On April 21, the Italy’s Agriculture Ministry announced the creation of two new DOCGs, Frascati Superiore and Cannellino di Frascati. Is it really true that in the strange, loved and hated, controversial country that Italy has become, we tend to forget everything? That we act like nothing has happened? Perhaps we are convinced that everyone [...]
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Posted April 21 on the Italian Agriculture Ministry website. Veneto: Creation of a spumante category within the Gambellara DOC. Sicily: Producers of Etna DOC will now be allowed to include riserva on the labels of their red wines as well as their sparkling whites and rosés. Latium: Creation of two new DOCGs, Frascati Superiore and [...]
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Top Italian wine blogger Alfonso Cevola has updated his DOCG list here.
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According to a report circulated yesterday in Italy, more than 70,000 bottles of Langhe Rosso DOC 2010 “Già” have been impounded by Italian authorities. A number of issues cited by officials prompted the seizure: French terms were used on the label (bilingual French-Italian labels are allowed only for Valle d’Aosta DOC and DOCG wines); the [...]
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According to a Facebook post by top Italian wine blogger Alfonso Cevola, Ms. Stevie Kim (Senior Advisor to Veronafiere CEO Giovanni Mantovani) reports that the dates for Vinitaly 2012 have been changed once again. The news dates, according to Cevola’s post, are Sunday-Wednesday, March 25-28. In a statement circulated during Vinitaly 2011, Veronafiere had announced [...]
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According to a press release published on the fair’s website, next year’s fair will take place on Sunday-Wednesday, April 1-4. Historically, the fair has opened on Thursday and closed on Monday. The new schedule, to be implemented after 45 years, is a “strategic change,” wrote the authors of the release, “to give greater space to [...]
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30-year veteran of the Italian wine industry Italian Wine Guy reports this year on Vinitaly. Vinitaly 2011 will be remembered for many things. But the big story was the heat. Arguably the hottest Vinitaly on record with temperatures reaching 32º C. There were some new hellos and one goodbye to this Vinitaly. As of next [...]
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Photo via mammanannapappacacca. The following are excerpts from tributes that appeared last month in memoriam Marco de Bartoli, considered by many to be the great and “last Mohican” producer of Marsala. De Bartoli left this world last month “to join the ancients,” as Alfonso Cevola put it, at 66 years of age. As volcanic in [...]
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Raise your hand, please. Send up a signal. If you take seriously such an unserious thing as the “Italian Unity Bottle,” please show yourself. If you have the courage (and the gall) to show yourself with such an unseemly package (as in the photo above), please let your presence be known. [translator's note: please see [...]
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