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Issue 725 - March 17th - 21st 2025 - Expressly created for 3710 wine lovers,
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Italy: harvest 2024, 44 million hectoliters  
44 million hectoliters: this is the official figure for the 2024 grape harvest in italy, the sum of communications from the regional agencies to the Ministry of Agriculture, which WineNews was able to anticipate. Of which 17.4 of red and rosé wines and 26.5 of whites and sparkling wines, as well as just over 200,000 musts and grape juices. This is significantly higher than the 2023 figure, at 38 million, and up slightly on September 2024 estimates of 41-42 million hectoliters. With production in the last campaign made up of just over 21 million hectoliters from PDO wines, 11.7 million hectoliters from PDO and PGI wines, and with 10.7 million hectoliters from generic wines.
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Duties, EU and US stall until mid-April. But tensions in the wine business remain high
The 200% U.S. duties on wines and Champagnes from France and Europe threatened by Trump, if Europe really introduces countermeasures on the 25 % U.S. duties on EU steel and aluminum, still, are just words, although they are already causing quite a few problems in the U.S. market, which is crucial, with U.S. importers stopping shipments. These days, while the sector is obviously in turmoil (as also emerged yesterday at the Vinitaly 2025 preview in Brussels), many, as done by the president of the Ice Agency, Matteo Zoppas, to WineNews, or by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, on several occasions, are preaching caution, reminding that diplomacy is at work. And, in the meantime, a first very small, albeit significant, result is that the European Union has stalled, postponing by a couple of weeks the entry into force, compared to the initially planned April 2, of the retaliatory duties on U.S. products (included in the list - which to date is the same one used in 2000 for the Boeing-Airbus dispute - is American whiskey , the “casus belli” for which Trump threatened duties on European wines and spirits, ed.), scheduled from early April, as announced yesterday by European Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovic. A move, of course, to stall and give diplomacy time to work, also depending on what the US will actually do. A postponement to give a way to negotiate with less frenzy, then, to be taken with a grain of salt anyway, as always in these cases, as commented also by the Us Wine Trade Alliance itself, which a few days ago strongly advised importers to stop all shipments from the European Union, waiting to see what will happen. And after the postponement of EU tariffs, “we have just received confirmation that the US response - including retaliatory tariffs on wine and spirits from the EU - will now be postponed until April 14. As we know, tariffs on wine - comments Uswta - significantly harm US businesses more, making them unnecessarily damaging to American interests and a poor lever to influence policy change. The wine industry can be a model for the fair trade the United States desires, benefiting businesses on both sides of the Atlantic”. 
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ProWein changes, but remains a “mainstay”
A fair more focused on Germany (which is the second largest market by value and the first by volume for Italy), and more on Northern and Eastern Europe than on the world, as perhaps happened, instead, in the recent past, and therefore, not negligible, ProWein. Certainly less crowded with buyers, especially from North America and Asia, and exhibitors, on the pre-Covid years, partly because of international competition from Wine Paris. But, nonetheless, a fair to continue to preside over, perhaps rationalizing spaces and investments, and focusing more and more on synergies between groups of companies or Consortia (and, in any case, preparing it well beforehand with appointments and initiatives, ed.) This is the sentiment emerging from the 250 meetings WineNews did at ProWein 2025, in Dusseldorf, in recent days. 
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Vinitaly 2025, preview in Brussels with Tajani and Lollobrigida 
A united front to support the sector and avert U.S. tariffs: the world of wine and Italian institutions met for the second year in Brussels to reaffirm the socioeconomic and cultural centrality of wine, an identity product of Europe and Italy. Vice Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, and Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, spoke at the Italian Embassy in Belgium for the event “Vinitaly Preview: the excellence of Made in Italy in Brussels”, a preview of the fair (April 6-9, Verona). Reiterating the unity of the sector were, among others, Veronafiere president, Federico Bricolo, Ice president - Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian companies, Matteo Zoppas, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, and the vice president of the European Parliament, Antonella Sberna. “In this complicated moment we must protect Italian products and exports of domestic wines”, said Tajani. For Lollobrigida, “the criminalization of wine should be avoided within the EU and it is a battle on which national political forces should also find common ground. This is not a health or scientific issue, but a matter of recognizing the value of our food culture”. 
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Pompeii and Tenute Capaldo Group together
Pompeii writes a new chapter in the history of world viticulture and wine. Yesterday, against the backdrop of the Vigneto della Casa della Nave Europa, the world’s most famous and most visited Archaeological Park presented the public-private partnership for the start-up among the excavations of a winery with a full production cycle, for which it selected the Tenute Capaldo Group, and in particular Feudi di San Gregorio and Basilisco wineries, authentic “guardians” of the wine history of Irpinia and Campania and Vulture in Basilicata. 
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Exports, Italian still wines also grew in 2024
A record-breaking 2024, when it comes to exports, for Italian wine (€8 billion), with bubbles booming. But the numbers also tell of good health for still wines. In particular those with denomination (PDO/PGI) capable of doing better in the comparison between 2023 and 2024. As reported by data published by Ismea and analyzed by WineNews, exports for PDO still wines in 2024 exceeded 6 million hectoliters (+7.6%), worth 3.17 billion euros (+5.6%). Still Igp wines also did well, exceeding 4.5 million hectoliters (+3.4%) in 2024, generating exports worth 1.48 billion euros (+1.1%). Among PDO wines, still wines account for 52.5% of total exports in volume and 57.6% in value (year 2024). The decline is small: in 2023 they would take 54.23% in volume and 58% in value of exports. 
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Antica Bottega del Vino in Cortina 
Cortina d’Ampezzo is preparing to become the winter sports capital of the world with the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games: right in the new Italian “place to be” invests the Antica Bottega del Vino, an iconic Veronese venue owned by 10 Famiglie Storiche, custodians of the Amarone wine tradition (Allegrini, Begali, Brigaldara, Masi, Musella, Speri, Tedeschi, Tenuta Sant’Antonio, Tommasi and Zenato) and bulwark of wine culture in the city, which will open a new restaurant in the historic center of the Queen of the Dolomites.
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