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Cirò now has its own DOCG: Cirò Classico
Cirò Rosso Riserva becomes DOCG under the new name Cirò Classico. Cirò Bianco, Cirò Rosato, Cirò Rosso, Cirò Rosso Classico, Cirò Rosso Classico Superiore and Cirò Rosso Superiore remain within the DOC. Wine Calabria celebrates with the 18th edition of...
Sant’Anna Master of Pisa: Italian Wines and World Markets
The first-level university master’s program “Italian Wines and World Markets,” now in its 11th edition, has opened enrollment for the 2025-26 academic year. Organized by the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa in collaboration with three Tuscan universities and the AIS,...
Verdicchio Castelli di Jesi, storage decided
The Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC is extending the storage measure until June 30, 2026, to safeguard the market and the appellation. This was decided in Jesi (Ancona) by the members’ meeting of the Marche Institute for the Protection...
Orvieto Doc at 10 degrees
New specification approved, allowing 10-degree alcohol content for Orvieto Doc. First wines on the market and research project for a more modern and sustainable appellation. The Consorzio Tutela Vini di Orvieto announces a historic step for the denomination: with the...
“The Future of Fine Wine in Europe” in Strasbourg with Assoenologi
Assoenologi at the European Parliament with DoctorWine contributors Sissi Baratella and Sara Fracassetti: the only all-female speaker before European Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen. In the presence of the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen, the meeting “The Future...
Sustainability of wine supply chain from welfare at work
Equalitas presents Distretti del Vino e della Sicurezza: sustainability of the wine supply chain starts with well-being at work. Training, protection and rights: the Nobile di Montepulciano pilot project launches a sustainable and safe model that can be replicated by...
Italian Wine Union: we react to difficulties
According to the Italian Wine Union, it is necessary to adjust the Single Wine Text to react to the difficulties. Wine supply exceeds demand, with the next harvest there is a risk of 90 million hectoliters in the cellar with...
Filippo Butussi, new president of the Friuli Colli Orientali and Ramandolo Consortium.
Friuli Colli Orientali and Ramandolo Consortium: new board of directors elected. The new president is Filippo Butussi. After the end-of-term greeting of outgoing president Paolo Valle, who led the Board of Directors for the last two terms (and a total...
Valoritalia presents the Annual Report of wine in Italy.
Valoritalia presents the Annual Report of wine in Italy: 9.23 billion the value of certified wine in 2024. A year of consolidation for tricolor enology in the face of the condition of global instability and the recent uncertainty regarding U.S....
Francesco Liantonio re-elected president of the Consorzio Tutela Vini Doc Castel del Monte
Consorzio di Tutela Vini Doc Castel del Monte: continuity, promotion and sustainability at the center of the new mandate Francesco Liantonio has been re-elected as president of the Consorzio di Tutela Vini Doc Castel del Monte, thus confirming the trust...
Cesare Cecchi confirmed as president of the Consorzio Vino Toscana
Cesare Cecchi will be the president of the Tuscan Wine Consortium for a third consecutive term. He was appointed by the Consorzio’s new board of directors, elected by the assembly last May 23. The vice presidents are Ancillotti and Frescobaldi....
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: Andrea Rossi confirmed as president
This will be the third three-year term as president of the Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano for Andrea Rossi and third also for Rossi’s vice presidents, Susanna Crociani and Luca Tiberini. Andrea Rossi will be the president of the...
Sissi Baratella talks about Prosecco Superiore Conegliano Valdobbiadene.
In the first weekend of June, Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore will be the protagonist of a new storytelling project, entrusted to the voice and gaze of our collaborator Sissi Baratella, oenologist, journalist and wine popularizer. In collaboration with the Consorzio...
Giacomo Bartolommei new president Consorzio Vino Brunello di Montalcino
Giacomo Bartolommei is the new president of the Consorzio Vino Brunello di Montalcino. Youngest ever. The new president of the Consorzio Vino Brunello di Montalcino has been appointed. He is Giacomo Bartolommei, the youngest in the denomination’s history. Also appointed...
Vino Nobile, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and Minister Salvini
“Tuscans have broken the p…..” Vice Premier Matteo Salvini’s (unfortunate) joke “stolen” during an exchange with Abruzzo President Marco Marsilio. The Caroccio leader had responded thus to the Melonian governor who had said, “Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is better known and exported...
