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Issue 703 - October 14th - 18th 2024 - Expressly created for 4852 wine lovers,
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| | | A special toast to the 100th anniversary of the Chianti Classico Consortium, which protects one of Italy’s most beautiful territories, enclosed in the hills drawn by the Renaissance soul of Florence and the medieval soul of Siena: was celebrated in recent days at the Quirinal Palace in Rome by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the president of Chianti Classico, Giovanni Manetti (in more detail), in the works of the “Wine Culture Forum: the 100 years of the Chianti Classico Consortium”, in collaboration with the Italian Sommelier Foundation (Fis), led by Franco Maria Ricci. | |
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| | Between the “New York Wine Experience”, a cult wine event in America, signed by “Wine Spectator”, from October 17 to today, and the debut of Vinitaly.USA, in Chicago tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, with the direction of Veronafiere and Ita - Italian Trade Agency, these are hot days, in the U.S., for Italian wine, which, in the States, is a leader and growing in 2024, as witnessed by Ice New York data, reported by WineNews, and as reaffirmed by those of the Uiv-Vinitaly Observatory, according to which “3 out of 10 imported bottles speak Italian, for a market share in value that in August grew to nearly 34% and rises to 43% if we look at the Midwest (which includes 12 states)”. Preceding the debut of Vinitaly USA, as mentioned, the No. 43 edition of a central event in the promotion of wine in the States, the classic “New York Wine Experience” by “Wine Spectator” where Italian wine will be the protagonist in the tasting of the “Top 10 Wines of 2023”, with No. 1 overall, Argiano’s Brunello di Montalcino 2018, presented by Bernardino Sani, Mastroberardino’s Taurasi Radici Riserva 2016, with producer Piero Mastroberardino (no. 5), and with Antinori’s Chianti Classico Marchese Antinori Riserva 2020, poured and narrated by Albiera Antinori, but also in the focus dedicated to the 2020 vintage of Barolo, with Federica Boffa (Pio Boffa), Walter Fissore (Elvio Cogno), Barbara Sandrone (Luciano Sandrone) and Giuseppe Vajra (G.D. Vajra), as well as with the many great names featured in the “Critics’ Choice Grand Tastings”, including names such as Allegrini, Altesino, Argiano, Biondi-Santi, Bruno Giacosa, Ca’ del Bosco, Carpineto, Casanova di Neri, Castello Banfi, Castello di Albola, Castello di Fonterutoli - Mazzei, Ceretto, Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona, Fattoria dei Barbi, Ferrari Trento, Fontodi, Fuligni, Gaja, Jermann, Lamole di Lamole, Le Chiuse, Marchesi Antinori, Marchesi di Barolo, Marchesi Frescobaldi, Masi, Masseto, Nino Franco, Nino Negri, Ornellaia, Pio Cesare, Planeta, Romano dal Forno, Ruffino, Tenuta San Guido and Zenato, to name a few. Among the most awaited moments, the second part of the exclusive interview with Angelo Gaja, one of the most admired Italian producers in the world, signed in person by Marvin R. himself. Shanken, founder of the publishing group that also owns “Wine Spectator”. | |
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| | Italian wine exports in the first 7 months of 2024 touch 4.6 billion euros, up 4.1% on the same period 2023, and improving on the performance of the first half of the year, when exports grew 3.1%, while keeping in line with the first half of the year, at +2.6% for 1.26 billion hectoliters. It emerges from Istat data, analyzed by WineNews, which bode well for the future, without too many illusions, even in a very difficult phase for the world economy, between inflation and international conflicts. In any case, the best news comes from the U.S., with values up +7.3%, for 1.12 billion euros. Germany also remains in the positive, at 692.8 million euros, up +1.4% as does the UK at 464.4 million euros, for +2.2%. Very strong recovery of Russia, with 138.3 million euros, and a recovery of +71.3% over the first 7 months 2023. | |
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| | | Studying and sharing knowledge, even more so than today, with an increasingly multidisciplinary approach to better respond to complex issues, so that wine - which is a vector of culture, just as drinking it is a cultural act - in the future, will be of increasingly higher quality, despite the increasingly sensitive impact of climate change and its effects, to have viticulture that is increasingly targeted and functional to what it is intended to produce, and so that what ends up in the glass is a reflection of the territory, in an increasingly punctual manner. This is where the future of world wine lies, according to Luigi Moio, president of the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine), as he explained in the speech that, in Dijon, opened OIV Congress No. 45, as part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the “UN of Wine” (1924-2024). “The wine of the future”, the Oiv president explained, “will need more and more knowledge, and viticulture will have to be functional to the wine to be made, because wine will have to be increasingly a reflection of its terroir. Despite climate change, we must continue to produce high quality wines, as much in historic production areas as in new ones”. | |
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| | | Tenuta San Leonardo as “winery of the year”, “Resistenti Nicola Biasi” for the “sustainable viticulture” award then, for the other categories, Torre a Cona, Colterenzio, Calatroni, Avanzi, Feudo di San Severino, Belisario, Mario Fontana, Maugeri, Settecani and Lis Neris: here are the 12 special awards of the guide “Vini d’Italia” 2025 by Gambero, which awarded 498 “Tre Bicchieri” and introduced the “Rare Wines” list, “to tell the story of even very small, artisanal-run realities”.
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| | A “symposium”, in the classic sense of the term, with great wines in the glass, and their producers, to reason together, around wine, about important issues such as climate change, biodiversity and the very future of Italian viticulture. This is the “Rome - Symposium” signed by “Robert Parker Wine Advocate”, in Rome, November 7, directed by Monica Larner, signature for Italy of one of the world’s most authoritative publications on wine, which will feature the wines of great wineries of Italy such as Comm. G.B. Burlotto, Fontodi, Gaja, Marchesi Antinori, Tenuta San Guido and their producers. First “solo”, with a seminar-masterclass, and then paired with dishes designed ad hoc by Heinz Beck, chef of the Michelin three-starred “La Pergola” at the Waldorf Astoria Rome Cavalieri. | |
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| | There are eight “Masters of Wine” to whom the Brunello di Montalcino Consortium has entrusted the judgment on the vintage that goes on the market, changing format, with a new tool entrusted to an external team of “super experts”, with blind tastings of samples of Brunello di Montalcino 2020, at the end of a project developed in several stages: meteorological, analytical and sensory. The analysis of the vintage will be unveiled at “Benvenuto Brunello” in the event that, from November 14 to 18, will feature tastings of the 2020 vintage and the 2019 Riserva, on the market in 2025. | |
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