Pot-Pourri
Pot-pourri, like the scented composition made with dried flower petals and essential oils, encompasses many articles of different topics, a kind of corollary to the central topics of the site.
Special Awards 2024
The point of the special awards we give in the Essential Guide that help shed light on the state of our vitienology is simple: to bring under the lens certain wines above all, but also companies, people, and projects that...
Best wines from single grape 2024
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 percent are derived from a single...
Best wines by value for money 2024
There are 560 wines in the pages of the guide that have the "thumbs up," that is, our symbol for good value for money. From these, we have chosen the 10 that have the best value for money. To make...
The producers Three Stars 2024
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 Wines. Of course, 3 stars is...
Are you buying it? Don’t drink too much
Moderate alcohol consumption campaign kicks off in Rome. The project created by Sapienza students becomes a Federvini campaign spread in collaboration with the Municipality of Rome Capital. The joint initiative aims to promote awareness about moderate alcohol consumption among the...
Double and triple “faces” 2024
Here we have lined up the qualitative apex of our pyramid for this tenth edition of the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy. These are for us the top Italian wines for the coming season, absolutely great wines that,...
The 5 seminars in Milan
During the presentation weekend of the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2024, we organized five seminars: Sassicaia-San Leonardo and Supertuscan on Saturday; Bubbles, Alto Adige and Barolo on Sunday. Before presenting the seminars, we prefer to mention an...
Sunday, October 1: Essential Guide Presentation in Milan
On Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1, 2023, a grand tasting will take place in Milan to celebrate the release of the tenth edition of DoctorWine’s Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2024. An unforgettable weekend for a...
DoctorWine Seals 2024: 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 now on you will find individual Seals divided...
“One Hundred for One Hundred Sicily” bottles arrive.
O-I Glass, one of the world’s leading manufacturers, on a global scale, of glass packaging for the food and beverage industry, in partnership with the SOStain Sicilia Foundation, officially announces the arrival on the market of “One Hundred by One...
Saturday, September 30: Essential Guide Presentation in Milan
On Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1, 2023, a grand tasting will take place in Milan to celebrate the release of the tenth edition of DoctorWine’s Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2024. An unforgettable weekend for a...
Faccini 2024: Piedmont Aosta Valley and Liguria
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
Faccini 2024: Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
Wine and work: the employment challenge
Fourth edition of Wine and Work: Equalitas and Lights On Work together on the theme of the employment challenge. Equalitas President Riccardo Ricci Curbastro: “Social sustainability key piece for wine companies. Invest in training as a lever for personal as...
Faccini 2024: South Tyrol and Trentino
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
The winners of the 42nd Masi Prize
Theme: Roots and Perspectives. Awards: CIVILTA’ VENETA: Mario Cannella, Andrea Rinaldo, Stevanato Group; CIVILTA’ DEL VINO: Yuko and Shin Kibayashi; GROSSO D’ORO VENEZIANO: Rakhshan Banietemad. Also for the 42nd edition of the Masi Prize will be 5 high-value personalities to...
Faccini 2024: Sicily and Sardinia
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
Faccini 2024: Campania Lazio and Umbria
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
Faccini 2024: Lombardy Emilia and Romagna
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
Faccini 2024: Marche Abruzzo and Molise
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Beyond that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region, each...
2023 vintage forecast: less than 44 million hectoliters
Italian wine production falls just under 44 million hectoliters , down 12 percent from last year’s 50 million. According to forecasts by the Assoenologi Observatory, Ismea and the Italian Wine Union (Uiv), presented today at Masaf, that 2023 could prove...
Faccini 2024: Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria
95, 96 e 97/100. These are the points a wine must achieve to win the Faccino DoctorWine. Further than that, double-face (98/100) and triple-face (99 and 100/100) are triggered. From now on you will find individual facets divided by region,...
Earth, the roots of culture
Have you ever tried to trace the essence of the word “culture”? The etymology leaves no room for doubt: “culture,” in Latin, means “cultivation of the earth” and comes from the verb còlere, “to cultivate.” And while today this term...
The situation in Puglia and Primitivo di Manduria (2)
After seeing the position of Novella Pastorelli, the President of the Consortium for the Protection of Primitivo di Manduria, we interview today Donato Pentassuglia, Regional Agriculture Councillor, and Michele Schifone oenologist and owner of the Cicella masseria winery. We asked...
Army to stop wild boars?
More than two million wild boars around Italy are a problem not only for agriculture, causing road accidents as well. The call to curb its proliferation has come from many voices and has been taken up by the government, as...
Doctorwine’s essential guide to the wines of Italy turns 10
PRESS RELEASE – The milestone will be celebrated in two stages together with many great protagonists of Italian wine production and the vast audience that has always followed Daniele Cernilli and DoctorWine: in MILAN (Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at...
Doctorwine App Ready
PRESS RELEASE – DoctorWine is adding a mobile APP to its communication channels: it will be available to users worldwide, in both Italian and English, for both iOS and Android devices. Downloadable for free from the Apple App Store or...
Nicodemo Librandi passed away.
Nicodemo Librandi, a central figure in Calabrian wine, a doctor and professor of mathematics as well as founder of the winery of the same name in Cirò Marina, Calabria, has passed away. An outstanding wine entrepreneur, he has been a...
Andrea Lonardi becomes Master of Wine
With Andrea Lonardi, chief operating officer of Angelini Wines & Estates, Italy has its second Master of Wine. Andrea Lonardi from Veneto, 49, is the second Italian-after Gabriele Gorelli from Tuscany, who passed in 2021-to have passed the very difficult...
Ultimate victory of Bolghieri vs. Bolgarè
The General Court of the European Union recognizes all of the Bolgheri Consortium’s arguments in the case against the Bulgarian trademark Bolgaré, whose appeal is found to be definitively and manifestly unfounded because the Bolgaré trademark is evocative of the...