News THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ARE GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER, SO THE QUESTION IS, WHO WILL CULTIVATE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE? MICHELLE OBAMA INAUGURATED IT, WINENEWS INTERVIEWED ALICE WATERS (SLOW FOOD) 14 October 2016
News GIRO D’ITALIA AND ITALIAN WINE ARE STILL PASSIONATE ABOUT EACH OTHER. 2017 MARKS THE 100TH EDITION OF THE “CORSA ROSA” WITH " SAGRANTINO TIME TRIAL", BETWEEN FOLIGNO AND MONTEFALCO, IN THE HEART OF UMBRIAN WINE COUNTRY. 14 October 2016
News A GLASS OF WINE TO THE MEMORY OF DARIO FO. IN MONTALCINO IN 1986, FO EXPLAINED THE ORIGINS OF WINE (OFTEN IN HIS SHOWS) AND THEATRE LINKED TO DIONYSUS. HE DESIGNED WINE LABELS, AND WROTE: “WHOEVER GETS DRUNK ON BAD WINE IS A BAD DRUNK” 13 October 2016
News MINISTER MARTINA HAS APPOINTED THE NEWLY "ITALIAN AMBASSADORS OF TASTE ASSOCIATION", COUNTING 90 CHEFS, WITH CRISTINA BOWERMAN PRESIDENT AND CARLO PETRINI, FOUNDER OF SLOW FOOD, HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE AMBASSADORS OF ITALIAN FOOD AND WINE HERITAGE 12 October 2016
News THE TRUFFLE BUSINESS IN ITALY IS WORTH OVER HALF A BILLION EUROS. THE SEASON OF TRUFFLE FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS IS NOW UNDERWAY IN ALBA IN SANT'ANGELO IN VADO, ACQUALAGNA, SAN MINIATO, SAN GIOVANNI D'ASSO AND CITTÀ DI CASTELLO. 10 October 2016
News “WINE IS MORE EVERYDAY THAN CULTURE, AND EXPERTS ARE ALL OVERRATED, THEY MUST LEARN TO TAKE THEMSELVES LESS SERIOUSLY...”, SAID THE BRITISH PHILOSOPHER ROGER SCRUTON, AND WINNER OF THE MASI CIVILTA DEL VINO NUMBER 35 PRIZE, INTERVIEWED BY WINENEWS 03 October 2016
News BORDEAUX CITÉ DU VIN IS OFF TO A GOOD START: 130.000 VISITORS IN THE FIRST 3 MONTHS, BUT THE COUNCIL HAD "FORGOTTEN"ABOUT IMAGE RIGHTS AND NOW HAVE TO PAY 450.000 EUROS TO XTU, THE STUDIO THAT CURATED THE PROJECT 30 September 2016
News GAMBERO ROSSO’S "WINES OF ITALY 2017": BELLAVISTA IS "WINE OF THE YEAR", ISTINE "EMERGING WINERY". RED OF THE YEAR GOES TO GIOIA DEL COLLE PRIMITIVO DI CHIAROMONTE, WHITE OF THE YEAR TO VERDICCHIO DEI CASTELLI DI JESI DI TAVIGNANO. 437 THREE GLASSES 30 September 2016
News THERE IS A BIG GAP BETWEEN MULTI-FACETED AGRICULTURE IN THE FIRST WORLD AND RURAL AREAS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE PLANET, ACCORDING TO MATTIA GALLETTI, TECHNICAL SPECIALIST OF IFAD, THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTUR DEVELOPMENT 26 September 2016
News TWO GREAT WINE DENOMINATONS AND UNESCO HERITAGE HAVE TEAMED UP. CHIANTI CLASSICO AND CHAMPAGNE WILL COLLABORATE TO MEDIATE TERRITORIES, PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE BRANDS IN THE WORLD. THE AGREEMENT WILL BE SIGNED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS 24 September 2016
News WINE LISTS IN RESTAURANTS ARE “LIGHTER” (MORE THAN 70% OF "WINE SPECTATOR" READERS SAY THE IDEAL LIST WOULD BE UNDER 350 WINES) AND INCLUDE MORE WINE BY THE GLASS ON THE MENU, LIKE HKK IN LONDON 20 September 2016
News TRAINING IS KEY. ACCORDING TO A SCIENTIFIC STUDY THE BRAIN OF PROFESSIONAL SOMMELIERS EVOLVES AS A CONSEQUENCE TO THEIR PROFESSION, GENERATING A BIGGER AND THICKER ENTORHINAL CORTEX 19 September 2016
News EVEN WINE IS POLITICAL: FOLLOWING THE UKRAINE CRISIS IN 2014, MOSCOW CLOSED ITS DOORS TO WESTERN AGRIFOOD (BUT NOT WINE), AND RUSSIANS HAVE REDISCOVERED THE PLEASURE OF LOCAL PRODUCTIONS, WHICH GREW 25% IN 2015 19 September 2016
