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 the Wines of Italy. Of course, 3 stars is the maximum.

The stars constitute an overall assessment of the winery, not directly related to the wines presented and rated in the current edition of the guide, but linked to other parameters. The importance of the brand, first of all, its emblematicity in the territory to which it belongs. Then its path over the past decades, quality reliability and international image.

The producers in the guide who have the maximum three-star rating this year are 137 throughout Italy, with 10 new entries: Ettore Germano in Piedmont; Carpineto, Castello di Ama, Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Tenute, Il Marroneto, Montevertine, Rocca delle Macìe Famiglia Zingarelli in Tuscany; Tenute Chiaromonte in Puglia; and Passopisciaro and Girolamo Russo in Sicily.

Here are listed all the 3 Star Producers:

A-D:

Allegrini, Veneto
Elio Altare, Piedmont
Altemasi, Trentino
Antinori, Tuscany
Antoniolo, Piedmont
Argiolas, Sardinia
Baglio del Cristo in Campobello, Sicily
Bellavista, Lombardy
Berlucchi Franciacorta, Lombardy
Bertani, Veneto
Biondi Santi – Tenuta Greppo, Tuscany
Giacomo Borgogno e Figli, Piedmont
Brovia, Piedmont
Ca’ del Bosco, Lombardy
Cantina Bolzano / Kellerei Bozen, South Tyrol
Cantina Kellerei Girlan, South Tyrol
Cantina Kellerei Tramin, South Tyrol
Cantina San Michele Appiano / Kellerei St. Michael Eppan, South Tyrol
Cantina Terlan / Kellerei Terlan, South Tyrol
Cantine Lunae, Liguria
Capezzana, Tuscany
Arnaldo Caprai, Umbria
Carpineto, Tuscany
Casanova di Neri, Tuscany
Juval Castle Unterortl, South Tyrol
Castle of Ama, Tuscany
Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany
Castello della Sala, Umbria
Castello di Fonterutoli, Tuscany
Castello di Monsanto, Tuscany
Castello di Spessa, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Castello di Volpaia, Tuscany
Cavalleri, Lombardy
Cavit, Trentino
Ceretto, Piedmont
Michele Chiarlo, Piedmont
G. Battista Columbu, Sardinia
Giacomo Conterno, Piedmont
Coppo, Piedmont
Cottanera, Sicily
Cusumano, Sicily
Romano Dal Forno, Veneto
Marco De Bartoli, Sicily
Dievole, Tuscany
Donnafugata, Sicily

F-O

Famiglia Cotarella, Latium
Fattoria Zerbina, Romagna
Livio Felluga, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Fèlsina, Tuscany
Ferrari Trento, Trentino
Gianfranco Fino Viticoltore, Apulia
Florio, Sicily
Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Estates, Tuscany
Fontanafredda, Piedmont
Fontodi, Tuscany
Frescobaldi, Tuscany
Gabbas, Sardinia
Gaja, Piedmont
Garofoli, Marche
Ettore Germano, Piedmont
Bruno Giacosa, Piedmont
Elio Grasso, Piedmont
Grattamacco, Tuscany
Gravner, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Gumphof, South Tyrol
Il Colombaio di Santa Chiara, Tuscany
The Marroneto, Tuscany
Il Pollenza, Marche
Illuminati, Abruzzo
Isole e Olena, Tuscany
Jermann, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Köfererhof, South Tyrol
Le Macchiole, Tuscany
Les Crêtes, Aosta Valley
Lungarotti, Umbria
Marchesi di Barolo, Piedmont
Marchesi di Grésy, Piedmont
Bartolo Mascarello, Piedmont
Masciarelli, Abruzzo
Masi – Serego Alighieri, Veneto
Massolino Vigna Rionda, Piedmont
Mastroberardino, Campania
Miani, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Monchiero Carbone, Piedmont
Monsupello, Lombardy
Montevertine, Tuscany
Montevetrano, Campania
Muri-Gries, South Tyrol
Nino Franco, Veneto
Nino Negri, Lombardy
Oasi degli Angeli, Marche
Ornellaia and Masseto, Tuscany

P-W:

Palari, Sicily
Passopisciaro, Sicily
Piaggia, Tuscany
Pieropan, Veneto
Pietracupa, Campania
Pio Cesare, Piedmont
Planeta, Sicily
Poggio di Sotto, Tuscany
Poliziano, Tuscany
Prottori del Barbaresco, Piedmont
Querciabella, Tuscany
Giuseppe Quintarelli, Veneto
Quintodecimo, Campania
Raccaro, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Re Manfred Terre degli Svevi, Basilicata
Ricasoli, Tuscany
Roagna I Paglieri, Piedmont
Rocca delle Macìe Family Zingarelli, Tuscany
Ruffino, Tuscany
Russiz Superiore, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Girolamo Russo, Sicily
San Leonardo, Trentino
San Patrignano, Romagna
Luciano Sandrone, Piedmont
Schiopetto, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Sella&Mosca, Sardinia
Sottimano, Piedmont
Tasca d’Almerita, Sicily
Fiorano Estate, Latium
Tenuta San Guido, Tuscany
Tenuta Sette Ponti, Tuscany
Chiaromonte Estates, Apulia
Tenute Dettori, Sardinia
Tiefenbrunner – Schlosskellerei Turmhof, South Tyrol
Franco Toros, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Tua Rita, Tuscany
Umani Ronchi, Marche
Valentini, Abruzzo
Velenosi, Marche
Venica&Venica, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Vie di Romans, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Vietti, Piedmont
Villa Bucci, Marche
Vodopivec, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Volpe Pasini, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Elena Walch, South Tyrol

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