According to a report posted by the Italian-language wine industry blog, I Numeri del Vino (Wine Statistics), Italian wine exports increased by 18% in August 2010, one of the most challenging months for Italian winemakers, note the authors. Total sales were Euro 241 million, surpassing even Italy’s record for wine exports in the month of [...]
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VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani is currently in Apulia where he and a group of wine writers and members of the trade are attending the Radici festival of indigenous Apulian wines. Good news for a magical and absolutely special place, the Tuscan island of Elba. Elba’s most emblematic and symbolic wine, Elba Aleatico Passito, has been [...]
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Leading Italian wine writer and co-editor of VinoWire Franco Ziliani has launched a new blog devoted to the world of Italian sparkling wines. Le Mille Bolle (A Thousand Bubbles) is sure to be embraced by the wine writing and blogging community as an invaluable resource for information on Italy’s many sparkling wine appellations.
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In June 2009, VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani was among the first Italian wine writers to bring attention to a blog and virtual petition created by Calabrian producers of Cirò, In Difesa dell’Identità del Vino Cirò, “in the defense of the identity of Cirò.” The authors of the blog and petition launched their campaign nearly 18 [...]
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For the Italian version of this post, click here. A truly moving vertical of the least Piedmontese of the Piedmontese wines, Carema DOC, produced in a territory governed by Piedmont but belonging to the Valle d’Aosta and to the heroic winemakers who grow grapes in this mountainous terrain. Recent vintages tasted at the Cantina dei [...]
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