DIVORCE OFFICIAL BETWEEN GAMBERO ROSSO AND SLOW FOOD. THE VINI D’ITALIA WINE GUIDE WILL BE PUBLISHED SOLELY BY GAMBERO ROSSO WHILE SLOW FOOD HAS A NEW GUIDE SET TO BE RELEASED BY 2010

Slow Food says farewell to Gambero Rosso: after over 20 years of working together, the collaboration between the two groups to produce the Vini d’Italia wine guide has been broken. The president of Gambero Rosso, Paolo Cuccia, and the president of Slow Food Italia, Roberto Burdese, recently made a consensual agreement to conclude the collaboration that had successfully printed 22 publications of the Vini d’Italia wine guide since its first release in November 1987.
The guide will continue to be published by Gambero Rosso while Slow Food Italia will be dedicated to a new wine initiative that will also include a guide but which won’t be ready until 2010.

The decision was made in total agreement between the guide’s editors, Daniele Cernilli, director of Gambero Rosso, and Pierluigi Piumatti, president of Slow Food publishing. In sanctioning the conclusion of the co-editing of the Vini d’Italia guide, Cuccia and Burdese noted, however, that this does not exclude different and new forms of collaboration between Slow Food Italia and Gambero Rosso in the future, and they both emphasized how their collaboration over the past two decades has contributed significantly to the development of the Italian wine sector, to the improvement of both the quality of Italian wine and its success on a global level.
Vini d’Italia, which is today published in English and French, has successfully promoted Italian wine with the “tre bicchieri” (three glass) awarding system and increased a positive consensus towards quality Italian wines around the world.