"OPERA WINE", BY "WINE SPECTATOR" & VINITALY, THE PRESTIGIOUS "PREVIEW" TO THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN WINE FAIR WILL BE BACK IN VERONA ON APRIL 6TH.

Crisis or no crisis, the love for Italian wine in the States is not about to change. Italian wine remains the leader in volume and value of important wines, despite a slight slowdown in 2012 and after a record 2011. And the “Italian” team of wineries selected by "Wine Spectator" for the second edition of "Opera Wine" (www.operawine.it), hasn’t changed either, or rather, has hardly changed from 2012. This is the tasting event that the prestigious US magazine organizes, together with Vinitaly, and that WineNews is able to anticipate to its readers.
The turnover of the 103 wineries that represent the top of the entire Italian production is minimal for "Wine Spectator", and they will offer wines for the tasting event on April 6th in Verona, the prestigious and tasty preview of Vinitaly (to be held April 7-10th, www.vinitaly.com).
There are seven "new entries": Cecchi, Caesars, The Poggione The Macchiole, Marchesi di Barolo, Terre degli Svevi and Villa Sandi, that will take the place of the seven wineries - Bertani, Fattoria Le Pupille, Gancia, Ciccio Zaccagnini, Carpené Malvolti, Cavit, Tenute Sella & Mosca.

Focus – The wineries of “Opera Wine 2013”

Abazzia di Novacella Aldo Conterno Allegrini Altesino Argentiera Argiolas Arnaldo Caprai Avignonesi Barone Ricasoli Bellavista Biondi-Santi Bisol Braida di Giacomo Bologna Bruno Giacosa Ca’ del Bosco Cantina Terlano Carpineto Casale del Giglio Casanova di Neri Castellare di Castellina Castello Banfi Castello di Ama Castello di Volpaia Castelluccio Cecchi Ceretto Cesari Col d’Orcia Cusumano Damilano Di Majo Norante Donnafugata Drei Donà Duca di Salaparuta Ercole Velenosi Falesco Fattoria del Cerro Fattoria di Felsina Fattoria Zerbina Ferrari Fratelli Lunelli Feudi di San Gregorio Folonari Fontodi Gaja Galardi Giuseppe Mascarello & Figlio Hofstätter Il Poggione Le Macchiole Leonildo Pieropan Les Crêtes Librandi Livio Felluga Luciano Sandrone Lunae Bosoni Lungarotti Marchesi Antinori Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi Marchesi di Barolo Marco Felluga Masciarelli Masi Mastroberardino Mastrojanni Mazzei Mezzacorona Michele Chiarlo Mionetto Mirafiore Montevetrano Nino Negri Paolo Scavino Pecchenino Petrolo Pio Cesare Planeta Prunotto Renato Ratti Rocca delle Macìe San Felice Santa Margherita Silvio Nardi Siro Pacenti Suavia Tasca d’Almerita Tedeschi Tenuta dell’Ornellaia Tenuta di Biserno Tenuta San Guido Tenuta San Leonardo Tenuta Sette Ponti Terre Bianche Terre degli Svevi Terredora di Paolo Testamatta - Bibi Graetz Tommasi Tormaresca Umani Ronchi Valdicava Vietti Villa Sandi Zenato Zonin