The 10 most read articles of 2024

We intentionally left out of this ranking the articles dedicated to the presentations of the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2025, both the one in Milan and the one in Rome, as well as the pages devoted to the award-winning wines in the guide itself. Every year they play the lion’s share of the most viewed articles, and this needs no comment. The Guide is perhaps the heart of our editorial network, and everything that revolves around it, both as events and awards, is of great interest.

We then come to the actual articles

The most widely read is the one that Daniele Cernilli dedicated to the end of the era of wine production and consumption as we have always seen it. Then the eternal question of the wine scores, yes or no, which always excites those who follow the wine world. In third place we find the editorial that talks about Sauvignon, the most loved and hated grape variety. In fourth place, not a pure editorial, but Stefania Vinciguerra’s account of one of our initiatives: that of the videos dedicated to 2025 award-winning wines, a sign that the video world has a strong following. We return to the topical issues covered by the director with an examination of the “friendly fire” against the French wine sector, definitely under attack. In sixth place we find an analysis of the Italian wine-growing reality

, with some general remarks. Seventh is the editorial devoted to the world of the yeasts, which traces the controversy on the topic related to the use of selected or “indigenous” yeasts while in eighth place returns Stefania Vinciguerra, who writes about the enemies of origin, i.e. those who favor the grape variety or method at the expense of the territory. Il nono posto vede Riccardo Viscardi con una provocazione delle sue: siamo proprio sicuri di avere the best grape varieties in the optimal territories? Daniele Cernilli’s editorial dedicated to the ? wines in large-scale distribution.

Following are links for those who would like to read (or reread) the top 10.

• Are we at the end of an era? by Daniele Cernilli

For several years in the wine industry there has been a discussion about the changes in consumption in various markets. Are we really at the end of an era? And what will the next one look like? Let’s hazard a few guesses.

• Wine scores by Daniele Cernilli

Reducing the judgment of a wine to a number (in our case in hundredths) is always a stretch that has the value of an indication, whose subjectivity is limited by the presence of a panel of tasters.

 

• Those who… Sauvignon by Daniele Cernilli

Sauvignon is a wine enjoyed by consumers around the world, perhaps because its aromas are unmistakable and varied.

 

• Tasted for you by DoctorWine by Stefania Vinciguerra

Starting this week, a new video feature dedicated to the wines we awarded in The Essential Guide to Italian Wines 2025 begins.

 

• French suicide by Daniele Cernilli

We are witnessing in France a penalizing attitude toward wine, both promotionally and culturally. Is there a risk of such a “vision” catching on in Italy as well?

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  Some general considerations by Daniele Cernilli

Reflecting on the data on Italian viticulture, interesting information emerges that makes us understand why Italy is the country of “wine artisans.”

• For a fistful of yeast by Daniele Cernilli

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 subject such as to do it myself.

• The enemies of origin by Stefania Vinciguerra

From the exaltation of the terroir of origin to that, in the opposite sense, of the grape variety or method. What matters most?

 

• Viticultural contaminations by Riccardo Viscardi

In light of current knowledge and also in view of increasingly pressing climate challenges, are we really sure that we have the best grape varieties in the optimal territories?

 

• Wine at the supermarket by Daniele Cernilli

Too often we hear that wines at the supermarket are poor quality wines, but while this may perhaps have been true in the past, it is now totally superseded by the increasing focus on the part of large-scale retail chains.