News Italian wine exports: in July 2025, the deficit grew to -0.9% in value and -3.4% in volume Istat data analyzed by WineNews: €4.63 million total in the first 7 months of the year. The US, for the first time, is in negative territory Rome, 16.10.2025
News Effect of tariffs: Italian agri-food exports to the US at -23% in August 2025 (on August 2024) The impact of the first month with 15% tariffs (and the uncertainty up to that point) in the analyses by CIA, Coldiretti, Unione Italiana Vini (UIV) Rome, 16.10.2025
News The entire food & beverage universe in Forbes Italia’s 2025 Top 100 Managers ranking Among the names in wine, Franco Morando (Montalbera), Massimo Romani (Argea), Alessandro Gallo (Castello di Albola), Fedele Angelillo (Mack & Schühle) Milan, 16.10.2025
News THE AWARD WineNews wins the 18th “Collio Award” for “best digital storytelling” in the region The award ceremony will take place on October 26 in Cormòns, during the debut of “Collio Evolutions” (October 25-27) by Consorzio Vini Collio Cormons, 16.10.2025
News TREND Among tourists of Italy, both Italians and foreigners, the appreciation for wine sector grows Milan, 15.10.2025
News FOOD AND WINE LIBRARY “Wine, my life”: Riccardo Cotarella tells his story through culture, territory, and wine tradition Milan, 15.10.2025
News AWARDS When luxury hotels (also) produce wine: the wine excellences that have earned Michelin “Keys” 14 out of 188 overall. 3 establishments with “Three Keys” have vineyards and cellars: Castiglion del Bosco, Borgo Santo Pietro, Castello di Reschio Montalcino, 14.10.2025
News The first dictionary of sensory analysis arises: over 700 terms to express perception “Sensorium” was created and used over 20 years by Centro Studi Assaggiatori, which now makes it accessible to anyone Brescia, 15.09.2025
News INTERESTING FACTS Wine and motors: Antinori and Maserati, two leading Made in Italy brands, continue their partnership Bolgheri, 14.10.2025
News World wine market slows down in the first half of 2025: -2.3% in value at 16.7 billion euros Oive data: down also in volume (-3.7%) at 4.6 billion liters. The Us first importer (+6.5%) but with last trimester in negative Dijon, 12.10.2025
News NOW IN BOOKSTORES Gaddo Della Gherardesca narrates the history of his family, among the most important in Italy Entrepreneur, vine grower, and now writer, descendant of nobles of Bolheri and Count Ugolino, signs “Al tempo di una volta. Tracce di una vita” Castagneto Carducci, 14.10.2025
News AWARDS The 2026 Gambero Rosso “Vini d’Italia” Guide Special awards and “Tre Bicchieri” awards Best of the year awards include Alejandro Bulgheroni Family Vineyards, Giodo (Carlo and Bianca Ferrini), Monchiero Carbone, Bosio, and Ca’ du Ferrà… Rome, 13.10.2025
News Wine & communication: “The Real Soul of Sicily” by Cusumano in “Lürzer’s Archive” Campaign by Sicilian company, curated by GB22, receives one of the highest international awards dedicated to the creativity of excellence Partinico, 11.10.2025
News PROTEST Wine and landscape, the project of photovoltaic in Monferrato alarming producers The open letter by Ruché producer Luca Ferraris against “maxi photovoltaic plant among Altavilla Monferrato and Montemagno Monferrato” Altavilla Monferrato, 13.10.2025
News THE CASE Another victory for the “Prosecco System” as the European Union Court says no to “PriSecco” President Giancarlo Moretti Polegato: “The daily and joint commitment of three Consortiums works well” Treviso, 10.10.2025
News With harvest well underway in Italy, 36 million hectoliters of wine in stock on September 30, 2025 -9.6% compared to July, but +1.3% compared to September 2024. It is the photography taken by Icqrf report while Italy is harvesting Rome, 10.10.2025
News More resources for wine promotion, and more. Announcement by Minister Lollobrigida Lamberto Frescobaldi, president Unione Italiana Vini: “We have long believed that it is essential to implement a shock therapy approach to promotion” Chicago, 10.10.2025
News “MetodoContemporaneo”: Italy’s first permanent observatory on art and wine-growing landscapes A project by the University of Verona with with BAM! Strategie Culturali, which collects and recounts wine-growing realities as new cultural actors Milan, 08.10.2025
