News The global value of wine in 2021 reached 245.6 billion euros. In Italy 14.2 billion “Wine Report” by Cross Border Growth Capital and Vino.com: the global alcoholic beverage market is worth €1,317 billion, 42% from beer Florence, 22.01.2022
News Direct distribution and import: more and more Italian wine companies are investing in it Feudi di San Gregorio makes its debut in Germany. And joins experiences such as those of Giv, Santa Margherita, Zonin, Mezzacorona, Iwb, Banfi Sorbo Serpico, 24.01.2022
News Italian Pinot Grigio is growing all over the world, improving its position, above all in the US & UK 2.4 million hectoliters bottled in 2021 in the Triveneto (+6% compared to 2020), and DOC delle Venezie represents 77% of the total Verona, 19.01.2022
News WINE POLICIES Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and wine: no worries. MEP Paolo De Castro statements “There is a difference between recommendations and regulatory acts. In the short term, I do not expect major changes for wine or labeling” Brussels, 19.01.2022
News WINENEWS PREVIEWS Business in Montalcino: Elisabetta Gnudi Angelini (Caparzo) buys 4.5 hectares of Brunello vineyards Montalcino, 20.01.2022
News INTERESTING FACTS Wine tourism: it’s women’s call. Bookings are made closer and closer to visits to the winery Florence, 14.01.2022
News VIVITE Between new vines and “traditional” resistant varieties, genetics in wine is increasingly advanced The reflections of geneticists and institutions gathered by the Alleanza delle Cooperative Rome, 19.01.2022
News International trade fairs: unknowns from Covid infection peak & the green light for foreign vaccines Trade fair calendars (including wine & food fairs) at risk if pandemic and regulations do not allow the arrival and influx of foreign operators Milan, 18.01.2022
News WINE TERRITORIES Brunello di Montalcino record 2021, on the wave of the extraordinary 2015 and 2016 vintages Montalcino, 18.01.2022
News The “Women in Wine & Spirits International Award” went to Cristina Mariani May Acknowledgment for Banfi’s “drive towards corporate social responsibility”, especially on the issue of sustainability Montalcino, 18.01.2022
News DATA Shipments of Italian wine, in the first 10 months of 2021, at 5.82 billion euros: +13% on 2020 WineNews analysis of Istat data: better than 2019 (+10%), thanks to the US and Germany, which together are worth 40% of exports Montalcino, 18.01.2022
News WINE AND CRITICS “Best Italian Wines of 2021” by Ian d’Agata, Brunello di Montalcino Fuligni 2016 at no. 1 The great Tuscan red dominates the list of the wine writer. On the podium Barolo Monfortino 2015 by Conterno, Brunello 2016 Riserva by Poggio di Sotto Hong Kong, 17.01.2022
News Investments in wine have made 10.4% per year in the last three years. Also thanks to Italy Data from Oeno, which allows non-experts to invest, and is increasingly looking to Italy London, 17.01.2022
News WINE TERRITORIES First, Don Giacomo Cauda and now Ruchè Producers Association, which invests in territorial marketing Positive results of the first step of the project involving wineries, companies, municipalities of the small but historic DOCG of Castagnole Monferrat Castagnole Monferrato, 14.01.2022
News CURIOSITIES Inter and Juve on the pitch, Umbria on the table with Caprai wines and Vissani’s recipes The gastronomic backstage of the Super Cup, with Sagrantino in the glasses of VIPs such as the coach Roberto Mancini, Paolo Bonolis, Jean Alesi Milan, 13.01.2022
News Asti DOCG has closed a stellar 2021: promotion and 102 million bottles produced Bubbles of the ATP Finals and the football champions grew +11%, and the Ministry of Agriculture has approved modifications to the regulations Asti, 12.01.2022
News Prosecco DOC breaks record again in 2021: over 627 million certified bottles Consortium & Valoritalia data: 71.5 million bottles the rosé share. Value of bottles and exports growing Treviso, 12.01.2022