News THE BORDEAUX COMPANY IMMUNRISE HAS DISCOVERED A NATURAL WAY THROUGH AN ALGA MOLECULE TO FIGHT ESCA DISEASE, DOWNY MILDEW AND BOTRYTIS. FOLLOWING LAB TESTING, EXPERIMENTS WILL ,GO TO THE FIELDS 19 September 2016
News IN ITALY, THERE ARE MANY GRAPE VARIETIES AND WINE TERRITORIES FOR MORE THAN 500 DOC, DOCG AND TGI, BUT ONLY A FEW CAN BOAST BIG NUMBERS. ACCORDING TO THE WINENEWS ANALYSIS ON ISMEA DATA 07 September 2016
News 48.5 MILLION HECTOLITERS (2% LESS THAN PLENTIFUL 2015). QUALITY IS GOOD, BUT BIG DIFFERENCES REGION TO REGION. HERE ARE THE ESTIMATES OF THE 2016 HARVEST IN ITALY, BY ISMEA AND THE ITALIAN WINE UNION (UIV) 06 September 2016
News ITALIANS LOVE THE SEA AND FISH SO MUCH THE ARE WILLING TO PAY MORE FOR FISH IF THEY ARE SURE IT HAS BEEN FISHED SUSTAINABLY AND THE HABITAT IS PROTECTED (77%), REVEALS THE GREENPEACE POLL ON FISH CONSUMPTION 19 August 2016
News ANSA REPORT - THE WORLD IS ASKING FOR MORE AND MORE NATURAL VANILLA, BUT THE CROPS CANNOT KEEP UP THE SUPPLY. VANILLA IS THE SECOND MOST EXPENSIVE SPICE AFTER SAFFRON AND THE EXTRACT COSTS 11.000 DOLLARS A KILO 19 August 2016
News WINE IS MORE AND MORE CENTRAL TO THE ECONOMY OF CALIFORNIA. THE WINE INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTES TO THE STATE (57 BILLION DOLLARAS) AND FEDERAL (114) GDP WITH STAGGERING FIGURES FOR THE STATE THAT COVERS 85% OF PRODUCTION IN THE USA 09 August 2016
News THE WINE SECTOR ALSO INCLUDES THE INDUSTRY OF BOTTLES, CARTONS, CAPS AND LABELS, WHICH IN 2020 WILL BE WORTH 22.8 BILLION DOLLARS, CONSIDERING THE GROWTH RATE OF 2.3% PER YEAR AND THANKS TO A CONTINUOUS INCREASE IN GLOBAL PRODUCTION 09 August 2016
News ADS ON ALCOHOL, YOUNG EUROPEANS AND MEDIA: ACCORDING TO THE STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL "ADDICTION", THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPOSURE AND CONSUMPTION TRANSCENDS NATIONAL CULTURES AND RAISES THE QUESTION OF A NEW EUROPEAN LEGISLATION 04 August 2016
News DENIS DUBOURDIEU, “LE PAPE DU BLANC” AND PROFESSOR AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX HAS DIED. HE WAS UNIVERSALLY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TOP WINE EXPERTS IN THE WORLD AND WAS ALSO A WINE CONSULTANT IN ITALY AS WELL AS A VIGNERON 26 July 2016
News THE UK CHEF JAMIE OLIVER’S METHOD OF FOOD EDUCATION, STARTING WITH CHILDREN WORKS, CONFIRMED THE "SCHOOL OF FOOD SCIENCE & NUTRITION" IN LEEDS. THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN "MINISTRY OF FOOD" COURSES EAT FEWER SNACKS AND MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 21 July 2016
News ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! STARTING TODAY I’M GOING ON A DIET. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SAY THESE THOUSANDS OF TIMES, BUT IT IS WRONG. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST MARINO NIOLA SAYS “HUMANITY WAS BORN WHEN IT INVENTED THE DIET, THE BASIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF OUR SPECIES” 19 July 2016
News AFTER ITS HUGE SUCCESS IN MILAN AND RIO DE JANEIRO, MASSIMO BOTTURA’S "REFETTORI" PROJECT IS COMING TO THE BRONX IN NEW YORK, WITH A SPECTACULAR PARTNER: ROBERT DE NIRO, ANNOUNCED THE NUMBER ONE CHEF IN THE WORLD TOGETHER WITH "RAGING BULL" 18 July 2016
News FOOD IS "GLOCAL". ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, MORE THAN TWO THIRDS OF FOOD GROWN AND CONSUMED FROM OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS. THE FARTHER AWAY ONE GETS FROM BIODIVERSITY THE MORE ONE DEPENDS ON IT 11 July 2016
