News VENICE REDISCOVERS ITS ANCIENT WINE HERITAGE. AFTER THE BISOL EXPERIENCE ON MAZZORBO ISLAND, HENRI DARNAT, VIGNERON OF MEURSAULT (BURGUNDY) IS ON TH E ISLAND OF SANT'ERASMO, BETTING HEAVILY ON THE LAGUNA 02 March 2015
News “ 5.1 BILLION EUROS IN EXPORTS IN 2014 IS A GREAT RESULT FOR A VERY PARTICULAR YEAR, AND THE GOAL TO DOUBLE EXPORTS FOR 2020 IS STILL WITHIN REACH”, THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, MAURIZIO MARTINA TOLD WINENEWS 27 February 2015
News TOUR DE FRANCE 2015 "SNUBS" FRENCH WINE. NOT ONLY WILL THE OFFICIAL WINE (FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS) BE THE CHILEAN COMPANY CONO SUR, BUT NO STAGE OF THE TOUR WILL GO THROUGH ANY OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH WINE AREAS 26 February 2015
News THE WORLD FAMOUS FATHER OF THE "CHAMPENOISE" METHOD IS THE MONK DOM PÉRIGNON, BUT THE TITLE OF FIRST WINE TASTER GOES TO KING LOUIS XV, WHO FIRST RECOGNIZED AND APPRECIATED THE CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES 24 February 2015
News SAGRANTINO, THE SECRET IS IN THE TANNINS, WHICH BY TYPE AND CONCENTRATION, MAKES IT A UNIQUE GRAPE VARIETY AND THE KING OF WINES IN MONTEFALCO, EXPLAINED FULVIO MATTIVI (MACH FOUNDATION IN SAN MICHELE ALL'ADIGE). 24 February 2015
News WINE & FOOD DISTRICTS ARE THE BEST: 5 OUT OF 15 ARE BEST FOR GROWTH AND PROFIT, ACCORDING TO INTESA SAN PAOLO. THEY ARE LINKED TO WINE (CHIANTI, PROSECCO OF CONEGLIANO AND VALDOBBIADENE AND VERONA AREA WINES) AND FOOD (PIEDMONT CONFECTIONERY) 24 February 2015
News HALF WAY BETWEEN AN AUCTION AND AN EN PRIMEUR SALE THE "PREMIERE NAPA VALLEY WINES AUCTION" SETS ANOTHER RECORD: 200 LOTS OF CALIFORNIAN WINE VINTAGE 2013 STILL IN BARREL, REACHED 5.9 MILLION DOLLARS 23 February 2015
News "WELCOME BRUNELLO": AS WINENEWS ANTICIPATED, "THREE STARS" FOR THE 2014 HARVEST CELEBRATED ON THE TILE DESIGNED BY THE FOUNDER OF SLOW FOOD CARLO PETRINI, WHO WROTE " EARTH WISDOM FUTURE” AND THE WINE MARK, SYMBOL OF HAPPINESS 21 February 2015
News THERE ARE 1368 WINE GRAPE VARIETIES IN THE WORLD, AND ONLY SOME HAVE EMERGED ON WORLD MARKETS. MANY, LIKE PAIS, TEROLDEGO, NERELLO MASCALESE AND AGIORGITIKO ARE READY TO CONQUER PALATES AROUND THE WORLD 10 February 2015
News “THE EXPO OF IDEAS": THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RENZI SAID, "THE EXPO WILL BE THE TEST FOR ITALY’S AMBITIONS". "ITALY MUST WIN ITS EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL BET AND VALORIZE THE MEANING OF FOOD" AND, "EXPO IS NOT JUST A SHOW" 07 February 2015
News "EXPO OF IDEAS": PETRINI (SLOW FOOD) SAID, " IF THERE ARE NO FARMERS, IT’S AN EVENT BUILT ON SAND", ADDING, "WE MUST NOT FOCUS ONLY ON MILLIONS OF TOURISTS VISITING THE SHOW, BUT ON FARMERS AND RANCHERS WHO ARE SUFFERING" 07 February 2015
News "2010, EXTRAORDINARY YEAR FOR BRUNELLO AND BAROLO. SOUTHERN ITALIAN AND SPARKLING WINES DOING WELL ON THE US MARKET", KERIN O 'KEEFE, ITALIAN EDITOR OF "WINE ENTHUSIAST" TOLD WINENEWS. FOCUS: BRUNELLO 2010 IN THE US 05 February 2015
News THE "LIV-EX POWER 100" RANKS THE TOP WINE BRANDS. BUT, BORDEAUX IS TOPS IN QUANTITY TRADED AND CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD IS NUMBER ONE, REVEALS THE "TOP 10 MOST POWERFUL FINE WINE BRANDS" 05 February 2015
News THE AUSTERITY MEASURES IMPOSED BY BEIJING ARE OVER AND CHINA IS READY TO START UP AGAIN, SAID GUILLAUME DÉGLISE, VINEXPO CEO, CITING THE LATEST IWSR STUDY AND HE IS BETTING ON 24.8% CONSUMPTION GROWTH IN 2018 04 February 2015
