It’s a very difficult time in our lives: these days forced at home have given us anxiety and insecurity, but we need hope. Even in the world of wine, waiting for production to return to normal or almost normal, as well as the market, its tale, and, above all, that we return to drink it together in its places of consumption. “When the virus hit us”, Monica Larner, correspondent from Italy for The Wine Advocate, and one of the most authoritative voices of the world’s wine critics, points out to WineNews, “it was as if time had stopped, and with it our normality and our world. But there is no better place to pass quarantine than in the vineyard. Those of us who work in the world of wine have extra edge and we are very lucky. The Coronavirus has brought us sadness and pain, but also an opportunity to improve ourselves”. A rediscovered respect for nature, food, wine and their production, which has put agriculture and “we are what we eat” back at the centre. “Nature repairs what it destroys, wrote the writer George Eliot - recalls the critics - but one thing is clear: we need to review our distribution channels, direct sales, large-scale distribution, catering, almost all guilty of relying on a single system and not on others, while in the future we will have to balance”.