News THE PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF BUBBLY WINES, OF WHICH ITALY IS THE LEADER, IS UNSTOPPABLE: EVERYONE LOVES THEM, FROM CONSUMERS TO DISTRIBUTION. THEY ARE THE MOST IN TUNE WITH THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES, SAYS WINE INTELLIGENCE 22 June 2017
News VINEXPO 2017 IS NOW OVER, SO WHILE WE ARE WAITING TO FIND OUT THE DATES OF THE NEXT EDITION OF THE BORDEAUX WINE SHOW, HERE ARE WINENEWS’ BEST TASTINGS IN THE GLASS, VINTAGE 2016 "EN PRIMEUR" OF THE PRESTIGIOUS CHÂTEAUX DE L'UNION DES GRANDS CRUS 22 June 2017
News LIV-EX INDICES SHOW FINE WINES HAVE ALL GROWN IN 2017, AND ITALY 100 (SOLAIA, TIGNANELLO, GUADO AL TASSO, MASSETO, ORNELLAIA, SASSICAIA, BARBARESCO E SORÌ TILDIN GAJA, BAROLO LE VIGNE SANDRONE AND REDIGAFFI TUA RITA) IS AT THE TOP: + 6.47% 12 June 2017
News ZONIN HAS GONE TO CHILE FOR HIS LATEST CHALLENGE, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE VIAL FAMILY. GRAPES FROM THE TOP TERROIRS TOGETHER WITH THE KNOW-HOW OF THE VENETIAN COMPANY TO PRODUCE A NEW BRAND, "DOS ALMAS" 09 June 2017
News THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WILL BE SPENDING THE SUMMER AT E!STATE LIBERI! THE LIBERA TERRA CAMPS THAT FIGHT THE MAFIA THROUGH RESEARCH AND RECLAIMING LAND AND AGRICULTURAL ASSETS CONFISCATED FROM THE MAFIA 08 June 2017
News TEN GLASSES A WEEK, NO MORE THAN TWO A DAY, WITH ALCOHOL-FREE DAYS. THIS IS THE NEW RECOMMENDATION ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION FROM INDEPENDENT EXPERTS FOR THE FRENCH NATIONAL AGENCY SANTÉ PUBLIQUE FRANCE AND INCA- NATIONAL INSTITUT DU CANCER 07 June 2017
News THE 2017 EDITION OF THE NAPA VALLEY CHARITY AUCTION RAISED 15.7 MILLION US DOLLARS, OSCAR WINNER AND WINE MAKER FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WAS HONORARY CHAIRMAN. TUSCAN WINE WAS THE SECOND TOP LOT (1.5 MILLION) 06 June 2017
News THE EU AND CHINA AGREEMENT ON GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS: ITALY LEADS WITH 26 APPROVED PGI OUT OF THE TOTAL 100 FOR EUROPE, A VERY IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENT ACCORDING TO AICIG, IN A MARKET THAT COUNTS 3300 EUROPEAN PGI AND IS WORTH 54 BILLION EUROS 05 June 2017
News IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2017 THE PERFORMANCE OF ITALIAN WINE ON FOREIGN MARKETS HAS BEEN FAR FROM BRILLIANT. GERMANY, THE UK AND CHINA ALSO ALL REGISTERED A MINUS SIGN WHILE RUSSIA IS FINALLY GROWING AGAIN. RECORD SHIPMENTS TO THE US AND CANADA 01 June 2017
News IWSR: GLOBAL ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS DROPPING FAST. 2016 REGISTERED THE BIGGEST DROP IN THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS (1.3% LESS). VODKA CRASHES (4.3% LESS), BUT SPIRITS ARE GROWING STEADILY. BEER FALLS (1.8% LESS), WINE STABLE (0.1% LESS) 31 May 2017
News SIX YEARS AFTER THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCH ROUSTAM TARIKO, BOUGHT GANCIA VALLARINO ESTATES, THEY ARE NOW RETURNING TO PIEDMONT OWNERS: OSCAR FARINETTI HAS BOUGHT TENUTA BRICCO ASINARI, WHILE THE DAMILANO BRAND HAS ACQUIRED TENUTA RAGAZZI 30 May 2017
News ITALY AND WINE BIODIVERSITY: 75% OF ITALY’S VINEYARDS COVERED BY OVER 80 GRAPE VARIETIES. PORTUGAL IS SECOND AT JUST UNDER 40; FRANCE AND SPAIN HAVE FEWER THAN 15 VARIETIES, REVEALED OIV. CABERNET SAUVIGNON IS THE MOST CULTIVATED VARIETY IN THE WORLD 29 May 2017
