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Issue 751 - September 15th - 19th 2025 - Expressly created for 3681 wine lovers,
professionals and opinion leaders from all over the world | |
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| | | July was not a positive month for Italian wine exports to the US, Italy's leading trading partner, which declined in value, with average prices per liter causing concern due to increasingly slim margins, despite positive volumes in the first seven months of 2025. Comparing the first seven months of 2025 with the same period in 2024, Italian wine exports reached €1.2 billion (-1.1%) and 219.5 million liters (+6.1%), with the price per liter falling to €5.48 (-6.8%), according to US customs data analyzed by the Interprofesional del Vino de España (Oive). Sparkling wines reached €357.3 million (+4.3%) in value in the first seven months of 2025. | |
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| | Vinitaly.Usa n. 2, on October 5 and 6 in Chicago, is set to become the leading event for the Italian wine business in the States. But for Italian wines, which, despite all the difficulties related to tariffs and other issues, remain much loved in the US, every moment of visibility and contact, especially with a high-spending audience, is more important than ever. And so it will be, once again, at the “New York Wine Experience” organized by “Wine Spectator”, one of the longest-running and most glamorous events for fine wine in America, from October 16 to 18 in the Big Apple, with its 44th edition. As always, Italy will be a major player, even in the most important seminars. Such as the one dedicated to the 2020 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino, with three wineries of absolute importance, such as Pieve Santa Restituta, with Giovanni Gaja, Castello Romitorio, with Filippo Chia, and Argiano (owned by Brazilian magnate André Esteves, whose Brunello was ranked No. 1 in the world) with Bernardino Sani. Among the “Wine Stars”, Renzo Cotarella, CEO of Marchesi Antinori, will lead the tasting of one of Italy’s greatest and most celebrated white wines, the 2019 Cervaro della Sala from the Umbrian estate Castello della Sala. Italy again, in the tasting dedicated to the 10 best wines of the “Top 100” 2024, with G. D. Vajra’s Barolo Albe 2020, described by winemaker Giuseppe Vajra, which ranked 9th, and Marchesi Antinori’s Tignanello 2021, ranked 3rd, in the tasting led by Albiera Antinori, president of one of Italy’s most historic and important wine producers. There are many Italian wineries featured in the famous “Critics’ Choice Grand Tastings”, such as, to name a few alongside those already mentioned, Allegrini and Altesino, Bellavista and Berlucchi Franciacorta, from Biondi-Santi to Biserno, Bruno Giacosa, Ca’ del Bosco, Ca’ Marcanda, Terlano, Carpineto, Castellare di Castellina, Castello Banfi, Castello di Fonterutoli, Castello di Volpaia, Ceretto, Elena Walch, Fattoria dei Barbi, Fèlsina, Ferrari Trento, Feudi di San Gregorio, Fontodi, Eredi Fuligni, Jermann, Lamole di Lamole, Le Chiuse, Livio Felluga, Marchesi di Barolo, Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi, Masi, Masseto, Nino Franco Spumanti, Nino Negri, Ornellaia, Pio Cesare, Planeta, Poggio al Tesoro, Romano Dal Forno, Ruffino, San Felice, San Filippo, Tenuta San Guido, and Zenato. | |
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| | “It is dangerous to reduce wine to a health risk, because this overlooks its cultural, social, and human dimensions”. The appeal comes from the International Wine Academy, in a text written unanimously by its members and also signed by Italian producers Maurizio Zanella (Ca’ del Bosco), Franco Martinetti (Franco Martinetti Viticoltore), Donatella Cinelli Colombini (Fattoria del Colle), Angelo Gaja (Gaja), Alberto Graci (Graci), Salvatore Geraci (Azienda Agricola Palari), Alois Clemens Lageder (Alois Lageder), and Pietro Ratti (Cantina Renato Ratti). It is addressed to the 150 heads of state and government of the UN at the 80th United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 9 in New York. | |
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| | | Harsh and generous, as black as it is brilliant with its own light, this is the land of Etna wine. With its volcano, famous throughout the world for its recurring and evocative lava flows, it attracts the attention of wine lovers and vibrates with an energy that reverberates in a wine community that in just a few years has transformed and revitalized the area, thanks in part to the strong wine tourism industry, in an area that has attracted investment first from wineries in other areas of the wine-producing mosaic that is Sicily, and then from many other areas of Italy, around the historic producers. A mature but constantly evolving territory, the Etna wine region, includes old century-old vineyards and new plantations that have recovered terraces and ancient cultivation methods, where Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio among the red varieties, and Carricante and Catarratto among the white varieties, reign supreme. And it is precisely the choice between whites and reds on Etna that is becoming increasingly difficult: although there are obviously those who prefer one of the two souls, the white and the red, the quality of both manages to reach remarkable peaks, with a level of goodness, quality, and definition that is nevertheless widespread across the board. This is the awareness gained at the 2025 “Etna Days”, the event organized in recent days by the Etna DOC Consortium. | |
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| | | A young, small, and dynamic appellation such as Franciacorta has, in just a few years, become a benchmark for quality in Italian sparkling wine production, with steady growth. After the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, where it is the “Official Sparkling Wine”, it now tells its story at the “Festival Franciacorta in Cantina” (in more detail), a pioneer of Italian wine “local events”, directed by the Consortium, with open doors at the most famous wineries. | |
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| | Once again, Trentodoc - territory of the famous “mountain bubbles” that originate on the slopes of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site - is on top of the world in the “world championship of sparkling wines”, with 35 gold and 62 silver medals, more than ever before, thanks above all to its most established brand, Ferrari Trento, part of the Lunelli Group, which with 13 gold medals (also a record) has been confirmed for the fifth consecutive time (and the eighth time in total, out of 12 editions) “Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year”: this is the verdict of “The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships” 2025, the world’s most authoritative competition dedicated to sparkling wines, founded by Tom Stevenson, one of the world’s leading experts on sparkling wines and author of “Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne & Sparkling Wine”. | |
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| | From internationally renowned wine critic to creator of small collections of luxury wines: this is the journey of Antonio Galloni and his Vinous, which, in partnership with Asprey, one of London’s most famous luxury brands, is launching wines produced in very small quantities (around 600 bottles) and signed by Galloni himself and Vinous. Given its historic ties with Italy, the first release comes from Italy, with the Cabernet Sauvignon Old Vines 2021 IGT Toscana, made exclusively from grapes from the famous Bellaria vineyard of Ornellaia in Bolgheri. | |
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