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This week's rare wines require us to travel through history by sea. We start from Liguria, precisely from Bonassola. Here Davide and Giuseppe revived the Ruzzese grape, a variety cultivated since 600 AD and then forgotten at the beginning of the last century. Only 1,500 plants give us a sweet wine from dried grapes, of great character and charm. Th...

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The enthusiasm, passion, courage and determination that have always been the strengths of wine companies in Romagna, severely hit by the recent floods, will be felt even stronger. WineNews is absolutely sure of it. One of the facts that make it possible are the in-depth studies of the territory from a geological point of view, increasing awareness...

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The Italian government is working to block Ireland’s new law requiring health labels on alcoholic products such as wine, a move that, according to one of the governing parties Forza Italia (EPP), breaks the internal market and generates unfounded alarm among consumers. In Ireland, wine and spirits sold in the country must have health labels from 22...

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Sicily is Italy’s most in-demand tourism destination - in a country that is already first tourist destination in the world in relation to its size, and is, in particular, among the most desired wine and food destinations - in a segment considered transversally attractive for all age groups. In addition, that so-called “high-end” tourism that is tak...

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After 13 consecutive annual gains, the U.S. market for sparkling wine slipped 1.5% by volume in 2022, according to Impact Databank. The sector eked out a slight gain by dollar value, but prior to last year, the last time sparkling wines decreased as a category was during the global financial crisis. American sparkling wines stumbled 5% by volume in...

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Climate change has caused practical and dramatic consequences in everyday life in the past and is continuing to do so, especially in agriculture. Every year, the UN, together with IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, cross-checks the scientific data processed by organizations in various countries. Their 2023 report revealed that to lim...

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Seeing that we’re creeping into May after this weekend I’m going to get a head start into my features for the month of May which is covering the wines of Abruzzo and Marche wine regions. This week I’m starting with the wines known as Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo and will feature a Cerasuolo from Cantina Tollo in Abruzzo. Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo is is one of Ita...

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The relationship between wine and health, and the implications linked to cardiovascular diseases, are increasingly at the centre of Community policies, which have for some time now placed alcohol in their sights, arriving to propose, like that by now famous case of Ireland, to put a health warning on the label notifying the health risks associated...

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The path of Italian wine on foreign markets is once again quickening the pace of its steps and, after an essentially flat January, exports grew by +3.6% in value to €1.05 billion in February 2023, the latest Istat data, analyzed by WineNews, reveal. Good news also on the volume front, with a sharp halt to the negative trend in terms of volumes, low...

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The "karstic lands" that baptise the winery are the famous ones of Castellana Grotte, the beating heart of the Murgia Barese, the limestone plateau of tectonic origin located between central Puglia and the north-eastern part of Basilicata. It is a different Puglia to the one we are accustomed to: here the vast plains give way to medium hills and lo...

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