News EU COMMISSIONER FOR AGRICULTURE MARIANN FISCHER BOEL: “BOLD REFORMS ARE NEEDED, THE GOAL IS NOT TO CUT THE BUDGET BUT TO USE RESOURCES BETTER” 12 May 2006
News CINEMA & WINE – THE GERMAN WEEKLY “BUNTE”. WRITES: “BRAD PITT INTERESTED IN PIEDMONT VINEYARD” 10 May 2006
News Vinitaly sums up international markets: Eu and Us markets still the most important for Italian wine, but attention is also on emerging markets like India, and Russia. Good prospects for China as well 04 May 2006
News “TOCAI” IS NOW “FRIULANO” IN ORDER TO CONQUER NEW MARKETS. 15 MILLION EUROS TO PUBLICIZE THE NEW NAME AFTER A PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURAL POLITICS AND THE FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION WAS AGREED UPON 28 April 2006
News WINE & FOOD: PUBLICITY IN MUSEUMS. FROM THE CAPODIMONTE IN NAPLES TO THE UFFIZI IN FLORENCE, BUONITALIA INVENTS A NEW WAY TO COMBINE ITALY’S ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE WITH ITS FOOD & AGRICULTURE TO GET TOURISTS BETTER ACQUAINTED 28 April 2006
News April 2006 - Magazine Wine Enthusiast (by Monina Larner) - Theenthdegree - With WineNews founders Alessandro Regoli and Irene Chiari. New hounds, Web-based communication counselors and Italy’s most powerful husband-and-wife team ... 27 April 2006
News “ONLY WINE PRODUCERS HAVE PERMEATED A PRODUCT WITH TRADITIONAL AND HISTORICAL VALUE.” THE CONVICTIONS OF ART CRITIC, PHILIPPE DAVERIO. AND FOR THE INTELLECTUAL, GIOVANNI CUTOLO: “WINE IS EQUIVALENT TO CULTURAL HERITAGE” 27 April 2006
News WINE & RESEARCH - VINITALY 2006 – LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTION: AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT CHANNEL FOR QUALITY ITALIAN WINE SALES (OVER 62%). EMERGING WINES TOP ON SALES LISTS 26 April 2006
News “FRANKENSTEIN WINE” FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. WILL THE FUTURE OF WINEMAKING BE MADE UP OF ELECTRIC SHOCKS INSTEAD OF WINE BARRELS, ELECTRODIALYSIS, INVERSE OSMOSIS, AND DNA STUDIES? 24 April 2006
News WINENEWS ANALYSIS - ITALIAN WINE EXPORTS ON THE RISE (+9.2%) ... BUT ITALIAN CONSUMERS DISCOVER NEW WORLD WINES 24 April 2006
News ITALIAN AGRI-FOOD BUSINESS SUFFERS FROM DWARFISM. DISLIKES AGGREGATIONS AND THE STOCK EXCHANGE. BUT ACCORDING TO FEDERALIMENTARE, THIS SECTOR MUST GROW IF IT IS TO SUCCESSFULLY CONFRONT THE MARKET 24 April 2006
News WINENEWS.TV DEBUTS: AN EXPERIMENTAL WEB-TV DEDICATED TO WINE THAT ALLOWS ENO-NAVIGATORS TO BECOME REPORTERS BY SENDING THEIR OWN FILMS FROM VIDEO CAMERAS AND MOBILE PHONES 24 April 2006
News The “Myths” of Italian wine? Sassicaia and Gaja. “Global referendum” by the magazine ‘Civiltà del Bere’ at Vinitaly (Verona, 6-10 April 2006) 24 April 2006
News Wine Enthusiast identikit. Winenews maps out the seven psychological profiles of those who buy and drink wine: from the amateur to the connoisseur, the health nut to the trend follower 24 April 2006
News BRUNELLO MAKES A TOASTS HUMAN RIGHTS: CASTELLO BANFI, ONE OF THE MOST NOTED NAMES IN MONTALCINO, IS THE FIRST WINERY IN THE WORLD TO OBTAIN THE ETHICAL CERTIFICATION SA 8000, FROM THE “VINEYARD TO THE BOTTLE” 14 April 2006
News SANTA MARGHERITA AND MEZZACORONA STRENGTHEN ALLIANCE. THE GOAL? TO RE-QUALIFY THE PARTNERSHIP IN SICILY AND VALORIZE ITALIAN WINE AROUND THE WORLD 14 April 2006
News “WINE BY THE GLASS “CLEARS” BIG NAMES”: ACCORDING TO LODOVICO ANTINORI, THE HELMSMAN OF CAMPO DI SASSO, AND WHO SANCTIONED THE HISTORIC REUNION WITH BROTHER PIERO AT BOLGHERI. CONSENTING COMMENTS BY PAOLINI, VIZZARI, BOLOGNESI 14 April 2006
