Illustrious and unknown
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,...
Tag : Daniele Cernilli
The wine crisis continues
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...
Gioietta Spalla, mother of Daniele Cernilli, passed away
The editorial staff of DoctorWine extends its deepest sympathy to director Daniele Cernilli on the passing of his dear mother, Gioietta Spalla, who passed away at the age of 96. Born April 3, 1930, the daughter of Erminio Spalla, Gioietta...
Wine tradition: identity or myth?
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...
Goodbye Carlin
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...
A remembrance of Alessio Di Majo
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...
The Gold of Paola Di Mauro
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...
Daniele Cernilli talks about Romangia at Vinitaly 2026
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...
All the DoctorWine Guide at your fingertips on the app
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...
Happy Easter to all of you
Editor Daniele Cernilli and the editorial staff of DoctorWine wish all readers a happy Easter, a time for pause and reflection that invites you to slow down and rediscover what really matters. At a time when everything is running fast,...
15 years of DoctorWine: independence, criticism, vision
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...
The DoctorWine Selection returns for Vinitaly Tasting
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...
Watch out for those four
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,...
Uncle Aldo
There are truly many, too many, friends in the wine world who have left us in 2025. I would like to remember them all, but I will dwell on Aldo Brachetti Peretti, owner of Il Pollenza. A man of great...
Historical vertical tasting of Riserva Ducale Oro Ruffino
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...
DoctorWine’s last tastings at Santi Apostoli
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...
The 10 most read articles in 2025
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...
Fans and wine guides
Controversy over wine guides often stems from a territorial cheer that biases judgments. But awards are not about parochialism: what matters is widespread quality, critical recognition and the time it takes for an area to really establish itself. Daniele Cernilli...
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from DoctorWine
Merry Christmas to all of you who love good food and good wine. The holidays are the perfect time to gather around a table, share authentic flavors and create memories that stay. Italian Christmas is a journey into regional traditions:...
Acidic drift ten years later
Daniele Cernilli picks up on an editorial from ten years ago that deals with a topic that is still on the agenda among experts, critics and even winemakers. I confess that that article of mine seems less old than I...
Caps, Heels and Miracles
This is the title of a booklet written by Maddalena Mazzeschi, a professional in the field of communication, public relations and marketing, which collects memories, anecdotes and stories from forty years of experience in this world. I know Maddalena Mazzeschi...
Wines and scores: repetita iuvant
Daniele Cernilli reposts an editorial from two years ago about whether or not wines should be evaluated with numerical scores. At a very sensitive time, for wine and for the world, that of wine scores may seem perhaps a futile...
Why I drink wine
Behind the choice to drink wine there can be several reasons, says Daniele Cernilli, but the main one is the hedonistic one: we drink wine because it is good, because we like it. Some of you may remember the movie...
Change to change?
Daniele Cernilli asks, and asks us, many questions about what lies ahead in the future of wine. Does everything in wine need to be changed? Communication, language, and then a diminished importance of origins and traditions? A wine that manifests...
Wines and grape varieties
Often, in common speech, we run the risk of confusing wines and grape varieties and defining a wine not by its territory of origin, but simply by the grape variety to which it belongs. Serious mistake! It is now a...
Four flavors plus one. The Bitter
Ready for the four flavors plus one, bitterness. How many times have we twisted our mouths at this taste that is generally contrary to our preferences since these, we saw in the “second episode,” from childhood are naturally predisposed toward...
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...
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...
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...