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Gambero Rosso’s 40th Anniversary

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Of the 47 years I have spent working in the wine industry, half of them were spent playing an important role at Gambero Rosso, to which I therefore owe a great deal. On the occasion of this publication’s 40th anniversary,...
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Col d’Orcia, The Glorious Five

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Five vintages ending in 5—from 1975 to 2015—span half a century of Brunello di Montalcino Col d’Orcia. Francesco Marone Cinzano and his son Santiago brought them together in a series of tastings held in Milan and Rome. Among the Riserva...
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Today in Rome: the DoctorWine Grand Tasting

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by Stefania Vinciguerra0
Today, Saturday, October 10, we look forward to seeing you at Spazio Novecento for the presentation of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2027. From 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., we’re hosting an afternoon open to wine enthusiasts to taste...
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Now the DoctorWine Avatar is answering your questions

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Daniele Cernilli’s avatar has already shared information about wines, articles, and recipes in the Reels on our social media channels. Now, with a new feature in the app, it can also listen to users’ questions and respond either verbally or...
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Today in Milan: the DoctorWine Grand Tasting

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by Stefania Vinciguerra0
Today, Saturday, October 3, marks the launch of the 13th edition of the Essential Guide to Italian Wines, and the day is divided into two parts: – the awards ceremony, by invitation only, in the morning at the Teatro Manzoni,...
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Daniele Cernilli awarded by Istituto Grandi Marchi

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The Istituto Grandi Marchi honored the founder and director of DoctorWine in Rome for his contribution to the story of Italian wine. Daniele Cernilli is the first Italian to receive this award, which has previously been given to international figures...
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Summary DoctorWine Seals 2027

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To help those who want to find all the single Seals from The Essential Guide to Italian Wines 2027, here is a summary with all the necessary links. Just a reminder:the “Seal” is the symbol of the award presented by...
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Double and Triple Seals 2027

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Here is the top tier of our pyramid for this thirteenth edition of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine. The Double and Triple Seals 2027. For us, these are the best Italian wines for the coming season—truly magnificent wines that,...
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The Aristocratic Wine List makes its debut in Rome

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The new menu for the Cafè Romano Restaurant, conceived and curated by Daniele Cernilli, was unveiled on the Terrazza Romana at the Hotel d’Inghilterra. Over 90 wines showcase the great winemaking families that have shaped the history of Italian wine,...
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The Hard-to-Find Wines

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
For The Essential Guide to Italian Wine, coming soon, we’ve featured three wines that are practically impossible to find. We chose to call them “Hard-to-Find Wines” and describe their organoleptic characteristics without judging them, leaving them unrated—for the first time...
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Bonilli and Petrini

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli1
Twelve years after the passing of Stefano Bonilli and a few months after that of Carlin Petrini, Daniele Cernilli remembers two of the leading figures in Italian food and wine culture. Different in character and vision, often at odds but...
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Rancia vs. Fontalloro: The Big Match in Fèlsina

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Fattoria di Fèlsina is celebrating a series of anniversaries with a double vertical tasting of its two signature wines. Nine vintages are compared in an ideal pairing of elegance and power, curated by Daniele Cernilli. This year at the Fattoria...
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Silvano & Silvano

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Two men with the same name, Silvano Formigli and Silvano Prompicai, two very different Chianti Classico wines. A personal recollection that starts from Fèlsina’s 60 years and goes back to the early 1980s, when Ama and Fèlsina were still little-known...
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Illustrious and unknown

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Small tribute to some little-known figures in Italy but who have done so much to make Italian cuisine and our wines known in the United States. If Italian wine and food play an important role in the American world today,...
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The wine crisis continues

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
The wine crisis shows no sign of ending. From the positive experience of 15 years of DoctorWine comes a proposal: make quality events and restaurants more accessible to bring new generations closer to the world of wine. Daniele Cernilli talks...
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Wine tradition: identity or myth?

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
What does it really mean to call a wine “traditional”? Behind an overused term lies history, marketing and territorial identity. Daniele Cernilli reflects on the relationship between memory and modernity, questioning the too casual use of a word that often...
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Goodbye Carlin

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Daniele Cernilli ‘s affectionate remembrance of Carlo Petrini, “Carlin,” the founder of Slow Food and a decisive figure in world food and wine culture: from his beginnings in Bra to the birth of Arci Gola, from the Guida Vini d’Italia...
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A remembrance of Alessio Di Majo

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Daniele Cernilli remembers his friendship with Alessio Di Majo, a key figure in Molisian vitienology. Alessio left us on April 19, leaving everyone dismayed and saddened. It was among the things I didn’t want to experience. I knew he hadn’t...
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The Gold of Paola Di Mauro

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Paola di Mauro’s farm in Colle Picchioni is turning 50 years old. There will be celebrations and memories. But alongside the latter, Daniele Cernilli wants to reintroduce a story he wrote in 2014 that he has slightly revised, updating it...
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Daniele Cernilli talks about Romangia at Vinitaly 2026

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The masterclass organized by the Terre di Romangia Consortium at Vinitaly Tasting – The DoctorWine Selection and led by Daniele Cernilli, analyzed territory, grape varieties and style through ten wines. Focus on wind, Cannonau and varietal recovery. Romangia was the...
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All the DoctorWine Guide at your fingertips on the app

Stefania Vinciguerra
by Stefania Vinciguerra0
The Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2026 is now available in a new app: completely revamped, more intuitive, to carry with you at all times. Available for Android and iOS, in Italian and English. And this fall, the...
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15 years of DoctorWine: independence, criticism, vision

Stefania Vinciguerra
by Stefania Vinciguerra0
c_row] Fifteen years ago DoctorWine was born. An independent project, born to tell the story of Italian wine with rigor and freedom of judgment. A tale of Italian wine that continues, with the same curiosity as then. Stefania Vinciguerra tells...
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The DoctorWine Selection returns for Vinitaly Tasting

Stefania Vinciguerra
by Stefania Vinciguerra0
For more than 10 years, DoctorWine has been running the Vinitaly Tasting – The DoctorWine Selection space to celebrate the excellence of Italian wine. This well-established partnership is also confirmed for Vinitaly 2026, scheduled to take place in Verona April...
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Watch out for those four

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
It was the year 1993, and this photo testifies to a pioneering way of working, at least seen through today’s eyes: a “de visu” operational meeting for the 1994 Guide to the Wines of Italy. We were meeting in Viareggio,...
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Historical vertical tasting of Riserva Ducale Oro Ruffino

Iolanda Maggio
by Iolanda Maggio0
Ruffino: a Chianti Classico released with the 1927 vintage that made the history of the appellation. It became Gran Selezione with the disciplinary change, retained the diction Riserva in its name (an exemption for historicity) and accounts for 40 percent...
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DoctorWine’s last tastings at Santi Apostoli

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
A move involves a lot of things: each object brings with it memories and rekindles particular situations, which will then have to be recontextualized. So many things accumulate over so many years and, in our case, so many bottles, some...
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The 10 most read articles in 2025

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Once again this year we bring you the very special ranking of the 10 most read articles on DoctorWine in the year just ended. A clear picture emerges. On the one hand, the interest is in drinking well without bleeding...