“Italy is a leader in wine production, and together with France and Spain we are working on a joint document that challenges the choice that Ireland wants to pursue, and also the passive attitude of the European Union”. Thus, to WineNews, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida, whose action is part of an increasingly accessed debate in Italy and Europe on the issue of wine and health, which fills the news these days, with actions, critics, but also support and approvals, to Ireland’s green light to include “health warnings” on all alcohol product labels (an initiative endorsed with silence-consent by the EU Commission, despite the unfavorable opinion of the Euroaparliament, ed.). After the question and answer between doctors who became famous in the Covid era, such as Antonella Viola and Maurizio Bassetti, and a new intervention by the nutritionist Giorgio Calabrese and the president of Assoenologi Riccardo Cotarella, speaking out in recent days, it was once again the supply chain, protecting wine, that took action, to protect the wine, that intervened. Federvini led by Micaela Pallini has called for the intervention of the government, Crea and the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine) for clarity with great precision because, “we do not accept superficial, ambiguous information based on data not supported by methodologies accepted by the entire scientific community. The issue of the effects of alcohol abuse is an extremely serious topic, which cannot be left to extemporaneous press statements by those who improvise themselves as experts on the subject”. While the Unione Italiana Vini - Uiv, led by Lamberto Frescobaldi, after the words of EU Commission spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker, who said that “no one is against wine”, but also that the review on the labeling regulation under the Beating Cancer Plan is going ahead, bluntly accused the Commission itself of “fence-sitting”, appealing to Italian institutions. In recent days, from Confagricoltura, Lollobrigida’s words, and those of Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who spoke, among other things, of openness to dialogue on the issue with the Irish government (in more detail).