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Bringing together the ultra-centennial history and identity of Tenuta San Leonardo - a thousand-year-old abbey that became the residence of the Marquis Guerrieri Gonzaga three centuries ago, and held with 300 hectares of land, 30 of which are vineyards - with the languages of contemporary art and the artists’ gaze. The “Arte a San Leonardo” project...

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Italy is a country renowned for its rich culture and history, beautiful landscapes, delicious cuisine, and of course, its wine. With over 350 grape varieties and more than 500 DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) and DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) designated wines, Italy is home to some of the world’s most famous and...

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With a production value of about 11.6 billion euros, at least 7.3 billion of which come from exports, the Italian market leads the world in wine production by volume (20 percent of the total) followed by historic competitors such as France and Spain (14 percent each).  In 2022, domestic consumption approached 4.7 billion. Exports are still the most...

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Brunello di Montalcino PDO sales saw further growth in 2022, rising by +18 percent in value compared to the same period in 2021 with a volume increase of +7 percent (source: Consortium for the protection of Brunello di Montalcino PDO wine). The significant increase in average price was matched by a positive performance in almost all export outlet m...

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If made-in-Italy agrifood in 2022 will have surpassed the record of 60 billion € in exports, and wine that of 8 billion € (in a few days official Istat data will reveal this), much of the credit goes to made-in-Italy agrifood districts, which alone are worth 44% of export values. And which in the first 9 months of 2022, saw exports grow by +14.1% a...

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As I drove up the steep northern Italian vineyard hills to meet three sisters of the Tessari family, I had one burning question about their Suavia estate: How do they do it? In Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2022, Suavia was the sole winery from the Veneto, Italy’s largest wine-producing region by volume. That was Suavia’s third time appearing o...

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Italian wine will end 2022 with a new record in exports, which are expected to exceed, for the first time, the threshold of 8 billion euros. While waiting for the official data regarding the past 12 months, definitely encouraging signals are continuing to come from the Italian Consortiums of the most important denominations, in terms of size and pr...

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It made them colorful, dedicated to the joy of living, and with some of the most famous cities in the world, such as New York, and also capable of lighting up and becoming lamps, and so on and so forth. And now Ceci, a Lambrusco brand, one of the most “pop” wines ever - capable of uniting generations, between young people looking for wines that are...

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Chances are, mentioning words like “Spumante” or “Moscato” will elicit a full-body shudder. These Italian sparkling wines have the reputation of being sweet, sugary and highly hangover-provoking. And for good reason. “It maybe has something to do with the millions of bottles of dubiously-produced Spumante d’Asti wine that flooded the U.S. market in...

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There was no better place to be for the young Italian boy than sitting next to his grandfather, who was playing cards and sharing his homemade wine with his friends, in the Abruzzo region of Italy as there was always an electric energy in the air created by the deep connections of such intimate gatherings. The young boy came from a multi-generation...

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