Tag : history of wine

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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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Farewell to Emidio Pepe, the patriarch of Abruzzo wine

Editorial Staff
by Editorial Staff0
With the passing of Emidio Pepe, one of the great champions of Italian wine is gone. A pioneer of high-quality Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, he demonstrated—at a time when few believed it possible—that the region’s great wines could stand the test of...
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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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Wine as a cultural category: Sorelli’s book

Stefania Vinciguerra
by Stefania Vinciguerra0
The Molecule of Civilization proposes a reading of wine as an interpretive tool of human history. An ambitious operation that intercepts a gap in contemporary wine discourse: much technique, little cultural elaboration. When Director Cernilli turned this book over to...
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A century of Monfortino di Giacomo Conterno, historical vertical tasting

Vinogodi
by Vinogodi0
We decided to reintroduce today an extraordinary and unique tasting that Vinogodi, aka Marco Manzoli, proposed to us in 2014, who wanted to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Monfortino in his own way. We have updated it with tastings of...