News ITALIAN WINE EXPORTS (MAYBE A NEW RECORD IN 2014?) HAVE OVERCOME THE CRISIS (+ 45% VALUE, + 23% VOLUMES, 2008-2013), EURO EFFECT AND THIRD COUNTRIES HAVE GROWN MORE THAN EU. THANKS TO OCM AND CASE HISTORY TEAMWORK LIKE GRANDI MARCHI 03 February 2015
News THE WHITE HOUSE CHEF COMING TO EXPO IN MILAN: CRISTETA COMERFORD WILL BE THE CHEF AT THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION RESTAURANT OPENING IN MILAN DURING EXPO 2015 02 February 2015
News IMU AGRICULTURE AND WINE: THE "MAP" OF PAYING AND NON PAYING TOP ITALIAN WINE TERRITORIES, ACCORDING TO THE 2015 DECREE NUMBER 4. MANY DISSIMILARITIES IN THE SAME DOC. WHY TERROIR MAKES A DIFFERENCE FOR TAXES 27 January 2015
News IN 2018 GERMANS WILL DRINK MORE WINE THAN ITALIANS: 3.3 BILLION BOTTLES TO 3.28 BILLION. WORLD WINE CONSUMPTION IS ON THE RISE, ESTIMATED +35%, 2.5 BILLION 9-LITER CASES, REVEALS THE IWSR RESEARCH FOR VINEXPO 21 January 2015
News CHAMPAGNE STILL DECLINING ON THE DOMESTIC MARKET. THE GOOD NEWS COMES FROM ABROAD WHERE EXPORTS GREW IN 2014: 308 MILLION BOTTLES SOLD AND 4.5 BILLION EUROS IN TURNOVER 19 January 2015
News THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC GIORGIO NAPOLITANO HAS RESIGNED. THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE MAURIZIO MARTINA SAID "THANK YOU FOR 9 YEARS OF TOTAL ALLEGIANCE TO THE REPUBLIC" AND THE TIME YOU CAME TO VINITALY, AND THE MEETING WITH CITTÀ DEL VINO... 14 January 2015
News WINE COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIALLY ON THE WEB, AND IN THE US THE MOST INFLENTIAL WINE SITES ARE WINE SEARCHER, WINE SPECTATOR AND WINE ENTHUSIAST -THE TOP THREE ON "THE WINE WEB POWER" BY "VINEPAIR" 12 January 2015
News FRENCH WINE JOURNALISTS SALUTE THE MEMORY OF STEPHANE CHARBONNIER, JEAN CABUT, BERNARD VERLHAC AND GEORGES WOLINSKI, THE CARTOONISTS KILLED AT "CHARLIE HEBDO" IN PARIS 08 January 2015
News CALIFORNIA WINES DOMINATE THE TOP 100 BEST SELLING WINES OF 2014 BY "WINE.COM", ONE OF THE LEADING US E-COMMERCE PLAYERS, BUT ITALY IS THIRD WITH 13 WINES, THANKS TO THE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE OF RED TUSCANS 22 December 2014
News 2015 WILL BE A EVENTFUL YEAR: FIRST THE EXPO IN MILAN, FOCUSING ON THE THEME "FEEDING THE PLANET". THEN,WORK IS BEGINNING IN JANUARY IN BOLOGNA FOR "FICO-EATALY WORLD" BY FARINETTI, TO OPEN IN OCTOBER, RIGHT AFTER EXPO2015 22 December 2014
News ALL LIV-EX INDEXES HAVE BEEN POSITIVE IN THE FIVE YEAR TERM. "BURGUNDY" IS NUMBER ONE AT 44%, NUMBER TWO IS "REST OF THE WORLD", 40% AND NUMBER THREE "CHAMPAGNE" AT 32%. "ITALY 100" DID WELL AT 18.75%, THANKS TO THE PERFORMANCES OF TOP BRANDS 11 December 2014
News THE BENEFITS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET ARE WELL KNOWN. NOW, AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY BY HARVARD RESEARCHERS, PUBLISHED IN THE "BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL" CALLS IT THE "ELIXIR OF LONGEVITY" BECAUSE IT INFLUENCES AGEING CHROMOSOMES 10 December 2014
News ONLY 1 VEGETARIAN IN 5 ACTUALLY STAYS A VEGETARIAN (LESS THAN 20%). 84% GO BACK TO EATING MEAT: 53% AFTER ONE YEAR AND 30% AFTER THREE MONTHS, REVEALS HUMANE RESEARCH COUNCIL SURVEY ON 11.000 ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES 09 December 2014
