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Happy Summer Holidays 2026 from DoctorWine

Editorial Staff
by Editorial Staff0
Once again this year, August 15 th arrives just as summer seems to be winding down. The cities empty out for summer holidays, dinner tables are set for larger gatherings, and life returns to a more leisurely pace. Perhaps this...
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Cantine Isola: 130 years of wines for every budget

Emanuele Baj Rossi
by Emanuele Baj Rossi0
Via Paolo Sarpi 30, in the heart of Milan. Forty square meters, two thousand wine labels, and a counter that’s a stage. Cantine Isola—a wine shop with a tasting bar—is celebrating its 130th anniversary and has no intention of moving,...
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Enoteca Cellar Sommelier, a gathering place for wine

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
In Rome’s Prati neighborhood, a small wine shop has developed a business model that goes beyond simply selling bottles. Tastings, classes, trips, and a community of wine enthusiasts show how, even during a difficult time for the industry, innovation and...
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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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That Brunello ’64

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
A story of passion, naiveté and redemption: the pursuit of a mythical Brunello that ended up in a braise and was found again 20 years later, to discover what great wine really means. In early 1978 I was new to...
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Vigneto Italia, interview with Piero Mastroberardino

Antonella Amodio
by Antonella Amodio0
Italian wine returns to the center of the institutional narrative with a campaign that reaffirms its cultural, identity and social value, going beyond the product dimension. From February 15, Vigneto Italia, the promotion project presented at the Ministry of Agriculture...
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Veronelli’s 100 years

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
One hundred years after the birth of Gino Veronelli, a remembrance of an erratic and brilliant master who forever changed the narrative of Italian wine, launching talent, discovering producers and bringing wine into the country’s cultural debate. Man, before the...
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Message in a bottle

Daniele Cernilli
by Daniele Cernilli0
Each wine not only tells of its aroma or taste, but also evokes the world that is underlying: terroir, grapes, winemaking technique, producer's philosophy--both scientific and humanistic aspects. Any wine is not just something to drink. The difference there is...