News THE RECOGNITION Roberta Corrà, among the managers in Italian wine, is the “Person of the Year” by “Wine Enthusiast” New York, 09.10.2025
News THE SCENARIO USA, Italian wine tries to look beyond tariffs: “concrete reaction” from producers and trade The sentiment recorded by Veronafiere at Vinitaly.USA. “Tariffs no longer the dominant issue. Main topics include focus on Gen Z and Millennials” Chicago, 07.10.2025
News Sandokan’s Prosecco DOC is born: Kabir Bedi signs a limited edition with Ponte1948 Ponte di Piave, 20.09.2025
News COLLECTING Dreamy wines and experiences auctioned off at Sotheby’s for Foundation of Cité du Vin of Bordeaux Bordeaux, 09.10.2025
News CURIOSITY Italy-Romania, a cultural and food bond, and which is celebrated also with wine Homage to a country among the major world producers, wanted by Romania Ambassador at the Holy See, George Gabriel Bologan Rome, 08.10.2025
News ITALIAN SOMMELIER FOUNDATION “Bibenda” 2026: 764 wines with “5 Grappoli” that tell Italian excellence, according to Fis “Tris” of Giacomo Conterno, Ettore Germano, Gaja, La Spinetta, Ca’ del Bosco, Terlano, Ferrari, Banfi, Felsina, Fontodi, Tua Rita, Casale del Giglio Rome, 08.10.2025
News THE REFLECTION The appeal of made in Italy, “an incredible power”, in the book by Gianni Gagliardo Rome, 08.10.2025
News WINE AND TERRITORY “Sos Marzemino”: Vallagarina producers and institutions of the territory stand together An association to save one of “flag vineyards” of Trentino arises, sung by Mozart in “Don Giovanni”, and capable of giving contemporary wines Isera, 07.10.2025
News “SUPER BARBERA” The process for the recognition of the Nizza DOCG Consortium begins: it will be operational in 2026 Stefano Chiarlo: “historical moment. In 20 years, we passed from being a small group of pioneers to almost 100 producers” Nizza Monferrato, 07.10.2025
News AT CASTLE OF GRINZANE CAVOUR “Barolo en Primeur” 2025: in auction, 4,000 liters of Barolo and Barbaresco for social projects Grinzane Cavour, 07.10.2025
News “Vene d’Oro” by Bizhan Bassiri tells the art, culture, identity of a territory, and wine connection The Iranian artist has created a permanent artwork in Montalcino (at WineNews) for the Bassiri Foundation’s “Vene d’Oro” Montalcino, 06.10.2025
News Italian wine is strategic for the US economy, with revenues of over $10 billion per year Tariffs and the relationship between the US and Italian wineries are the focus of the “wine2wine Business Forum” in Chicago, with Vinitaly.USA Chicago, 06.10.2025
News BETWEEN WINE AND CULTURE Pasqua arrives in Pantelleria and invests in the wine project of Chanel “Muse”: Carol Bouquet Riccardo Pasqua: “a “gem” nestled in our trajectory of value growth”. French model and actress: “an union of intentions” Pantelleria, 04.10.2025
News WINE, CULTURE, SPIRITUALITY The wines and vineyards of Abbeys and monasteries, witnesses of history and a scent of the future Professor Attilio Scienza’s thoughts at the Convent of the Santissima Annunciata in Franciacorta, directed by the Moretti family Rovato, 04.10.2025
News Wine businesses and institutions in Chicago to relaunch on Usa vital market, slowed down by duties Messages by Vinitaly.Usa (October, 5-6) with Italy controlling its most important and irreplaceable trade partner Chicago, 06.10.2025
News Italian wine in “Legacy Icons”, “Classics” and “New Voices” at “Opera Wine 2026” by Wine Spectator In Chicago, at Vinitaly.Usa, presented the selection of 150 wineries protagonists in Verona, the next April, 11, in classic preface by Vinitaly Chicago, 06.10.2025
News CURIOSITY Wine is also a matter of glass. And, Italesse launches that for Amarone della Valpolicella The glass for great red wine from Verona after those for Brunello di Montalcino, Barolo, Vermentino di Sardegna, Gallura and Ribolla Gialla di Oslavia Verona, 01.10.2025
News TERRITORIES IN THE WINE GLASS “Vini ad Arte” 2025: Romagna leaves behind even the last consequences of the flood After the decline in production due to landslides and downy mildew, bottling in the subzones also declines. But 2024 and 2025 look promising Faenza, 02.10.2025
