Sommeliers: “Wine Storytellers” of excellence and biodiversity

The wines that best represent their own territories, the “Tastevin”, are: Rosset Terroir’s 2017 Sopraquota 900 from Valle d’Aosta, Paolo Saracco’s Moscato d’Autunno 2017 from Piedmont, Fay’s Valtellina Superiore Valgella Cà Moréi 2015 from Lombardy, Pieropan’s Soave Classico La Rocca 2016 from Veneto, Eugenio Rosi’s Marzemino Poiema 2015 from Trentino, Cantina Tramin’s Gewürztraminer Nussbaumer 2016 from Alto Adige, Livio Felluga’s Colli Orientali Del Friuli Picolit 2013 from Friuli Venezia Giulia, Terre Bianche’s Rossese di Dolceacqua Bricco Arcagna 2016 from Liguria, Luretta’s Colli Piacentini Malvasia Boccadirosa 2017 from Emilia, Castelluccio’s Ronco Delle Ginestre 2012 from Romagna, Riecine’s Riecine di Riecine 2014 from Tuscany, Famiglia Cotarella’s Marciliano 2015 from Umbria, Tenuta Cocci Grifoni’s Offida Pecorino Guido Cocci Grifoni 2014 from Le Marche, Giovanni Terenzi’s Cesanese Del Piglio Superiore Vajoscuro Riserva 2016 from Lazio, Marramiero’s Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Dante Marramiero 2008 from Abruzzi, L’arco Antico’s Tintilia del Molise Vinea Benedictina 2015 from Molise, Mastroberardino’s Taurasi Radici Riserva 2012 from Campania, Polvanera’s Gioia del Colle Primitivo Polvanera 17 2015 from Apulia, Colli Cerentino’s Aglianico Del Vulture Masqito Gold 2013 from Basilicata, Terre del Gufo’s Timpamara 2016 from Calabria, Pietradolce’s Etna Rosso Barbagalli 2015 from Sicily, Cantina Santadi’s Carignano del Sulcis Superiore Terre Brune 2014 from Sardinia. These are the finest Italian wines that are capable of best expressing their strong territorial identity as well as the best of biodiversity. These wines have been awarded by the sommeliers of the Italian Sommeliers Association, AIS, guided by Antonello Maietta, who is at the head of an army of 40.000 sommeliers throughout Italy. “Sommeliers today are additionally storytellers, researchers and wine promoters”, he told WineNews. “The wines their expert palates have selected for Vitae, La Guida Vini 2019, are for the new edition that has been presented in Milan, including an exclusive preview set in the superb Westin Palace, and there is also the opportunity, glass in hand, for wine enthusiasts to take a tasting journey around the 614 wines that have earned the highest award, the Quattro Viti (four vines).