News From the Dolomites to Etna: the “Wines of the Year 2024: Italy” according to Uk magazine “Decanter” To sign them Poggio di Sotto, Conti Costanti, Tenuta San Guido, San Leonardo, G.B. Burlotto, Bertani, Allegrini, Girolamo Russo, and Florio London, 30.12.2024
News From tonsils to diuresis, the “healing qualities” of wine for papal archaeologists of yore Translated into Italian for the first time “On the Nature of Different Types of Wine,” a sixteenth-century work by Giacomo Profetto, physician to Pope Rome, 01.01.2025
News If union is strength: two made in Italy excellences together to promote the best of Italy The wines of Valpolicella and Parmigiano Reggiano launch the “Quality Heritage of Europe” project, a three-year partnership in European markets Verona, 31.12.2024
News THE ESTIMATES Record-breaking Italian sparkling wines: with New Year’s Eve over 100 million bottles uncorked Italian sparkling wines protagonist of 83% of Italian tables and a global export worth 2.3 billion euros according to Coldiretti Rome, 31.12.2024
News ITALIAN JEWELS The “heroic” vineyards of Mombarone officially enter in the national Register of rural landscape Turin, 30.12.2024
News NARRATIONS A new documentary tells how Italian winemakers are coping with climate change Milan, 19.12.2024
News WINE AND TERRITORY The world “Prosecco” dominates among sparkling wines. And that of Asolo exceeds 30 million bottles For the Montello DOCG new record, “with a constant growth in quantity and quality,” stresses the Consortium led by Michele Noal Asolo, 24.12.2024
News Lambrusco: the DOC one from Sorbara will now also be white. And the first subzone arrives It will be Monte Barello for Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro Doc. The changes in the procedural guidelines by Consorzio di Tutela Lambrusco Modena, 23.12.2024
News WINE & EVENTS 10 years of Wine & Siena, returning to the “City of the Palio” on January 25-27, 2025 Siena, 24.12.2024
News Wine in Piedmont, exports on 2023 hold, thanks to big reds. With a positive 2024 harvest In the volume “The Wine Year in Piedmont” 2024 the numbers and trends of one of the most important regions in the world wine scene Grinzane Cavour, 20.12.2024
News ECONOMY AND TERRITORY Turnover down, but profitability and net financial position up: Caviro’s balance sheet Italy’s No. 1 wine group by market share, grows “thanks to management rebalancing between Wine and Matter and Bioenergy sectors” Faenza, 20.12.2024
News THE CURIOSITY Franciacorta bubbles from the Berlucchi maison “light up” Times Square in New York On the legendary billboard at 1560 Broadway, the commercial-tribute to the creativity and insight that marked the territory’s turning point New York, 20.12.2024
News Italian Wine Brands, the board of directors proposes an extraordinary dividend of 4.6 million euros The initiative following the results of the Group headed by Alessandro Mutinelli, and to celebrate the 10 years since the quotation in Stock Market Milan, 18.12.2024
News EUROPEAN FUNDS National Wine Support Program: 323 million euros for the 2025/2026 wine year Decree for allocation of resources published. 144 million euros for vineyards, 98 for promotion. Sicily at the top with 51.2 million euros Rome, 19.12.2024
News SPARKLING WINES Ferrari Trento “Producer of the Year”, Berlucchi, Cleto Chiarli, and Firriato champions of category Special prizes of “Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships” 2024 by Tom Stevenson. With the best Italians for each denomination London, 19.12.2024
News Passing roots and values along to young people, which also thanks to wine, unites the community This was the invitation expressed at the close of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Collio Consortium, which has been also narrated in a book Milan, 18.12.2024
News Food and wine tourism grows in Italy: +12% compared to 2023 for 40.1 billion of economic impact “Rapporto sul Turismo Enogastronomico Italiano” 2024 by Roberta Garibaldi: it is the reaction to overtourism. Tuscany and Naples are top destinations Parma, 16.12.2024
News Garden vineyards, yesterday and today, a source of livelihood for Villas, Castles and historic homes ADSI report: they are part of the Italian heritage, 19.000 are in hospitality. In 2023 private individuals spent over €1.9 billion to preserve them Rome, 17.12.2024
