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...
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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...
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...
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....
Doctorwine’s essential guide to the wines of Italy turns 10
PRESS RELEASE – The milestone will be celebrated in two stages together with many great protagonists of Italian wine production and the vast audience that has always followed Daniele Cernilli and DoctorWine: in MILAN (Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at...