News “WINE IN MODERATION”: THE FIRST EUROPEAN PROJECT FOR RESPONSIBLE WINE DRINKING. PIERO MASTROBERARDINO (FEDERVINI): “A TRUTHFUL OPERATION IN COMMUNICATION. OUR CONSUMPTION STYLE IS ONE TO EXPORT” 22 April 2008
News VINITALY 2008 - THE FUTURE HORIZONS FOR THE WORLD OF WINE? ACCORDING TO THIERRY DESSEAUVE, “EVEN TERROIR CAN BE EXPORTED OUT OF EUROPE AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF FLAVORS IS ONLY A TEMPORARY DANGER” 22 April 2008
News ESPRESSO MAGAZINE’S WINE ADULTERATION “SCOOP” DISMANTLED BY THE EU HEALTH COMMISSIONER SPOKESPERSON WHO NOTES; HOWEVER, THAT RISKS STILL REMAIN. VERONAFIERE TAKES LEGAL ACTIONS TO SAFEGAURD THE “REPUTATION AND PRESTIGE OF VINITALY” 21 April 2008
News CHEMICAL ANALYSES REVEAL WHAT’S REALLY IN A BOTTLE OF WINE. PROFESSOR ATTILIO SCIENZA (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN) EXPLAINS TO WINENEWS THE VARIOUS METHODS THAT ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE COSTS 16 April 2008
News SLOW FOOD: THE BRUNELLO VICISSITUDES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WINE ADULTERATION SCANDAL 15 April 2008
News ITALIAN MINISTERS CASTRO AND TURCO RESPOND TO THE “VELENITALY” SCANDAL: “INVESTIGATIONS CONFIRM THAT IT IS A SWINDLE THAT INCLUDES JUST A FEW MALEFACTORS… BUT THAT RISKS DAMAGING THE ENTIRE SECTOR” 15 April 2008
News VINITALY 2008 – THE STRENGTHS OF ITALIAN WINE? AUTOCHTHONOUS GRAPES, COMPETITIVE CAPACITIES OF INDIVIDUAL PRODUCERS, ADAPTABILITY TO ALL CULTURES WORLDWIDE… THESE ARE THE REASONS BEHIND ITALY’S WINE BOOM IN 2007 14 April 2008
News 2008 COULD BE AN OLYMPIC YEAR FOR ITALY AS WELL. GROWING INTEREST ON THE CHINESE MARKET FOR ITALIAN WINE AT THE UPCOMING OLYMPICS IN BEIJING, THE 2010 EXPO IN SHANGHAI, AND THE BOOM IN MACAO 14 April 2008
News VINITALY 2008 – HAS THE WEATHER REALLY GONE WACKY? ACCORDING TO AGRI-METEOROLOGIST LUIGI MARIANI FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MILAN, IT COULD JUST BE A NATURAL CLIMATIC OSCILLATION 13 April 2008
News VITTORIO FRESCOBALDI: THE “CONDOTTIERE” OF ELITE WINES… KEEPING ITALY’S IMAGE HIGH BY DESIGNING ITALIAN “GRAND CRU” 10 April 2008
News FOCUS VINITALY – INDIA’S NEWLY RICH LIKE ITALIAN WINE: FROM NEW DELHI TO MUMBAI, THE DEMAND FOR WINE IS GROWING. FROM 2000 TO THE PRESENT IMPORTS HAVE INCREASED AN AVERAGE 30% PER YEAR 09 April 2008
News FOCUS VINITALY - THE BRAZILIAN SURPRISE: BRAZIL REGISTERS A 30% INCREASE IN VALUE FOR ITALIAN WINE IN 2007. VINITALY SAN PAOLO 2009 IS ALREADY IN THE WORKS 08 April 2008
News EXPORTS SUSTAIN ITALIAN WINES BUT THE “SUPER EURO” AND STAGNATION ON THE INTERNAL MARKET ARE WORRYING PRODUCERS. THE FUTURE SCENARIOS THAT AWAIT THE ITALIAN WINE SECTOR ARE BETWEEN “THE OPTIMISM OF VOLITION AND THE PESSIMISM OF REASON”. 07 April 2008