News THE VITICULTURE CHALLENGE BETWEEN EUROPE AND EMERGING COUNTRIES: GIANNI ZONIN, THE LARGEST ITALIAN PRODUCER REQUESTS MODIFICATIONS IN LEGISLATION FOR OLD AN NEW WORLD WINE, AS WELL AS AID FROM THE EU FOR VINEYARD RENEWAL 14 April 2006
News GLOBAL TASTING TO CELEBRATE VINITALY N°40. EVENT CONDUCTED BY SERENA SUTCLIFFE, MASTER OF WINE AND DIRECTOR OF SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL WINE DEPARTMENT. ITALY REPRESENTED BY GAJA, CAPRAI, ANTINORI, SASSICAIA 11 April 2006
News STUDIES & SURVEYS: ITALIANS AND WINE … AN EXTRACT FROM AN OPINION POLL BY ASTRA RICERCHE (JANUARY 2006, PROFESSOR ENRICO FINZI), COMMISSIONED BY THE VALPOLICELLA WINE CONSORTIUM 09 April 2006
News TOURISM: ‘MADE IN ITALY’ WINE GOES GOLFING ... FOREIGN COMMERCE REGISTERS AN INCREASE OF 3.6% IN EXPORTS, CONFIRMING THE FASCINATION WITH ITALIAN WINE. THE LATEST RESULTS FROM A SURVEY BY CENSIS, CITTA’ DEL VINO & COLDIRETTI 09 April 2006
News VINITALY 2006 – EXCESS COSTS EUROPE TOO MUCH. ACCORDING TO THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER, FISCHER BOEL, THE EU SPENDS 500 MILLION EUROS PER YEAR FOR THE DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS WINE WHILE ONLY 14 MILLION GOES TO PUBLICITY 09 April 2006
News ALL THE NUMBERS FOR ITALIAN WINE IN THE U.S. A HUGE SUCCESS THAT IS DESTINED TO INCREASE IN THE YEARS TO COME … “MADE IN ITALY” WINES CONQUER THE STATES 02 April 2006
News COMPANY STRUCTURE OF MASI AGRICOLA CHANGES. THE BOSCAINI FAMILY CEDES 28.5% OWNERSHIP OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUALITY WINE PRODUCTION, AND NUMBER ONE AMARONE PRODUCING COMPANIES TO ALCEDO SGR (SAN PAOLO SPA GROUP) 30 March 2006
News SOCIALLY COMMITTED WINE: IT WILL BE CALLED “CENTOPASSI”, THE NERO D’AVOLA PRODUCED BY COOPERATIVA PLACIDO RIZZOTTO, THE SICILIAN COOPERATIVE THAT CULTIVATES LAND CONFISCATED BY THE MAFIA 29 March 2006
News EU COURT TOSSES OUT ITALIAN APPEAL FOR WINE NAMES, BUT TOP ITALIAN NAMES, FROM BRUNELLO TO NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO TO AMARONE, ARE SAFEGUARDING THEMSELVES BY TRADE MARKING THEIR NAMES 29 March 2006
News WINE GRAPE’S GENETIC CODE HOLDS NO MORE SECRETS: GENOME SEQUENCED WITH A PINOT NOIR VARIETY 28 March 2006
News VITIGNO ITALIA 2006 (NAPLES, MAY 21ST - 23RD 2006): NATIVE ITALIAN TRADITIONAL VINES : RARE NICHE GRAPES AND PRESTIGIOUS LABELS 27 March 2006
News THE SOLUTION FOR SICILIAN TERROIR ACCORDING TO PLANETA: THE COMPANY KNOWN FOR ITS SICILIAN SAMBUCA MOVES TO ETNA WITH GOAL OF CREATING A BIG WHITE WINE TO BE AGED 24 March 2006
News “LAND AND LIBERTY / CRITICAL WINE”, 4th EDITION, VERONA, APRIL 7-9. CONCEPTS OF GLOBAL AWARENESS/ REBELLION AND REVOLUTION IN CONSUMER GOODS, AGRICULTURE, PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY TAKE THE LIMELIGHT 24 March 2006
News “Sicilia en primeur”: 2005 Sicily’s Best Harvest in the Past 30 Years. Exports Skyrocket (+60%). Production and Business Boom, Surpassing 600 Million Euro Mark 22 March 2006
News CARLO PETRINI (SLOW FOOD) RELAUNCES FARMER’S MARKET AND BUYER GROUP PROPOSAL. GOAL IS TO REDUCE PRODUCTION CHAIN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE 20 March 2006
News SUPER ALLIANCE BETWEEN VERONAFIERE AND FIERE PARMA: REPRESENTING 60% OF THE FOOD & AGRICULTURE EXPO SECTOR, THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS WILL NOW CREATE A TRUE “AGRIFOODVALLEY” FOR INTERNATIONAL USE 20 March 2006
