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Issue 539 - August 23rd - 27th 2021 - Expressly created for 4.250 wine lovers,
professionals and opinion leaders from all over the world |
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A top brand of Italian wine, Bolgheri, joins on the label one of the strongest brands of made in Italy, Tuscany. If by September 18 there will be no objections, the green light will be given to the modification of the disciplinary that will sanction the obligation for the producers of DOC Bolgheri to include the word “Toscana” in the label, as stated in the proposed amendment published in the Official Gazette of August 18. “It is a modification approved by the assembly - explains Riccardo Binda, director of the Consortium, led by Albiera Antinori, Priscilla Incisa della Rocchetta and Cinzia Merli - and we are waiting for the final green light. It will help us in the new markets”. |
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Allegrini, Altesino, Biondi-Santi, Boscarelli, Bruno Giacosa, Ca’ Marcanda, Carpineto, Casanova di Neri, Castellare di Castellina, Castello Banfi, Castello di Monsanto, Castello di Volpaia, Ceretto, Elvio Cogno, Fèlsina, Ferrari Trento, Fontodi, Fuligni, Gaja, Il Palagio, Il Poggione, Jermann, Le Macchiole, Livio Felluga, Marchesi Antinori, Marchesi di Barolo, Marchesi Frescobaldi, Masi, Masseto, Massolino, Mastroberardino, Nino Negri, Ornellaia, Paolo Scavino, Pio Cesare, Planeta, Poderi Aldo Conterno, Produttori del Barbaresco, Ratti, Romano Dal Forno, San Filippo, Siro Pacenti, Tenuta San Guido, Valdicava, Vietti and Zenato: here are the 47 Italian wineries, including large realities and small brands, from Piedmont to Sicily, which will represent Italy in the “Critic’s choice grand Tasting” of the “New York Wine Experience”, one of the most awaited promotional events in the States, to be staged from October 21 to 23, 2021 (after the cancellation of the 2020 edition, ed.). Already “sold out” for a long time, but with important news related to the pandemic: as the magazine “Wine Spectator” explains on its website, to access the event the certificate of vaccination against Covid-19 will be required, the negative result of the molecular swab will no longer be enough. In the meantime, however, the list of the wineries (which sees the Italian ones, among the most numerous, in “company” of many other top world brands) is added to that of the “Wine Stars” of the seminars, which, in a celebratory edition such as the one of the 40 anniversary of the event, will see protagonists, among others, two sacred monsters of Italian and world wine such as Piero Antinori, guide and history of Marchesi Antinori, and Angelo Gaja, iconic producer of the great wines of the Langhe and of Italy, as well as Sting and Trudie Styler, producers in Tuscany, with Il Palagio (under the oenological direction of Riccardo Cotarella). In addition, of course, to the tastings of the best wines of the “Top 100” 2020 by Wine Spectator, including San Filippo’s Brunello di Montalcino Le Lucere 2015, at No. 3 in the ranking, and Massolino’s Barolo 2014, at No. 7, and with the podium of the 2019 ranking, where Chianti Classico 2016 of San Giusto a Rentennano is featured. |
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Among the great Italian wine territories for prestige and recognized quality of wines, Collio, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is one of the white wine pearls of Italy. A prestigious territory, which is experiencing a new season of investments. They come from other territories, such as the one which saw, in the last months, the majority of Jermann winery passed under the control of Marchesi Antinori, as well as “inside” Collio itself, such as the one, in these days, which saw Le Monde winery, among the most renowned ones of the territory, led by Alex Maccan, buy La Ponca, in Dolegna del Collio, which has 45 hectares, 10 of which are vineyards and the rest are woods, up to the borders with Slovenia. “It is a jewel in a beautiful place, a diamond that I fell in love with”, Alex Maccan explains, to WineNews. |
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Reopenings and “revenge spending” (i.e., the desire to spend after months of closures and curfews, ed.) lead to a new record for Italian wine sales among the top 12 foreign buyer countries in the first half of 2021, with imports growing in value by +7.1% over the same period in 2020, but also by +6.8% over 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. Thus the VinitalyNomisma Wine Monitor, which processed the latest customs data on imports from the 12 main world markets of wine demand. Where, however, global demand for wine is also doing well, growing in the last year by 8.1%, with France soaring at +26.2%. But, compared to the last pre-Covid period (first half of 2019), it is Italy that does better: +6.8%, to almost 2.6 billion euros, against France at +2% (3.3 billion euros) and total imports still on negative ground (-1.7%, to almost 10 billion euros). Returning to imports of Italian wines, in 2020 Italy outperformed the market in China (+36.8%), Germany (+9.3%) and Russia (+29.4%), while it was below average in the USA (+1%), the UK (-0.4%) and Canada (+2.5%). Imports of still wines grew (+6.9%), while sparkling wines increased their sales by 11.1%. |
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The Royal Palace of Caserta, the royal palace commissioned by Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples and Sicily, in the second half of the 18th century, also has its own vineyard. In 2018, the then director Mauro Felicori, entrusted Tenuta Fontana with a hectare of land in the Bosco di San Silvestro, in the Park of the Royal Palace, where the Sannio-based company planted a vineyard of white Pallagrello and one of black Pallagrello, which almost disappeared with phylloxera and is now the protagonist of the full recovery of the “Vigna del Re”, which is preparing for its first, historic, harvest. |
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400 million bottles produced in 2020, for a turnover of 429 million euros abroad and 305 million euros in Italian large-scale distribution (+4%): these are the numbers of Italian sparkling wines, those under 2.5 atmospheres, as reported in the “Sparkling Wine Dossier” signed by “Corriere Vinicolo - Uiv”, which accounted for 9% of shipments abroad in volume and 7% in value. The first destination is Germany, where 26% of bottles produced end up, followed by the USA (19%), Mexico (7%), Austria (4%), Russia (4%), Czech Republic (4%), UK (4%), France (4%), Holland (3%) and Spain (3%). 45% of production is represented by IGT wines, 37% by varietal and generic wines and 18% by DOP wines, with Lambrusco, as a denomination, having the lion’s share, with 160 million bottles. |
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It may be the seventh art, but cinema is by far the most popular, especially since it has focused strongly on the small screen, with productions of absolute quality, rewarded every year by the Emmys, the awards organized by the Television Academy, increasingly the “Oscars of television”. Which on September 19, in Los Angeles, in the setting of the Live Event Deck, will be back in presence, with directors, actors and producers toasting Italian again, with Franciacorta bubbles (after those of Ferrari’s Trentodoc). |
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