News RESEARCH Alcoholic drinks, in Italy over 8 million people had risky consumption behaviors Milan, 17.12.2024
News TREND Tuscany, in the first 10 months 2024 less wine on the market: -1.4% compared to the same period 2023 “Red wine-driven” Region reflects in Avito numbers (bands and bottlings) the difficulties of red wines, and the scarce 2023 harvest Florence, 13.12.2024
News WINE & FOOTBALL Santa Margherita and Inter again together with a new Limited Edition of Prosecco Superiore Docg Milan, 21.11.2024
News ECONOMY Mezzacorona Group, the turnover exceeds 212 million thanks also to the “value” of sustainability Mezzocorona, 16.12.2024
News THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE SECTO Italian bubbles, for the holidays 250 million bottles will be uncorked worldwide for 1.7 billion In Italy? 95 million of corks will be uncorked for nearly €1 billion. Financial report Ovse-CevesUni: 2024 production at +9% compared to 2023 Rome, 16.12.2024
News VISIONS At the 75 year celebration of the Academy of Vine and Wine: the future of wine is change Academics, entrepreneurs and oenologists discussed economics, production, research, wine tourism and climate change, looking to the future Siena, 13.12.2024
News DATA Export, sparkling wines overcome still red and white wines. Unione Italiana Vini states that Rome, 13.12.2024
News VISIONS OF TERRITORY Fattoria La Parrina, in the heart of Maremma, becomes majority owned by Marchesi Antinori Investment in the name of the bond between the Antinori and Spinola families, on an agricultural and wine project Orbetello, 13.12.2024
News WINE POLITICS National Committee for PDO and PGI Wines, Michele Zanardo president for the next three years Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida: “procedural guidelines, essential to ensure quality and excellence of our wines” Rome, 12.12.2024
News VISIONS AND PROJECTS “Wine from macerated grapes” is now part of the Collio DOC specification, its cradle territory Cormons, 11.12.2024
News Wine & spirits, positive signs from world horeca, but with “moderation”, looking at 2025 Out of home consumption is growing again. Data from 15 leading markets in the world analyzed by Iwsr - International Wine & Spirits Research London, 12.12.2024
News Record-breaking Italian sparkling wines: in 2024 over a billion bottles on the market (+8% over 2023 355 million (+7%) will be uncorked between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Italy and in the world. Uiv Observatory and Ismea Rome, 11.12.2024
News ITALIAN MARKET Wine and gdo, in 2024 still dropping volumes (-1.7%). Values hold (+1.8%) with increasing prices Still wines suffer, mainly red, while sparkling wines increase. Circana data on the first 11 months of the year analyzed by WineNews Milan, 11.12.2024
News IN STOCK In November 2024, there were 49.1 million hectoliters of wine in Italian wine cellars, -7.7% compared to 2023 The numbers from the latest ICQRF report: 61.9% is in the Northern Regions, Veneto holds the most. The “stocks” are still high Rome, 11.12.2024
News Alcohol and wine are being demonized again in Europe. FEDERDOC against the Eurocare Campaign At the Parliament in Strasbourg, images of bottles (and Caravaggio’s “Bacchus”) in an exhibition that directly link consumption to cancer Strasbourg, 09.12.2024
News “50 Great Sparkling Wines of the World” 2025: Italy’s sparkling wines at the top of quality At the competition held in the Spanish Penedes, top honors for Bacio della Luna, La Scolca, Frescobaldi and Produttori di Cormons La Llacuna, 10.12.2024
News TURNOVER IN THE LEADERSHIP Chiara Lungarotti: “promoting the work of wine producers transmitting our culture with wine” Guiding the historical family winery, she is the new president of the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia, representing “the excellence of Italian wine” Milan, 09.12.2024
News WINE AND TERRITORY Igt Toscana: only “Toscana” (and no more also “Toscano”) on the label, and green light to “Spumante” From Tuscany region okay to amendments proposed by the Consortium guided by Cesare Cecchi. Now the path for the approval in Italy and Eu Florence, 06.12.2024
