ONLY 22 WINERIES IN ITALY HAVE A UNANIMOUS VOTE FROM CRITICS. VERY LITTLE AFFINITY AMONG THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN WINE GUIDES… DE GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM EST!

Though it may have seemed that there were very few wines that the most important wine guides in Italy could agree upon (there were only five: San Leonardo 2003 Tenuta San Leonardo, Montevetrano 2005 Montevetrano, Terra di Lavoro 2005 Galardi, Sassicaia 2004 Tenuta San Guido, Moscato Giallo Passito Serenade 2004 Cantina di Caldaro), there are also very few wineries that the five guides “Vini d’Italia” (Gambero Rosso-Slow Food editors), “Vini d’Italia” (L’Espresso), “I vini di Veronelli”, “Duemilavini” (Ais/Bibenda), “L’Annuario dei migliori vini italiani” (Luca Maroni)unanimously agree upon.
In fact, only 22 wineries throughout Italy were considered superior (plus another 10 that more or less made the ranks: Fratelli Cavalotto, Giacomo Conterno, Massolino-Vigna Rionda, Sottimano, Vietti, Azelia, Matteo Correggia, Fattoria Zerbina, Grattamacco, and Montevertine).

The 22 “super” wineries according to Gambero Rosso/Slow Food, L’Espresso, Veronelli, Bibenda, Maroni:

Valle d’Aosta

Les Crêtes

Piedmont

Gaja

Bruno Giacosa

La Spinetta

Bruno Rocca

Lombardy

Ca’ del Bosco

Alto Adige

Terlano

Termeno

Colterenzio

Caldaro

Trentino

San Leonardo

Tuscany

Tenuta San Guido

Tenuta dell’Ornellaia

Tenuta Col d’Orcia

Antinori

Poliziano

Castello di Ama

Castello di Fonterutoli

Campania

Mastroberardino

Montevetrano

Galardi