Posted on August 31st, 2010 by VinoWire
Reported via Vino al Vino by VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani. In an interview published on Friday at WineNews.it, Italy’s recently installed agricultural minister Giancarlo Galan told a journalist that there was no real crisis in the Italian wine industry. When asked whether or not the Italian government would “intervene,” he responded: I was the president [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2010 by VinoWire
The following excerpts have been translated from Gian Luca Mazzella’s interview with Brunello di Montalcino producer Gianfranco Soldera (Il Fatto Quotidiano, August 14, 2010). Translation by VinoWire. Italian viticulture has been radically transformed over the last thirty years. Has the quality of the wines improved, as so many claim? Momentous change has occurred over the [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2010 by VinoWire
According to a report by Confagricoltura (General Confederation of Italian Agriculture), the 2010 vintage will be qualitatively and quantitatively good if not excellent, particularly in Piedmont (with a 10% increase in production with respect to 2009) and Umbria (with a 15% increase). An excellent forecast for Trentino-Alto Adige (with roughly the same quantity of wine [...]
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