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Issue 754 - October 6th - 10th 2025 - Expressly created for 3686 wine lovers, professionals and opinion leaders from all over the world | |
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| | | “Roberta Corrà has redefined what it means to be a leader in the global wine industry. As CEO of Frederick Wildman & Sons, CEO of Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV), and President of Consorzio Italia del Vino, her visionary leadership and people-centered philosophy have propelled her to the forefront of the wine industry. Her ability to combine tradition and innovation and promote collaboration between multiple organizations has earned her the 2025 “Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Award” as “Person of the Year”. Thus, the American magazine “Wine Enthusiast” has chosen Roberta Corrà as its “Person of the Year”. | |
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| | Italian wine is like a large art gallery, with a “permanent exhibition” of artist-producers who have made (and continue to make) history in their territories, an area where prestigious names are “displayed” that are now living classics, and a space reserved for “artists” who are more or less emerging or already partially established. “Legacy Icons”, “Classics”, and “New Voices”, in other words, to use the “classification” of “Wine Spectator,” which announced, from Vinitaly.Usa in Chicago, in recent days, the list of wineries that will be featured at “Opera Wine” 2026, the super tasting prologue to Vinitaly taking place in Verona on April 11, 2026. Names ranging from Masciarelli to Feudi di San Gregorio, from Famiglia Cotarella to Ca’ del Bosco, from Nino Negri to Umani Ronchi, from Tormaresca Tenuta Bocca di Lupo to Donnafugata, from Planeta to Tasca d'Almerita, from Ferrari Trento to Antinori, from Castello di Ama to Castello di Volpaia, from Felsina to Fontodi, from Marchesi Frescobaldi to Mazzei, from Ornellaia to Tenuta San Guido, from Lungarotti to Allegrini, from Masi Agricola to Zenato, among the “Legacy Icons”; from Jermann to Marco Felluga Russiz Superiore, from Lvnae Bosoni to Bellavista, from Guido Berlucchi to Braida di Giacomo Bologna, from Ceretto to Cogno, from G.B. Burlotto to G.D. Vajra, from Giacomo Borgogno & Figli to Oddero Poderi e Cantine, from Pio Cesare to Sandrone, from Argiolas to Tenute Sella & Mosca, from Benanti to Tenuta delle Terre Nere, from Cantina Terlano to Elena Walch, from San Michele Appiano to Tenuta San Leonardo, from Altesino to Argiano, from Biondi-Santi to Boscarelli, from Canalicchio di Sopra to Caprili, from Carpineto to Casanova di Neri, from Castello Banfi to Eredi Fuligni, from Il Poggione to Isole e Olena, from Le Macchiole to Rocca delle Macìe, from Antinori Castello della Sala to Caprai, from Bertani to Nino Franco, from Roberto Anselmi to Romano dal Forno and Tedeschi among the “Classics”; and again, among the “New Voices”, names such as Quintodecimo, San Salvatore 1988, Villa Bucci, Gianfranco Fino, Arianna Occhipinti, Feudo Maccari - Famiglia Antonio Moretti, Graci, Pietradolce, Maso Martis, Argentiera, Biserno, Grattamacco, Lamole di Lamole, Le Chiuse, Poggio al Tesoro, San Filippo, Tenuta di Arceno, Tenuta di Trinoro, Tolaini, Tenuta Castelbuono, Biancavigna, Gerardo Cesari, and Zýmē, to name a few (see the focus). | |
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| | Sometimes, as they say, “the devil isn’t as bad as he’s painted”. Or, in any case, for those in business, having faith in the future is almost a necessity. The fact is that in the US, which, in truth, until July, recorded a substantial stability in Italian wine imports, and where Vinitaly.Usa was held in Chicago, the sector seems to have returned with fewer concerns. Indeed, “there is a return to a positive atmosphere with a widespread feeling of a concrete reaction by producers, importers, and distributors to the turbulence of recent months. The perception expressed by the 250 exhibiting companies (20% more than last year) is unanimous: tariffs are no longer the dominant issue, and importers and distributors were more optimistic and willing to discuss sales programs, taste wines, and talk about new projects”, explains Veronafiere ... | |
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| | | “A new perspective on the intertwining of contemporary arts, territory, and wine culture”: this is how MetodoContemporaneo presents itself, the first permanent Italian observatory on art and wine-growing landscapes promoted by the University of Verona with BAM! Strategie Culturali. It is a new tool for investigating, learning more about, and further disseminating a phenomenon that is widespread in Italy, where producers invest in art, with wineries designed by renowned architects or transformed, like vineyards, into “art galleries sui generis”. MetodoContemporaneo, “not just an archive, but a dynamic and interactive map of the most significant cases - about 60 throughout Italy - that invest in the relationship between art, wine-growing landscape, and community”, will hold its first scattered event on October 17 and 18: “MetodoContemporaneo. Itineraries through art, wine, and landscape”, in 14 wineries, which will open their doors with guided tours, free activities: from Alois Lageder to Ca’ del Bosco, from Castello di Ama to Castello di Perno, from Feudi di San Gregorio to Fontanafredda and Fondazione Mirafiore, from La Raia to Lungarotti, from Ottella to Planeta, from Rocca di Frassinello to Tenuta CastelGiocondo - Frescobaldi, from Tenute Lunelli - Carapace di Castelbuono to Vigne Museum. | |
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| | | A permanent work of art for Montalcino, a territory that has always created links between art, culture, identity, and wine: on October 18, the great Iranian artist Bizhan Bassiri will inaugurate “Vene d’oro del Pensiero Magmatico” (Golden Veins of Magmatic Thought) in the building owned and represented by WineNews, the first act of “Venti di ottobre”, an annual event organized by the Bassiri Foundation, created by Bassiri and his wife Camilla Cionini Visani to manage, preserve, and spread awareness of his work, and promote art and culture through multidisciplinary initiatives. | |
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| | “We are working to include a substantial increase in the resources available to the Italian Trade Agency for the next three years in the budget. Together with representatives from the supply chain, we are planning a major promotional campaign for wine linked to the recognition of Italian cuisine as a UNESCO World Heritage” . Thus the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, to “Il Sole 24 Ore” at Vinitaly.Usa, at a time of great concern about Italian wine, especially in the US. The focus is therefore back on promotion, a strategy that appeals to the Italian Wine Union (Uiv). “Allowing Italian wine to intensify its presence in the United States and other promising countries, coinciding with an increasingly evident situation of difficulty in the sector, is, according to Uiv, the best possible reaction”. | |
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| | Twenty years ago, model and actress Carol Bouquet, purchased a small plot of land in Pantelleria as a “buen retiro” and to produce a passito wine, Sangue d’Oro, with oenologist Donato Lanati. Today, the estate covers 12 hectares, 3.6 of which are planted with Zibibbo vines, some of which are 80 years old. It is a wine-making and cultural project in which the Veneto-based Pasqua winery, led by Umberto Pasqua and his sons Riccardo, Alessandro, and Andrea, has decided to invest. Andrea joined the company as Business Development Manager and has overseen the new partnership. | |
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