"OPERA WINE 2018": "WINE SPECTATOR"AND THE MAGNIFICENT "107" (16 "NEW ENTRIES"). THE DATE IS APRIL 14TH IN VERONA FOR THE VINITALY CLASSIC PREVIEW. ALISON NAPJUS: “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO NARRATE THE DIVERSITY OF ITALIAN WINE SO FEW CELLARS"

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It is not the "Top 100" that counts worldwide, but the 100, rather 107, of the best Italian wineries selected by "Wine Spectator" for "Opera Wine". It is important for Italian producers, for image and market
Boscarelli and Tenuta di Trinoro (Tuscany), Gravner (Friuli), Leone De Castris (Apulia), Maculan, Bortolotti and Nino Franco (Veneto), Mamete Prevostini (Lombardy), Marchesi di Barolo and Prunotto (Piedmont), Pietradolce, Serraglia and Feudi del Pisciotto (Sicily), Quintodecimo (Campania), Tenuta San Leonardo (Trentino) and Drei Donà (Emilia Romagna) are the 16 new entries on the "elite" of the 107 Italian wineries selected by "Wine Spectator" for "Opera Wine" 2018, the prestigious and now traditional tasting preview at Vinitaly (on April 14, 2018, www.operawine.it).
The selection brings together wineries throughout Italy, from Valle d'Aosta to Pantelleria that are very different for size, territory, production styles, history and blazon, but united by the high quality of the wines, and the ability to tell the story of the Italian wine’s great diversity, like Wine Spectator’s philosophy.
Just to name a few of the wineries listed, Allegrini, Antinori, Argiolas, Arnaldo Caprai, Bellavista, Bertani, Santadi, Carpineto, Banfi, Castello d'Albola (Zonin), Castello di Ama, Cusumano, Casanova di Neri, Di Majo Norante, Donnafugata, Famiglia Cotarella-Falesco, Ferrari, Feudi di San Gregorio, Gaja, Lungarotti, Frescobaldi, Masciarelli, Masi, Mastroberardino, Mazzei, Nino Negri (Giv), Planeta, Quintodecimo, Tasca d' Almertita, Tedeschi, Ornellaia, Tommasi, Tormaresca, Umani Ronchi, Zenato, Zyme, Aldo Conterno, Avignonesi, Braida, Castello di Ama, Ca 'del Bosco, Dettori, Garofoli, Gini, Pierpopan, Jermann, Massolino , Paolo Scavino, Petrolo, Renato Ratti and Vietti. “This is our seventh edition, and it is the way for us at Wine Spectator to get to know new big producers”, commented Alison Napjus, “and we thank them for their friendship. We have reached the point where we review 3.000 Italian wines a year, and with only one hundred to list it is an impossible task to represent everything Italy has to offer, because there would be many more. There is always a group of exceptional producers, and they change in part every year so we are able to represent the enormous vitality and diversity of the Italian wine world”.

Focus – The 107 wineries of Opera Wine 2018

Abruzzi
Binomio
Masciarelli

Basilicata
Elena Fucci
San Martino

Calabria
Odoardi
Vincenzo Ippolito

Campania
Fattoria Galardi
Feudi di San Gregorio
Mastroberardino
Quintodecimo
Salvatore Molettieri

Emilia Romagna
Drei Donà
La Stoppa
Tenuta Pederzana

Friluli Venezia Giulia
Gravner
Jermann
La Tunella
Livio Felluga

Lazio
Falesco

Liguria
Cantine Lunae Bosoni

Lombardy
Bellavista
Ca’ del Bosco
Mamete Prevostini
Nino Negri

Marche
Garofoli
Umani Ronchi

Molise
Di Majo Norante

Piedmont
Aldo Conterno
Antoniolo
Braida di Giacomo Bologna
Cavallotto
Elvio Cogno
Falletto di Bruno Giacosa
Gaja
Giuseppe Mascarello & Figlio
Luciano Sandrone
Marchesi di Barolo
Massolino
Paolo Scavino
Produttori del Barbaresco
Prunotto
Renato Ratti
Vietti

Apulia
Gianfranco Fino
Leone de Castris
Schola Sarmenti
Tormaresca

Sardinia
Agricola Punica
Argiolas
Cantina Sociale di Santadi
Dettori

Sicily
Cusumano
Donnafugata
Feudi del Pisciotto
Morgante
Pietradolce
Planeta
Serraglia
Tasca d’Almerita
Tenuta delle Terre Nere

Trentino Alto Adige
Elena Walch
Ferrari
Tenuta San Leonardo

Tuscany
Altesino
Antinori
Avignonesi
Biondi-Santi
Boscarelli
Carpineto
Casanova di Neri
Castello Banfi
Castello di Albola
Castello di Ama
Castello di Volpaia
Fattoria di Fèlsina
Fontodi
Il Poggione
Le Macchiole
Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi
Mastrojanni
Mazzei (Castello di Fonterutoli)
Petrolo
San Felice
Siro Pacenti
Tenuta dell’Ornellaia
Tenuta di Trinoro
Tenuta San Guido
Valdicava

Umbria
Arnaldo Caprai
Lungarotti
Tabarrini

Valle d’Aosta
Grosjean Freres

Veneto
Allegrini
Bertani
Bortolotti
Cesari
Gini
Leonildo Pieropan
Maculan
Masi
Nino Franco
Prà
Suavia
Tedeschi
Tommasi
Zenato
Zymè