News MADE IN ITALY BUBBLES FROM FRANCIACORTA TO TRENTODOC, DID VERY WELL AT THE "CHAMPAGNE & SPARKLING WINE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". ITALY BROUGHT HOME 30 GOLD AND 36 SILVER MEDALS, A FIFTH AND A QUARTER OF THE TOTAL AWARDS, BEHIND ONLY FRANCE 08 July 2016
News "SISTER MOON", STING’S WINE PRODUCED IN TUSCANY, IS RANKED NUMBER 1 IN THE WORLD OF VIP’S WINES, SAYS A SPECIAL RANKING ON THE FAMOUS APP "VIVINO". AND NOW THE 1990S SEX BOMB, PAMELA ANDERSON, HAS HER OWN WINE PRODUCED IN CANADA 06 July 2016
News AFTER 6.000 YEARS OF CULTIVATION, THE DNA OF THE OLIVE TREE HAS BEEN DECODED - MORE THAN ONE TERABYTE OF GENETIC DATA AND 56.000 GENES – MORE THAN DOUBLE THE HUMAN GENOME. NOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND IT FROM XYLELLA AND FUNGI 05 July 2016
News ASTI DOCG, 25 MILLION BOTTLES LESS IN 4 YEARS AND 40 MILLION EUROS LESS REVENUE IN 2016. THE RELAUNCH INCLUDES 7 MILLION EUROS IN FUNDS FOR "CASA DEL VINO", WINE BAR AND LIBRARY DEDICATED TO BACCHUS 05 July 2016
News BIKING 1.500 KM ACROSS EUROPE IN THE NAME OF PROSECCO, FROM THE HILLS OF VALDOBBIADENE TO BELLAVITA EXPO LONDON (JULY 17 - 19): IT’S THE #PROSECCOTOLONDON - INITIATIVE OF VILLA SANDI, PROSECCO CYCLING AND TREVISO BRAND 05 July 2016
News FOLLOWING CHEF BOTTURA IN LONDON 2012, CHEF DAVIDE OLDANI HAS BEEN CHOSEN CHEF OF CASA ITALIA AT THE UPCOMING OLYMPICS IN RIO. THE OWNER OF D’O RESTAURANT SAID “YES” TO CONI’S CALL 04 July 2016
News THE ARGENTINIAN ENTREPRENEUR ALEJANDRO BULGHERONI TOGETHER WITH THE ITALIAN WINEMAKER ALBERTO ANTONINI HAVE NOW LANDED IN AUSTRALIA AT THE GREENOCK BAROSSA VALLEY FARM, AFTER HAVING INVESTED IN ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, FRANCE, CALIFORNIA AND ITALY 04 July 2016
News ANTINORI HAS ENTERED CHINA THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR WITH THE CHINESE GIANT FOOD IMPORT GROUP COFCO. THE EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED YESTERDAY, AND THE FIRST STOCK IS ALREADY SOLD OUT (6MILLION EUROS), THANKS TO BRAND REINFORCEMENT 14 June 2016
News FOOTBALL AND CONSUMPTION: IF ITALY GETS TO THE FINALS AT EUROPE 2016, IT MEANS 145 MILLION EUROS MORE IN FOOD & BEVERAGES, ESPECIALLY BEER, ICE CREAM, COLD CUTS, DRINKS AND MOZZARELLE, SAID IRI, INFORMATION RESOURCES FOR COOP ITALY 13 June 2016
News THE FIRST INCREASES STARTED OUT "QUIETLY" AT AROUND 20%, THEN CHATEAUX ACCELERATED 2015 VINTAGE PRICES AND NOW CHATEAU MARGAUX HAS ANNOUNCED ITS PRICE: 384 EUROS PER BOTTLE "EX-NEGOCIANT" (+60% OVER 2014)... 13 June 2016
News THE CRADLE OF WINE GROWING IS SITUATED IN MODERN DAY GEORGIA AND ITS ROOTS ARE NEOLITHIC. NEW CONFIRMATIONS ON THE ORIGINS OF WINE HAVE BEEN FOUND IN GRAPE SEEDS AND WINE DUST AT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG IN GADACHRILI GORA 08 June 2016
News WAITING FOR THE CHINESE E-SHOPPING LEADER ALIBABA TO OPEN THE DOORS TO ITALIAN WINE, THE OWNER JACK MA, AFTER CHATEAU DE SOURS, HAS JUST BOUGHT CHATEAU PERENNE IN BORDEAUX: 64 HECTARES FOR 16 MILLION EUROS 08 June 2016
News SACRED AND PROFANE IN THE VINEYARD. JUST OUTSIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO, THE HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY, SURROUNDED BY VINEYARDS, GAVE PERMISSION TO BURY A LOVED ONE NEXT TO THE VINES USED TO CREATE THE "BISHOP'S VINEYARD" WINE BRAND 07 June 2016
News ADDED VALUE IN AGRICULTURE WAS 33.1 BILLION EUROS IN 2015: + 5.6% VALUE AND + 2.2% JOBS. COLDIRETTI SAYS THE ITALIAN PRODUCTION MODEL IS LEADER IN EUROPE, BUT PRICES TO FARMERS ARE TOO LOW 06 June 2016
