Wine world news

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her daughters Maria Elena, Elvira, Luisa and Giuliana Bortolomiol remember her this way, “Ottavia Scagliotti Bortolomiol, a sweet and brave warrior.” Ottavia Scagliotti left us in silence, with the elegance that she always had and that, for 95 years, marked...

Intense program of activities, with the Capital increasingly at the center of the project. President Tullio Galassini: “Roma Doc labels essential business card for the city’s restaurants and hotels. A natural union that we have a duty to develop in...

Sal8 Bar Agricolo enters Top 500 Bars with cocktails born from the garden. Owner Giulio Neri: “Rewarded our spontaneity.” Twenty-four positions climbed in one year and the confirmation that even in San Vincenzo there is an establishment that can contend...

Give away 12,000 “Riccione Piadina” to departing tourists. We all remember well the images of the flood that devastated Romagna last May. Yet the people of Romagna are capable sof always being welcoming and festive. In fact, it is a...

The effects of downy mildew, the vine disease that is attacking several Italian regions due to heavy spring rains, are becoming increasingly severe, with losses of up to 40 percent expected in some areas for the upcoming, upcoming harvest year....

Canelli from a subzone of Moscato d’Asti officially becomes a Docg. Published in the Official Journal of the European Union the regulation recognizing the PDO (unique acronym that includes, at European level, Doc and Docg). A European Commission regulation (2023/1327)...

According to data compiled by the Uiv-Ismea-Vinitaly Observatory, in the January-March 2023 period, Italian wine exports recorded flat volumes and a barely positive value (+3.8%9 when compared to the growth in spending. Still down red wines, in contraction PDO and...

According to the Observatory of the Italian Wine Union (Uiv), the number of Italian wine consumers is increasing, but people are drinking less. Aperitifs (+79%) and female consumption (+12%) are growing. Elaborations on Istat base of alcohol consumption in Italy...

The text approved unanimously in Comagri must be maintained. The organizations of the Italian wine sector speak on the eve of the vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament. In view of the vote of parliamentarians in plenary...

Only about 1 percent of all the world’s wine production has the characteristics to be considered collectible wine. With the help of Wine Profit, an innovative hybrid company that supports investors in diversifying their portfolios, let’s see what elements make...

15 Italian Regions and more than 530 Wineries involved for the big celebration of wine tourism. The most eagerly awaited weekend for wine lovers is coming up to kick off the celebration of 30 years of Movimento Turismo del Vino....

Presented Piera Dolza 10 years, a very rare raisin wine emblem and pride of a territory. A heritage that has not been lost thanks to 7 small producers united to save it and make it known to the world. They...

The Consorzio per la Tutela dei Vini Valpolicella and Famiglie Storiche announce that they have settled all pending litigation between them concerning the use of the “Amarone della Valpolicella” DOCG. The Consorzio and Famiglie Storiche share the purpose of taking action,...

Francesco Arrigoni was a “straight-backed” food and wine journalist who died too soon. In Ome, Franciacorta, thanks to the interest of the Majolini family, a street has been named after him, whose plaque will be unveiled on May 25. The...

Sustainability managers from leading fashion brands were guests in Franciacorta for a busy day of activities between visits to some of the wineries to learn more about the Franciacorta method and at the Consortium’s headquarters where environmental, social, cultural and...

The wine world loses another great man. Italo Stupino, owner of the Castello di Neive winery, left us yesterday. He had just turned 87 on May 7. His health had been deteriorating for a few months. A wine producer with...

Marchesi Antinori and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates announce change of ownership of historic winery in Napa Valley. Marchesi Antinori, one of the oldest family-owned premium wine companies, and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the largest winery in the Pacific Northwest and among...