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Attending agricultural trade shows comes with the territory for those of us who write about and photograph crop production. I’ve attended dozens through the years, but until the International Fruit Tree Association’s recent tour of Northern Italy, I had never been accompanied by growers. Sure, I’d often see grower-friends at shows, and would spend...

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One crisp winter day in 2004, Uran Pelushi was walking along the banks of the Vivo, a creek in the Seggiano Valley in southern Tuscany. Unexpectedly, he noticed an object jutting from the leaf-covered earth. At first, it resembled one of the many charcoal-colored tuff rocks that cover the ground in the area. But as he cleared away the weeds around...

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The most recent data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce confirm the positive trend of Italian agri-food exports to the U.S., which, in the first 8 months of 2022, increased by 13.1% compared to the same period last year, reaching $4.95 billion. “In 2021, our sales recorded $6.5 billion for the food & wine sector alone”, reports Antonino La...

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The United States crowns Abruzzo and its wines: at the Wine Star Awards ceremony, which just concluded, in the splendid setting of the majestic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Abruzzo received the award given by the prestigious international magazine Wine Enthusiast to the most interesting wine realities in the sector."It is an extremely pres...

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Everybody needs a little bit of bubbly in their life! Let's discover together the most famous sparkling wines made in Italy. We love Italian bubbly The Italian bubbles market is growing year after year. We love bubbles and we are very proud to export them worldwide. The generic word we use in Italy is "spumante." It means "sparkling wine." The key...

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In 2022, Italian wine exports reached an all-time high of 8 billion euros, growing by +12% compared to 2021 (source: Nomisma estimates for Forum Wine Monitor). This is a great success for Italy, although it continues to remain far behind the record sales of France, which in 2022 is estimated to have exported wine worth 12.5 billion euros, up +12.5...

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One of the “next big things” in wine is Sicily. It is one of the trendiest wine regions that will experience a real “boom” in 2023, followed by Paso Robles in California, Douro in Portugal, Piedmont and Mendoza. This is the result of a survey conducted by Colangelo & Partners, one of the leading American integrated communication agencies specializi...

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Italy is the world’s largest wine producer, followed by France and Spain. Italy boasts an immense area of 1,730,000 acres of cultivated vineyards, which accounts for roughly 19% of the world’s wine. Although Italy is the biggest exporter of wine in the world, it is also the country with the highest consumption of it. Every region in Italy has its o...

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Many of us love sipping a glass of bubbly to celebrate a special occasion, and with bottles of Champagne being pretty expensive, it's not uncommon to opt for a cheaper bottle of Prosecco instead - especially if you're just using it to mix with orange juice for a Bucks Fizz. But buying Prosecco doesn't have to mean buying lower quality booze, as one...

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The New York journalist, Shana Clarke, has selected 150 of the most beautiful vineyards in the world in South Africa, Argentina, Chile, the USA,New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, Georgia, Armenia, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy that she has published in an art catalogue, titled “150 Vineyards you need to visit before you die”...

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