News KENTUCKY IS THE MOST "EXPENSIVE" STATE FOR WINE TAXES, AT 3.30 US DOLLARS A GALLON (3.7 LITERS). PORTLAND IN OREGON IS THE METROPOLITAN AREA BEST SUITED FOR WINE LOVERS, ACCORDING TO THE "TAX FOUNDATION "AND"INFOGROUP" STUDIES, ANALYZED BY WINENEWS 29 May 2017
News THE FANTASTIC ITALIAN WINE JOURNEY FOR BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA THROUGH 10 ITALIAN WINE VINTAGES. A "DREAM TASTING" BY FILIPPO BARTOLOTTA AND DINNER BY SUPERCHEF MASSIMO BOTTURA 20 May 2017
News CHINA IS READY TO HOST THE SLOW FOOD WORLD CONFERENCE FROM SEPTEMBER 29TH TO OCTOBER 1ST IN CHENGDU CITY. PIERO AND QIAO LING, COORDINATOR AND PRESIDENT OF SLOW FOOD CHINA, FOUNDED IN 2015, TALKED TO WINENEWS 19 May 2017
News BARRELS, WIDELY USED IN TUSCANY UNTIL A FEW DECADES AGO, FOR A MODERN WINE: CHIANTI CLASSICO GRAN VALDONICA SELECTION 2015 18 May 2017
News THE WEB, SOCIAL MEDIAS AND WINE APPS ARE WONDERFUL AND ARE CHANGING THE APPROACH TO THE WINE WORLD, BUT AT RESTAURANTS, 80% OF ENTHUSIASTS WANT THE SOMMELIER AT THEIR TABLE, REVEALED THE US MAGAZINE "WINE SPECTATOR" SURVEY. 15 May 2017
News THE 1ST ITALIAN WORLD WINE TOWN IS CASTAGNETO CARDUCCI IN THE BOLGHERI TERRITORY. THE PROJECT, CREATED BY FRANCO MALENOTTI, GADDO DELLA GHERARDESCA AND DANTE FERRETTI, TOGETHER WITH A SENSORY AND MULTIMEDIA WINE MUSEUM, TELLS THE STORY OF BACCHUS 12 May 2017
News TRADITIONAL AND MASS CRITICISM, ECOMMERCE, BIG DATA AND ITALIAN WINE IN THE WORLD, WINENEWS INTERVIEWED HEINI ZACHARIASSEN, FOUNDER OF VIVINO APP, THE MOST USED IN THE WORLD: 23 MILLION USERS, INCLUDING 2 IN ITALY 12 May 2017
News THE CHAMPAGNE MAISON BOLLINGER HAS PUT ASIDE 45 MILLION EUROS TO BUY VINEYARDS FROM NOW UNTIL 2026, TO INCREASE ITS CURRENT 170 ACRES AND MAKE SURE ITS WINE WILL BE PRODUCED WITH ITS OWN GRAPES 11 May 2017
News WINE-SEARCHER: SASSICAIA IS THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER ITALIAN WINE (NUMBER 9), THEN TIGNANELLO, ORNELLAIA, MASSETO, SOLAIA, BAROLO MONFORTINO RISERVA DI CONTERNO, BARBARESCO DI GAJA, BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO BIONDI SANTI AND BAROLO DI MASCARELLO 10 May 2017
News THE 44TH US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, FORMER MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD, EXPLAINED HIS POSITION ON GMOS, THE FAST CHANGING WORLD (CLIMATIC AND NOT) AND THE ROLE OF POLITICS, AT THE "SEEDS & CHIPS" CONFERENCE 09 May 2017
News WHY IS WINE SO POPULAR IN THE US? HISTORICALLY, IT’S THE WINE LOVERS, WHO STILL LEAD WINE PURCHASES TODAY. BUT, THERE IS AN EPOCH CHANGE IN THE NEW GENERATIONS, AS THE MILLENIALS ARE STARTING TO LEAD WINE CONSUMPTION 27 April 2017
News 100% OF THE LOTS SOLD FOR 7 MILLION DOLLARS AT MERRALL & CONDIT'S “LEGENDARY CELLAR OF WOLFGANG GRUNEWALD” AUCTION, BREAKING 245 PRICE RECORDS. AT THE VERY TOP, BURGUNDY OF ROMANÉE CONTI AND KRUG CHAMPAGNE 24 April 2017
News PROMOTE WINE DIRECTLY AT THE WINERY WITH HIGH-LEVEL CATERING. ONE OF ITALY'S LEGENDARY WINERIES WILL OPEN THE FIRST ORNELLAIA RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD IN 2018 IN THE LUXURIOUS BAHNHOFSTRASSE IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND 24 April 2017
News BIBBONA IS BECOMING A BIGGER AND BIGGER WINE AREA, ON THE BORDER WITH PRESTIGIOUS BOLGHERI DOC. AFTER LODOVICO ANTINORI (BISERNO), GAJA AND SAPAIO, NOW PHILIPP HILDEBRAND VICE PRESIDENT OF BLACK ROCK INVESTMENT FUND IS INVESTING IN VINEYARDS 20 April 2017
