on European wine sector kicks off
Businesses want action on competitiveness and climate change adaptation for a sector that expresses 3 million jobs. High Level Group on the European Wine Sector kicks off. Work has begun on the High Level Group on the wine sector promoted...
Press review: The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025
This is followed by a press review on the publication of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025 and its presentation days, with major tastings open to the public and seminars. Thank you to all fellow journalists and communicators who...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Marche, Abruzzo and Molise
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From Tuesday 10 onwards you will find individual facets...
Giovanni Manetti confirmed as head of Chianti Classico wine consortium
No two without three: Giovanni Manetti, of the Fontodi winery, confirmed as head of the Chianti Classico Wine Consortium. In the centennial year of Italy’s oldest wine consortium, Manetti is acclaimed president for the third time. Also in the sign...
Seminars on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29
As part of the weekend presentation of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025, we have organized 4 seminars that are not to be missed. The DoctorWine tagged wine festival., which marks the release of The Essential Guide to Italian...
DoctorWine’s Seals 2025: Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria
95, 96 and 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to be awarded with the DoctorWine Seal. Further than that, double-seal (98/100) and triple-seal (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual Seals divided...
DoctorWine Essential Guide: 2025 edition ready
PRESS RELEASE – It will be presented in Milan on Sept. 28 and 29 and in Rome on Oct. 6 with highly anticipated tasting booths dedicated to the many excellent producers in the Guide and their great wines. “There is...
DoctorWine in Berlin 2024 Press Review
DoctorWine in Berlin 2024. Here is a collection of the first published articles related to the September 11 presentation of the new book Grosse Weine zu Kleinen Preisen by DoctorWine. https://berlinomagazine.com/doctorwine-arriva-a-berlino-per-presentare-la-sua-nuova-guida-di-vini/ https://berlinerweinpilot.de/events/doctorwine/ Below are the wineries that will present their...
Pietro Alagna passed away at the age of 96
Pietro Alagna, Honorary President of Cantine Pellegrino in Marsala, passed away on Aug. 26 at the age of 96. A leading figure in Italian oenology, he made a fundamental contribution to linking Marsala’s oenological history with today’s winemaking modernity. Pellegrino,...
Here are the best wines of Sud Top Wine 2024
Here are the 69 Southern Italian wines chosen from more than 500 labels from six regions of the country for the sixth edition of the Sud Top Wine Competition. Here are the best 69 The best wines from Southern Italy...