News CHRISTMAS 2014 – COLDIRETTI SAYS THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SO MANY ITALIAN SPARKLING WINES EXPORTED ABROAD (+ 22%). MADE IN ITALY PRODUCTS WIN EVEN IN THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. THE TOP ITALIAN BUBBLES IN THE WORLD ARE, IN ORDER, PROSECCO AND ASTI 08 December 2014
News WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A RICH FRENCH VINEYARD OWNER ? GET THE "MONOPOLY DE LA FRANCE VINES" WINE VERSION OF THE CULT GAME WHERE BOARDWALK BECOMES CORTON CHARLEMAGNE AND INSTEAD OF HOUSES YOU BUY TOP TERROIRS 05 December 2014
News EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION ARE THE QUALITIES OF PROFESSIONAL WINE TASTERS AND ATTENTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO BEING TOO SURE, REVEALED THE WORKSHOP, "THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD TASTER: HOW TO EVALUATE THE EXPERTS" AT "WINE2WINE" FORUM 04 December 2014
News RICCARDO COTARELLA IS AT THE HELM OF ITALIAN AND NOW OF WORLD WIDE WINEMAKERS. THE OENOLOGIST, AS WINENEWS ANTICIPATED, HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ŒNOLOGUES. 03 December 2014
News PROMOTING ITALIAN WINE &FOOD AND TERRITORIES FOR CHINESE AND AMERICAN WINE LOVERS AND BUSINESSMEN IN ITALY FOR EXPO2015 IS THE ENOTOURISM PROJECT BY VINCENZO RUSSO OF IULM UNIVERSITY IN MILAN AND MASSIMO GIANOLLI 02 December 2014
News CHINA IS STILL FAR AWAY, SO TO GET CLOSER, THE ISTITUTO DEL VINO GRANDI MARCHI AND ITALIA DEL VINO CONSORZIO ARE FLYING TO BEIJING ON DECEMBER 2ND FOR THE SECOND STOP OF “ITALIA IN CINA”, WHERE THEY WILL MEET TRADESMEN AND LOCAL PRESS 28 November 2014
News YET ANOTHER WHITE TRUFFLE RECORD: 1.89 KG, PROBABLY THE LARGEST EVER, FOUND BY THE ITALIAN FIRM SABATINO IN UMBRIA. IT WILL BE AUCTIONED IN NEW YORK FOR CHARITY. 27 November 2014
News MILAN EXPO 2015, THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT FOR A "GLOBAL FOOD PACT". THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AGRICULTURE COMMISSION, SANI, SAID, “REGARDING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, LAND GRABBING, ACCESS TO FOOD AND FOOD SECURITY, THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO WASTE” 27 November 2014
News BUREAU INTERPROFESSIONNEL DES VINS DE BOURGOGNE: “THE 2014 HARVEST WAS VERY GOOD AND WE EXPECT A GREAT YEAR. GOOD YIELD AND QUALITY FOR BOTH WHITE AND RED GRAPES, THANKS TO SUNNY SEPTEMBER. THE WINES WILL BE BALANCED WITH INTENSE COLOR” 19 November 2014
News THE WINE MARKET IN THE US IS EXPECTED TO GROW EVEN IN 2014, THOUGH ONLY + 0.3%, TO 2.9 BILLION LITERS OF WINE CONSUMED, REPORTED THE LATEST EDITION OF "THE US WINE MARKET: IMPACT DATABANK REVIEW AND FORECAST" 17 November 2014
News “PIZZA IS FOOD EXCELLENCE MADE IN ITALY AND TELLS THE STORY OF HOW A CULINARY TRADITION BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH ITALIAN STYLE”. ALFONSO PECORARO SCANIO RELAUNCHES THE PETITION TO PUT NEAPOLITAN PIZZA ON THE UNESCO LIST 13 November 2014
News ONE CLICK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE BAROLO AND BRUNELLO VINEYARDS. GOOGLE’S "STREET VIEW" AND COLDIRETTI SHOW 5 OF THE MOST FAMOUS ICONIC WINE PRODUCING LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING MAREMMA, CASTELLUCCIO PLATEAU OF NORCIA AND THE ORANGE GROVES IN SICILY. 13 November 2014
News THE LIST OF FAMOUS WINEMAKERS INCLUDES NOT ONLY ACTORS, FOOTBALLERS AND SHOW BIZ VIPS, THERE IS ALSO THE 2011 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR PHYSICS, BRIAN SCHMIDT, WHO PRODUCES WINE WITH HIS WIFE IN HIS COMPANY MAIPENRAI IN SUTTON, AUSTRALIA 13 November 2014
