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Issue 698 - September 9th - 13th 2024 - Expressly created for 4835 wine lovers,
professionals and opinion leaders from all over the world | |
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| | | Although in a complicated international framework, Italian wine exports, at the halfway mark of the first half of 2024, remain positive (+3.1% in value to 3.8 billion euros and +2.5% in quantity to 1.06 billion liters), there are Regions that drive growth, others that also brake significantly, from Istat data analyzed by WineNews. Veneto remains the locomotive, with 1.4 billion euros, more than a third of Italian exports, at +5.7%. Also doing well is the second export driving force, Tuscany, with 593.9 million (+3.5%). Small setback for Piedmont, at -2.2% for 565.7 million. Emilia Romagna, Abruzzo and Puglia are also growing among the big names. | |
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| | Maintain the centrality of the wine sector, continuing to consider it as a unique agricultural product even in the post-2027 CAP, at least maintaining the current economic resources (provided by the Wine CMO, but not only) for its support and promotion, simplifying the bureaucracy to access this measure; provide more flexibility on every aspect, including that of the control of production potential, carefully considering measures such as deferred restructuring and the grubbing-up of vineyards; combine key policies to combat climate change with the economic sustainability of wine businesses, in a reasoning that also applies on the health front, for policies related to the sphere of well-being and public health, taking into account the positive value of the Mediterranean Diet, which also includes moderate wine consumption. These are the indications of the wine supply chains of Italy, France and Spain, reunited in recent days in Brussels, in the first meeting of the “High Level Group” wanted by the EU Commission to map out the future of a sector that, between viticulture, industry and marketing, is worth 100.3 billion euros, with the three stages creating a contribution to GDP of 130 billion (0.8 percent of the EU total). Speaking, at this first meeting, were representatives of the supply chain at the European level (Arev-Assembly of European Wine Regions, Ceev-Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins, Cevi-European Confederation of Independent Winegrowers, Copa-Cogeca, Ecvc-European Coordination of Via Campesina, and Efow-European Federation of Origin Wines), and which, WineNews learns, should be followed by another meeting in the coming weeks with institutional representatives of EU countries, with a view to finalizing recommendations to Brussels by early 2025 to address the challenges facing the Union’s wine sector. Which, to a large extent, are already outlined by the document signed by the representatives of the supply chain of the three main producing countries, Italy, France and Spain, which together are worth more than half of the world’s wine production (to sign it, for Italy, Alleanza delle cooperative italiane agroalimentari, Assoenologi, Cia-Agricoltori Italiani, Coldiretti, Confagricoltura, Copagri, Federdoc, Federvini, Fivi and Unione Italiana Vini). | |
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| | Banville, a New York-based distribution company co-founded by Italian producer Lia Tolaini-Banville, in the “Importer of the Year” category; Carlo De Biasi, manager of the Tuscan winery San Felice, for the “Wine Executive of the Year” category; the liquor company Meletti in the “Spirit Brand of the Year” category; Ferrari Trento, a brand of excellence of made-in-Italy bubbles, and Col d’Orcia, a historic Brunello di Montalcino winery, for the “European Winery of the Year” category: these are the five prestigious nominations obtained by Italy for the “Wine Star Awards” of the American magazine “Wine Enthusiast”, edition no. 25, one of the most prestigious wine awards in the world, which will be awarded in January 2025. | |
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| | | With the harvests already underway, the Italian wine sector is looking confidently at the “export” item: at the turn of the year, and for the sixth consecutive month, the wine export trend is positive. According to Istat data on the first half of 2024, analyzed by WineNews, in the period from January to June this year, Italian wine exports globally exceeded 3.8 billion euros (+3.1 in value over the same period 2023, it was +4.9% in May) and 1.064 billion liters (+2.5 in volume over the first half of 2023, it was +5% in the survey of the pentameter 2024). Almost all major trading partners increased the flow of imports over the same period a year ago, with a few exceptions: France and Switzerland in the first place. The United States confirmed itself as Italy’s first oenological partner: exports in value reached 938.8 million euros (+4.6% over the first six months of 2023, down on May, when it was +5.5%), followed by Germany, the first European market for our country, which imported to the tune of 583.9 million euros (+1.1% over the same period last year, almost even on May when it was +1.2%). Third step on the podium for the United Kingdom, which has yielded 387.8 million euros so far (+1.96% over a year ago, although in May it was +6%).
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| | | Feudi di San Gregorio, Campania’s leading winemaking group led by Antonio Capaldo (but with estates also in Bolgheri, Vulture and Friuli, ed.), is also putting down roots in Ischia. With a joint venture on an equal basis (the story in more detail) with “Tenuta C’est la Vie”, of the Moraschi family, which will be called Costa delle Parracine. “We had wanted to land in Ischia for some time, and we took this opportunity”, Antonio Capaldo comments to WineNews. | |
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| | The future of a wine territory can also be seen by how much young people invest in it. And in that of Etna Doc, the diamond of Sicilian wine, the number of businesses led by those under 41 is increasing, reaching 20 percent (8% young female conductors), double the national figure (10%). An acceleration evident in the years 2020-2023, with a 55% increase for a total of 89 enterprises. Significant trend, like the overall growth of new companies (+16%). On the volcano, moreover, in the last 10 years the area planted with vines has grown by 70%, the bottles produced have quadrupled, and wine tourism is a new high-end asset, practiced 2/3 by foreigners, Americans in primis. Data from the Etna Doc Consortium, which, these days, in Castiglione di Sicilia, staged the “Etna Days”. | |
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| | One of the most famous American porn stars in the world is making her debut in the world of wine: Lisa Ann, a hardcore actress whose family boasts distant Italian origins, becomes a producer with the brand “Lisa by Lisa Ann”. It is the Tenuta San Giaime winery in Ganci, in the province of Palermo, that produces the first two references, a Grillo and a Nerello Mascalese, for now available only in selected restaurants and stores in New York. | |
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