Signed DoctorWine
“Signed DoctorWine” includes editorials by editor Daniele Cernilli or his closest collaborators (so the signature is the DoctorWine journal), as well as stories of memories with key players in the world of wine.
The Wines for Summer 2024
DoctorWine's small tour dedicated to Wines for Summer kicks off May 11 in Milan. The other stops are Rome on the 18th and Riccione on the 20th. Three tastings dedicated to summer drinking wines, which you will find recounted, along...
Slow Food strikes again
Slow Food Italy, the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo and the Laudato Si' Communities have launched an appeal (with related signature collection) to include nutrition education as a compulsory teaching in schools of all levels. This time, one really...
Welcome back Fiorano Semillon
AlessandroJacopo Boncompagni Ludovisi, owner of Tenuta di Fiorano, has revived the legendary Fiorano Semillon of Veronellian memory. The last versions of Fiorano Semillon that I remember date back to the early 1970s. It was a legendary wine, wanted by the...
Doc
By now the term has entered the public imagination. For many it is synonymous with "authentic," so terms like a Roman Doc, a Milanese Doc, allude to just that. But let's see what Doc or, rather, Docs are in this...
What Vinitaly will tell us
The Verona fair may help us understand whether the crisis facing the wine world, both Italian and international, is a conjunctural crisis or whether it is a structural issue. As you know by now from April 14 to 17 there...
French suicide
We are witnessing in France a penalizing attitude toward wine, both promotionally and culturally. Is there a risk that such a "vision" will take hold in Italy as well? All wine lovers, even Italian ones, if they have not started...
DoctorWine’s selection for Vinitaly
As we do every year, DoctorWine will have its own booth at Vinitaly (April 14-17) where we will hold 12 seminars featuring the best Italian wines and offer a selection of about seventy wines to dispensers. All this for Vinitaly...
The three wine fairs
Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris, Prowein and Vinitaly within two months. Are three wine fairs in Europe too many? It is too early to tell, but it does not seem that Vinitaly, the Italian trade fair, is being challenged. We...
Francesco Dammicco, one of us
I have known Francesco - Franco - Dammicco since the mid-1980s. At the time, he was working for the Manifesto, which was the newspaper that hosted the first Gambero Rosso-branded inserts. Today, having concluded his decades-long relationship with GR, he...
Always the familiar
To those who claim that the guides always review "the usual knowns," I softly point out that in decades of critiquing wineries we have truly discovered many. And the work of discovery never stops, because we taste thousands of wines...
For a fistful of yeast
I am reposting, after what was recently stated on television, For a Fistful of Yeast, an old editorial that was even corrected to me by Professor Luigi Moio, since I at most divulge and have no scientific expertise on the...
Wine no more? Let’s think about it
The attacks that wine is undergoing, not least from the World Health Organization, worry anyone who knows this beautiful world closely. Watch out for the current "Wine no more". The wine world has so many things to deal with that,...
Long live Banfi and long live Ezio Rivella, 20 years later
I republish an editorial I wrote in the Gambero Rosso almost two decades ago. I do this by remembering Cavalier Ezio Rivella, my friend Ezio, who left us a few weeks ago. At the time I was harshly criticized for...
The oenological case
Roberto Di Meo is currently one of the best interpreters of Italian "bianchista" oenology. This is demonstrated by many wines, but the last one he let me taste is a real oenological case: a Fiano with a stay of almost...
Interpreting wine
Only by knowing how to interpret a wine will I be able to understand it, in a kind of dialectic in which the characteristics of that wine and my ability to analyze it organoleptically can enable me to recognize it...
American wine criticism between expertise and competition
Evaluations of Italian wines by major American critics diverge strikingly. It comes to mind that this is a kind of score marketing, that is, they take into account principles governing competition and editorial positioning. American wine critics who cover Italy...
Old Raspa
Edoardo Raspelli, the "Raspa," one of the historic leading signatures of Italian food journalism, was fired by Gedi (publisher of Repubblica and La Stampa) via pec, without even a phone call of notice. Where did respect go? Especially since we...
Talking about wine
Parlare di vino senza essere fraintesi non è facile, bisogna cercare di spiegare questioni anche tecniche in modo che siano di immediata comprensione per tutti. Parlare di vino è difficile, su questo non c’è dubbio. Provare a spiegarlo, soprattutto a...
The bad vintages
Woe to generalize. The pretense of judging an absolute vintage can lead to considering as bad vintages that in some areas are not bad at all. Because of the shape of Italy, the climate can be very different from one...
Happy New Year 2024
Our wish is that 2024 can be an extraordinary year of growth, love and success for all. Let’s put this bad 2023 behind us and look forward. With the arrival of the new year, we would like to express our...
To celebrate New Year’s Eve
The midnight toast is somewhat of a rite of passage, although it is now increasingly commercialized. We like to imagine it at home, among friends, with an unassuming, special bottle that can be the emblem of a different, better year....
Happy Holidays from DoctorWine
Editor Daniele Cernilli and all of us in the editorial staff wish you a happy holiday season and a merry Christmas, amidst delicacies, wines and gifts; amidst moments of merriment and moments of reflection. Most of all, we wish you...
As of today we’re on www.doctorwine.wine
Save the date: today represents another important step in the evolution of our network. From now on to read DoctorWine you need to click on doctorwine.wine, while our old link doctorwine.it will only remain active as an archive. Like all...
The adventures of DoctorWine
A very difficult year is drawing to a close, one of high inflation and an economic crisis at home, along with wars and an environmental crisis abroad. It wasn’t easy for anyone but we at DoctorWine can be satisfied over...
Putting the cart before the horse
This is custom heading element I am taking up, expanding on, an old editorial from 2017 that I feel is really very timely. During one of the last visits to the Cote d’Or, the true Eldorado of Burgundy, one of...
The misunderstanding about the Top Hundred
This is custom heading element The ranking of this year’s top one hundred wines on Wine Spectator, the so-called Top Hundred, has come out, and the press-especially the national press-is competing to call the winning wine “the best in the...
Chardonnay, Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio
If we take a look at the white wines spread worldwide, we find that Italy is known for Pinot Grigio, much to the chagrin of our native grape varieties. I consider the readers of DoctorWine to be experts and knowledgeable,...
Too much wine?
The stock figure in Italy is really worrying, not even a poor harvest like the one that just ended can balance the situation (at what price then?). It is time for the industry, with the support of policy, to plan...
The service temperatures
That of wine serving temperatures is a topic, in my opinion, that is little covered and much more important than people think. I begin with a little illustrative story. Giorgio Grai, who was a famous South Tyrolean winemaker and winemaker,...
Indigenous to whom?
Are we really sure that our use of the adjective native referring to grape varieties is correct? In the historical ebbs and flows of Italian wine, we went from the exaltation of international grape varieties in the 1990s to the...