News HEALTHY DIETS: THE BEST IS THE DASH DIET, FOLLOWED BY ITALY’S MEDITERRANEAN DIET, SAY THE US NEWS & WORLD REPORT EXPERTS THAT RANKED THE BEST DIETS 2017 (FOR A NATION WHERE HYPERTENSION IS THE NORM) 18 April 2017
News CRISTINA MARIANI-MAY (BANFI CASTLE) ON ITALIAN WINE: IN A "CONGESTED" INDUSTRY, ONE HAS TO "PRESENT ONESELF AS A RELIABLE LUXURY". WHAT ABOUT US CONSUMERS? "THEY ARE GOING BACK TO THE CLASSICAL STYLE," BRUNELLO INCLUDED, "BUT WE NEED TO EDUCATE" 14 April 2017
News VINITALY2017: THE WINE RESEARCH TEAM TASTING, COMPANIES LOOKING TO THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CONSUMERS LOOKING AT SCIENCE, LED BY THE ITALIAN WINEMAKER, COTARELLA 12 April 2017
News PROSECCO DOC HAS REVERSED THE TREND - VALUE GROWING MORE THAN VOLUME. SUPPLY MANAGEMENT, TRACEABILITY AGREEMENT TO SHARE VALUE AMONG PRODUCTION COMPONENTS, AND SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION ARE THE NEXT AIMS OF THE CONSORTIUM 10 April 2017
News THIRD COUNTRIES OBSERVATORY NOMISMA: ITALY IS ONLY THE FOURTH EXPORTER ON FUTURE WINE MARKETS, FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA TO AFRICA, WITH 11% SHARE (466 MILLION EUROS), WHILE FRANCE (33%), AUSTRALIA (15%) AND CHILE (12%) ARE DOING BETTER 10 April 2017
News ITALIAN WINE PRODUCTION GREW IN 2016 AND REACHED A RECORD IN VALUE OF 10.1 BILLION EUROS (+3%), THANKS TO EXPORTS. SLIGHT GROWTH IN DOMESTIC MARKET SALES TO 4.5 BILLION EUROS, THANKS TO MASS RETAIL (+ 1%), SAID COLDIRETTI 09 April 2017
News WELL-BEING, ENGAGE, CONNECT AND EXPRESS ARE THE FOUR MACRO TRENDS THAT IN 2017 CONVEY CONSUMPTION, AND NOT ONLY OF WINE, REVEALED THE "GLOBAL CONSUMER TRENDS" 2017 BY THE BRITISH WINE INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE 07 April 2017
News THE FRENCH GROUP EPI HAS OFFICIALLY ACQUIRED THE MAJORITY OF THE GREPPO ESTATE, WHERE BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO WAS CREATED. JACOPO BIONDI SANTI REMAINS PRESIDENT OF THE HOLDING, HIS SON TANCREDI BIONDI SANTI IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 07 April 2017
News ANOTHER RECORD AUCTION: THE LOTS AUCTIONED AT THE "CELEBRATION OF BURGUNDY", ORGANIZED BY HART DAVIS HART, COLLECTED 5.6 MILLION DOLLARS AND 100% OF THE LOTS SOLD. ROMANÉE-CONTI AND ARMAND ROUSSEAU TOPS 06 April 2017
News MASSIMO BOTTURA HAS LOST THE TITLE OF BEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD, BUT IS STILL ON THE PODIUM OF THE WORLD'S 50 BEST RESTAURANTS, AT SPOT NUMBER 2. THE NUMBER ONE RESTAURANT IS ELEVEN MADISON PARK IN NEW YORK. 06 April 2017
News THE POTENTIAL OF CHINA, THE STABILITY OF THE USA AND THE UNSTOPPABLE FALL IN CONSUMPTION IN EUROPE, KEEP AN EYE ON JAPAN AND CANADA WHILE AFRICA IS OPENING ITS DOORS TO WINE. THIS IS THE 2020 WINE WORLD REPORT BY VINEXPO AND IWSR 04 April 2017
News WINE COMPANIES ARE AMONG THE HEALTHIEST IN THE SECTOR, THANKS TO RECORD EXPORTS (5.6 BILLION EUROS), RECOVERY OF THE DOMESTIC MARKET (+ 1%), AND VERY LOW DEFAULT RATES, REVEALED CRIF RATINGS OBSERVATORY - WINE MONITOR NOMISMA 03 April 2017
News ICE: TURNOVER IN 2016 FOR ITALIAN AGRI FOOD IN THE US WAS 4.558 BILLION DOLLARS (+ 4% ON 2015), AND 3.3% MARKET SHARE. WINE WAS NUMBER ONE (1.796 BILLION DOLLARS), THEN OLIVE OIL (558.4 MILLION) AND CHEESE (307.7 MILLION) 03 April 2017
News THE WHITE WINE BOOM IS NOT ONLY PROSECCO & BUBBLES. THE TREND NOW IS LESS ALCOHOLIC, LIGHTER AND MORE COMPATIBLE WINES, ACCORDING TO A WINENEWS ANALYSIS FOR VINITALY ON ISTAT DATA. WHITE WINES ARE ONCE AGAIN A TOP CHOICE IN CONSUMPTION 31 March 2017
