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The Italian agri-food sector has improved the balance of trade in the first half of 2018

ISMEA data: balance is negative (-2.1 billion euros) but in net recovery. Wine is still at the top, and has a surplus of 2.7 billion euros

Alba celebrates and awards Maestro and Oscar winner Ennio Morricone the “Career Truffle”

Morricone: ”I would be very happy if the scent of truffles lasted forever. I would be content to imagine it ...”

Cantina di Soave, from waste to energy to illuminate the Eiffel Tower for 15 months

Thanks to the RafCycle recycling project, the siliconized paper backings of labels become new paper

Ceretto brings the rock poet Patti Smith and the American photographer Lynn Davis to Alba

“Conspiracy of Word and Image” is the 8th contemporary art exhibition by the brand that brings the greatest artists to the Langhe (October 26th)

“Simonit & Sirch”, the most famous vine pruners in the world

Wine and cultural excellence: Tommasi’s Villa de Buris

“Italy wine needs a jolt for exports”: the message launched by Vinitaly

Pasqua, China is a reality: in the first 9 months exports to +33%, turnover is close to one million

“Italia Olivicola” created to bring together 250.000 producers, half of the Italian olive growers

ICE New York: in the first 8 months of 2018 Italian wine exports to the US are up +9.2%, but France

Consumers: USA and UK Millennials “betray” beer, and more importantly, wine, for hard liquor

The relationship wine/ alcohol, the law, the climate and more, according to Angelo Gaja

Italian taste: 25% of food & wine tourists’ first destination choice is Italy

Italian wineries, stock exchange and finance: a virtuous relationship, destined to grow

Ruffino in Prosecco DOC: “Poderi Ducali Ruffino” has been founded, through the purchase of 144 hecta

Milanodabere is back: tastings, master classes and talk shows at the Milan Wine Week

La Rocca, Montebaldo, Sommacampagna: Bardolino focuses on its “crus”

Ornellaia, symbol of Italian wine, is thirty years old, celebrated in the book "Coffee Table Book"

The Illy Group project: a high-end “Taste Center” of chocolate, tea, pastries and wine

Wine Enthusiast the “Top 100 Best Buys”: Pizzolato, Alois Lageder, Chiarlo, Mezzacorona and ...

Gerard Basset: the strengths of Italian wine around the world are its varietal wealth and uniquenes

Wine in restaurants according to top sommeliers: curious and increasingly critical customers

UK: Italian sparkling doing well, still wines down. The unknowns of Brexit weigh on the future

Tasca d’Almerita: minibonds, Etna and exports

White wine more and more popular in Italy and especially in the Lugana territory

Duty-free shops sell 20 million bottles of sparkling wine, Bottega brand is number 2

UK: Prosecco is slowing down for first time in 10 years. 2.3% less in volume half way through 2018

Wine and design: Sella & Mosca (Terra Moretti) wine labels designed by Antonio Marras

More vineyards purchased in the Langhe vineyards: the historic Oddero winery bought Monvigliero cru

Chianti speaks Chinese: “Shiandi” is the trademark the DOCG Consortium has registered in China

Terra Moretti concludes the Bellavista project and acquires total ownership of the Bellavista hill

There are 33 million hectoliters of wine in Italian cellars

“Wine Spectator Video Contest”, “The Soul of Barolo”, by Marchesi di Barolo, is number 1

Banfi and Tua Rita: Italian wine brands have bewitched China

Piazza Duomo, Duomo, Reale and Villa Fiordaliso: the top wine lists in Italy for World of Fine Wine

Sopexa Wine Trade Monitor: by 2020 Italy heading to Canada and China

Manetti: “Chianti Classico and Menzioni Geografiche Aggiuntive”

2/3 of exported wine value in the world from Veneto, Piedmont and Tuscany

Wine is the best selling alcoholic beverage in the world, and China is the world leader

“Previews are useful but need modernizing” said Matteo Ascheri, president of the Barolo Consortium