News VINITALY (VERONA 3-7 APRIL) – ITALIAN WINE GROWS IN POPULARITY WORLDWIDE. THE DECREASED CONSUMPTION WITHIN ITALY IS NOT WORRISOME FOR WINEMAKERS, WHO HAVE DISCOVERED A GLOBAL MARKET IN EXPANSION. 04 April 2008
News ITALY’S NAS POLICE COMMANDER, SAVERIO COTICELLI, CLARIFIES THAT THERE IS, “NO BAN ON MOZZARELLA, IT’S ONLY MEDIA HYPE” 03 April 2008
News A CHANGE IN TRENDS FOR THE U.S. MARKET ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL DATA ON ITALIAN WINE EXPORTS IN 2008 02 April 2008
News ITALY’S NAS POLICE COMMANDER, SAVERIO COTICELLI, CLARIFIES THAT THERE IS, “NO BAN ON MOZZARELLA, IT’S ONLY MEDIA HYPE” 02 April 2008
News A CHANGE IN TRENDS FOR THE U.S. MARKET ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL DATA ON ITALIAN WINE EXPORTS IN 2008 01 April 2008
News “A FALL IN CONSUMPTION OF WINE AND AMOUNT OF VINEYARDS IN EUROPE”, BUT EXPORTS ARE STILL GOING STRONG ACCORDING TO FEDERICO CASTELLUCCI, THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OF VINE AND WINE (OIV) 31 March 2008
News AUSTRALIAN WINE A VICTIM OF CLIMATE CHANGE. DROUGHT HAS CAUSED PRODUCTION TO PLUMMET, AND MADE VARIETAL CHANGES NECESSARY. TOP CHOICES ARE ITALIAN SAGRANTINO AND VERMENTINO, AS WELL AS SPANISH TEMPRANILLO 28 March 2008
News NASTY RUMORS SPREAD IN MONTALCINO – AN INVESTIGATION INTO SUSPICIONS OF BLENDED BRUNELLOS AND MIXED VINEYARDS 27 March 2008
News 89 WINERIES TOGETHER FOR AN ALL NATURAL WEEKEND: THE KERMESS OF NATURAL WINES “VIN NATUR” RETURNS TO VILLA FAVORITA ON APRIL 6 AND 7 26 March 2008
News “WE ARE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF GLOBAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAVOC”. CARLIN PETRINI PREDICTS A BLEAK FUTURE FOR THE PLANET BUT HOPES TO RECREATE A LOCAL ECONOMY THAT CAN CONTRAST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION 25 March 2008
News ROBERT PARKER MAKES HAS CAST HIS VOTE FOR ITALY’S TOP WINES. IT IS “THE ULTIMATE” CLASSIFICATION FOR THE WINE ADVOCATE, MADE BY THE TOP AMERICAN JOURNALIST 21 March 2008
News ITALIAN WINE UNION (UIV): “ENTREPRENEURS MUST CONSIDER BOTTLE TOP INNOVATIONS”. ANDREA SARTORI ASKS FOR NEW MARKETING TOOLS TO BE ALLOWED FOR DENOMINATIONS THAT PRODUCE MILLIONS OF BOTTLES OF WINE 19 March 2008
News A “DREAM” WINE TASTING AT VINITALY: THE “TWELVE CHAMPIONS OF 1997” TASTING ORGANIZED BY VERONAFIERE AND CIVILTA’ DEL BERE, WILL INCLUDE THE LIKES OF SOLAIA, SAGRANTINO, POGGIO ALL’ORO, SANTA CECILIA, MONFORTINO, SASSICAIA, SAN LEONARDO, AND MONTIANO 18 March 2008
News “THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET ON THE UNESCO LIST”. A PROPOSAL LAUNCHED BY ITALIAN MINISTER DE CASTRO TOGETHER WITH SPAIN, GREECE, AND MOROCCO 17 March 2008
News CHIANTI, MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO AND NERO D’AVOLA ARE THE TOP SELLING WINES OF 2007. EMERGING WINES FOR 2008 ARE NEGROAMARO, MORELLINO DI SCANSANO, FALANGHINA, NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO 13 March 2008