News “Anteprime di Toscana” on March 19-25, “Grandi Langhe” on April 4-5, “Anteprima Amarone” in June The calendar of previews of the top Italian wine territories is being redefined. Ascheri (Barolo): “but we managed market even without events” Florence, 12.01.2022
News UK CRITICS “Wines of The Year” 2021 by “Decanter”, Terlano at the top with Dom Pérignon and Henschke London, 11.01.2022
News THE PAST AND THE FUTURE Erbaluce di Caluso heading towards a new era as production, values and the market are growing The numbers of the Consorzio Vini DOCG di Caluso and Confagricoltura show the revival of one of Piedmont’s historic wines Caluso, 11.01.2022
News PROMOTION New York and Houston: Chianti in the USA, paired with cinema, pizza and Tex-Mex New York, 11.01.2022
News STATEMENTS COPA-COGEGA: “wine is inseparably linked to the European cultures” Brussels, 10.01.2022
News DATA “Cantina Italia”: wine stocks, as of December 2021, amount to 62.9 million hectolitres Stocks grow in December 2020 (+3.3). 23.7% of production is in Veneto, 51.7% is PDO and 27.6% PGI: Prosecco represents 10% Rome, 10.01.2022
News RANKING “Wine Lover’s Index”, Italy is the perfect destination for wine lovers from all over the world The Bounce study rewards Italy and its ampelographic richness and variety. Portugal and Spain on the podium, France in fourth place Montalcino, 10.01.2022
News WINE RANKINGS Wine Spectator’s “Top 10 Values of 2021”: Castello Banfi at no. 2 and Alois Lageder at no. 6 New York, 07.01.2022
News MARKET AND COLLECTING Fine wine, record Liv-Ex in 2021. Italy continues to grow, with Tignanello Antinori in the lead Year-end figures from the reference platform for the secondary investment wine market. Liv-Ex 100 at +23.1%, #Italy100 at +13.9% London, 07.01.2022
News MARKETS AND VISION Santa Margherita invests in the USA, with Roco Winery. And the direct-to-consumer channel is opened A strategic operation for the Marzotto family group, which will be able to communicate with the end consumer (and sell its wines in 17 US states) Portland, 07.01.2022
News FOREIGN MARKETS “Vintage Prosecco - Christmas”, the bubbles “signed” by Queen Elizabeth 04.01.2022
News France, Italy and Spain lead the world shipments. But wine “weighs” more in Georgia Aawe: wine exports are worth 6.29% of the Caucasian country’s shipments. Italy’s $7.19 billion is worth 1.45% of exports Los Angeles, 03.01.2022
News Moscato d’Asti “starring” in “House of Gucci”, with Lady Gaga and Adam Driver Cinema and wine: Ridley Scott’s box-office hit film features a bottle of Cantina Bera from Neviglie 05.01.2022
News COVID EFFECT Events and pandemic, VeronaFiere postpones Fieragricola to March (and Vinitaly is confirmed in April Decision to “ensure the international quality of events”, while national and consumer events go ahead (“Moto Bike Expo” in January 2022) Verona, 04.01.2022
News TECHNOLOGY What would the world be without Apps? From wine tastings to wine tourism, the must-haves The latest arrival - among big data, wine lovers and producers - is called “Yes We Wine”. The most popular is still Vivino Montalcino, 30.12.2021
News Carlo Giacosa, Feudi di San Gregorio, Cavallotto at the top of “50 Best Wines of 2021” by Vinepair Giacomo Mori, Fontodi, Argiano, Massolino, Argiolas and Venturini Baldini are also in the US portal’s ranking New York, 04.01.2022
News Hyle Capital Partners has invested in Contri Spumanti, which boasts a turnover of 100 million euros The “Finance for Food One” fund is supporting the company founded in 1959 and today led by Paolo Contri, who will continue to lead the company Verona, 30.12.2021
News ONLINE The Wine Net Italian Co-op Excellence looks beyond the pandemic and launches its new e-commerce 150 products of the first business network created to promote Italian wine Cooperatives on the marketplace CHIETI, 23.12.2021
News BUSINESS AND TERRITORY From finance to wine: Luigi Frascino (Frascino Group) in Chianti Classico, with Boschetto Campacci The wines of Castelnuovo Berardenga winery, in the heart of the Black Rooster region, are supervised by Italy’s No. 1 wine expert, Riccardo Cotarella Castelnuovo Berardenga, 29.12.2021
