The 10 most read articles in 2025

Editorial Staff2 January 202612 January 2026

by Editorial Staff2 January 202612 January 20260

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...

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Fans and wine guides

Daniele Cernilli29 December 202518 December 2025

by Daniele Cernilli29 December 202518 December 20250

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...

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Merry Christmas and happy holidays from DoctorWine

Editorial Staff24 December 202516 December 2025

by Editorial Staff24 December 202516 December 20250

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:...

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Acidic drift ten years later

Daniele Cernilli8 December 20253 December 2025

by Daniele Cernilli8 December 20253 December 20250

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...

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Caps, Heels and Miracles

Daniele Cernilli3 November 202530 October 2025

by Daniele Cernilli3 November 202530 October 20250

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...

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Wines and scores: repetita iuvant

Daniele Cernilli28 July 202524 July 2025

by Daniele Cernilli28 July 202524 July 20250

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...

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Why I drink wine

Daniele Cernilli5 May 202530 April 2025

by Daniele Cernilli5 May 202530 April 20250

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...

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Change to change?

Daniele Cernilli10 March 20255 March 2025

by Daniele Cernilli10 March 20255 March 20250

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...

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Wines and grape varieties

Daniele Cernilli25 November 202426 November 2024

by Daniele Cernilli25 November 202426 November 20240

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...

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Four flavors plus one. The Bitter

Daniele Cernilli23 May 202422 May 2024

by Daniele Cernilli23 May 202422 May 20240

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...

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The Wines for Summer 2024

Daniele Cernilli6 May 20242 May 2024

by Daniele Cernilli6 May 20242 May 20240

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...

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Welcome back Fiorano Semillon

Daniele Cernilli22 April 202422 April 2024

by Daniele Cernilli22 April 202422 April 20240

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...

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Doc

Daniele Cernilli15 April 202415 April 2024

by Daniele Cernilli15 April 202415 April 20240

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...

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DoctorWine’s selection for Vinitaly

Daniele Cernilli25 March 20243 April 2024

by Daniele Cernilli25 March 20243 April 20240

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...

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For a fistful of yeast

Daniele Cernilli26 February 202426 February 2024

by Daniele Cernilli26 February 202426 February 20240

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...

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Talking about wine

Daniele Cernilli8 January 20249 January 2024

by Daniele Cernilli8 January 20249 January 20240

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...

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The bad vintages

Daniele Cernilli2 January 202414 December 2023

by Daniele Cernilli2 January 202414 December 20230

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...

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Happy New Year 2024

Editorial Staff30 December 20232 February 2024

by Editorial Staff30 December 20232 February 20240

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...

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To celebrate New Year’s Eve

Daniele Cernilli27 December 20239 January 2024

by Daniele Cernilli27 December 20239 January 20240

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....

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Doctorwine’s essential guide to the wines of Italy turns 10

Redazione DoctorWine4 September 202314 December 2023

by Redazione DoctorWine4 September 202314 December 20230

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...