News ENOLOGIST COTARELLA GIVES THE SICILIAN WINE HARVEST 2007 A FOUR-FIVE STAR RATING. PROFESSOR SCIENZA: “BIODIVERSITY IS THE FUTURE”. SOCIOLOGIST FABRIS: “SICILY IS A MODEL OF HOW TO CHANGE ONE’S IMAGE” 12 March 2008
News WINENEWS OFFERS TIPS ON HOW TO FLY LOW COST TO THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS WINE REGIONS IN THE WORLD IN ORDER TO THEN BE ABLE TO “INVEST” IN ONE’S FAVORITE WINES 10 March 2008
News ITALY’S COOP SUPERMARKETS TO ARRIVE IN NEW YORK AND TOKYO. A SUPER-COLLABORATION WITH EATALY, THE GOURMET WINE & FOOD SUPERMARKET FOUNDED BY OSCAR FARINETTI 06 March 2008
News ARE SUPER TUSCANS ON THEIR WAY OUT? THE MAGAZINE WINE ENTHUSIAST POSES THIS QUESTION. ITS EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT MONICA LARNER EXPLAINS: THE US APPRECIATES TERRITORIAL WINES BUT IN ITALY THERE ARE THOSE WHO STILL CELEBRATE THE SUPER TUSCAN TRIUMPHS 05 March 2008
News WINE THE ORIGINAL VIAGRA? THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF ART, FROM GREEK TO ROMAN MYTHOLOGY TO THE GENIUS OF THE RENAISSANCE, IT DEFINITELY WAS. NOW IT HAS ALSO RECEIVED SCIENTIFIC VERIFICATION WITH A STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGY. 04 March 2008
News CHAMPAGNE EXPORTS TO THE U.S. DROP WHILE IT CONTINUES TO GROW IN EUROPE AND ASIA. ITALY CLIMBS THE RANKS (+11%), SURPASSING A RECORD 10 MILLION BOTTLES 04 March 2008
News 2007 A RECORD YEAR FOR ITALIAN WINE EXPORTS TO THE U.S.: 2.3 MILLION HECTOLITERS WORTH 1.13 BILLION DOLLARS. JACOPO BIONDI SANTI, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ITALIAN WINE & FOOD INSTITUTE: “AN IMPORTANT RESULT REACHED REGARDLESS OF THE STRONG EURO” 03 March 2008
News “GRAPE HARVEST VOUCHERS” ARE ON THE WAY: FROM MONTALCINO, ITALIAN MINISTER OF WORK, CESARE DAMIANO, LAUNCHES THE INTRODUCTION OF A MODERN TOOL TO AID OCCUPATION IN AGRICULTURE, AIMED AT HELPING WORKERS COMBAT TAX EVASION AND CLANDESTINE LABOR 29 February 2008
News COMMENTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL EVENT ‘WELCOME BRUNELLO’, HELD IN MONTALCINO, BY FIAT’S SERGIO MARCHIONNE: “THE WORK DONE BY FIAT CAN ONLY HOPE TO RECEIVE THE RECOGNITION THAT BRUNELLO HAS ALL OVER THE WORLD”. 27 February 2008
News CHIANTI CLASSICO & NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO: 2007 DEEMED A “FIVE-STAR” YEAR BY THE CONSORTIUMS OF THESE TWO GRAND TUSCAN WINES… COMMENTS BY SECTOR EXPERTS 25 February 2008
News 270 MILLION EUROS EARNED BY CHIANTI CLASSICO IN 2007. EXPORTS GOOD WITH CONTINUED BOOM IN THE U.S. THE NOVELTIES: AN SMS THAT GIVES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A BOTTLE OF ‘GALLO NERO’ AND INNOVATIVE TRACKING SERVICES 22 February 2008