Equalitas, Riccardo Ricci Curbastro confirmed as president
Equalitas met to appoint directors to the new board of directors, which will serve until 2027, confirming Riccardo Ricci Curbastro as chairman. The new Equalitas Board of Directors in office until 2027 is as follows. Riccardo Ricci Curbastro (Chairman); Michele...
Wine, IMT: Michele Bernetti confirmed as president
Michele Bernetti (Umani Ronchi) has been confirmed as the head of the Marche Institute for the Protection of Wines (IMT). IMT is the leading consortium in the Marche region, which has about 500 members, 16 protected appellations and 89 percent...
Consorzio Tutela Vini Irpinia, Teresa Bruno reconfirmed at the helm
Teresa Bruno reappointed as head of the Consorzio di Tutela Vini Irpinia. A cohesive team ready to lead the Consortium to new challenges. A few days after the holding of the Members’ Meeting, Teresa Bruno was reappointed as head of...
The Wine Machines Museum Opens
In Valdichiana, Tuscany’s Capital of Culture 2025, just a stone’s throw from Montepulciano, pearl of the Renaissance, in an extraordinary landscape setting, a natural oasis among vineyards as far as the eye can see, oak forests and olive groves, The...
Emilia Romagna Consortium: Carlo Piccinini reappointed as president
The Emilia Romagna Consortium Members’ Meeting confirmed Carlo Piccinini (Cantina di Carpi e Sorbara Winery) as president for a new three-year term. At his side were elected Marco Nannetti (CDA Terre Cevico technical adviser) and Giorgio Chiarli (Tenuta Santa Croce)...
Silvano Formigli, a great professional, has left us.
Great preparation, passion, and enthusiasm were the basis of Silvano Formigli’s work from the very beginning, and perhaps when he decided to retire, the end of the era of great passions related to the world of wine began. Today he...
Veronafiere, Barbara Ferro is the new managing director
Barbara Ferro is the new managing director of Veronafiere. She was unanimously appointed today by the Verona-based exhibition company’s board of directors at its first meeting following the renewal of its membership. The managing director has been given strategic mandates...
Consorzio Franciacorta, Emanuele Rabotti is the new president
The new Board of Directors of the Franciacorta Consortium has elected Emanuele Rabotti, owner of the Monte Rossa winery, as the Consortium’s new president. With a deep knowledge of the territory and a longstanding commitment to the Franciacorta world, Emanuele...
Alta Langa Consortium: Giovanni Minetti is the new president
Changing of the guard at the top of the Consorzio Alta Langa: the new president is Giovanni Minetti (Tenuta Carretta). Joining him as vice president is Gianmario Cerutti (Coppo). Minetti succeeds Mariacristina Castelletta, who led the membership for the past...
Sicilia en Primeur 2025 closes the curtain
Sicilia en Primeur: the 21st edition of the event conceived by Assovini Sicilia ended in Modica. 100 journalists from around the world participated in press tours and the conference that focused on the current debate and the importance of wine...
Wine (Frescobaldi, UIV): Nonsensical to include wine in EU counter-duties list
Frescobaldi (UIV), following the European Commission’s publication of the new list of U.S. products subject to possible counter-tariffs, said it is foolish to include wine as well. “We reiterate our absolute opposition and concern regarding the inclusion of wine-and American...
IGM renews its commitment alongside the Progetto Itaca
IGM renews its commitment alongside the Progetto Itaca with the seventh edition of the “Il Bel Viaggio” charity dinner. The funds raised from the charity auction, thanks to the lots raffled off by Istituto Grandi Marchi companies, will guarantee the...
Giacomo Oddero has left us
Giacomo Oddero was a character of brilliant insights, a man who gave so much to his land, the Langhe. He passed away on Monday the 21st at the age of 98. “A visionary who was able to build the foundations...
Frescobaldi and Tenuta delle Terre Nere, Etna
Tuscan winery Marchesi Frescobaldi lands on Etna, in one of the most vocated lands for wine, and becomes a minority partner of Tenuta delle Terre Nere. A shared passion for wine and true relationships has always reigned supreme in the...
Prosecco Low-Alcohol, evidence of transmission
Presented at Vinitaly the first results of the Prosecco Low-Alcohol project launched in 2024 by the Consorzio di Tutela della Doc Prosecco in collaboration with the University of Padua. The aim of the project is to investigate the characteristic elements...