From September 7 to 13, Piazza di Siena will host the 23rd edition of Vinòforum. Emiliano reflects on how one of Rome’s landmark food and wine events has evolved and why the future of wine depends on culture, communication, and reaching an increasingly diverse audience. (more…)

“Did you already know you were making one of the world’s greatest red wines?”
“Yes. That’s exactly the idea I started with.”
(From “Manteniamoci giovani, vita e vino di Emidio Pepe”) (more…)

There are places you can only truly understand when someone tells you how they were first imagined. Because a vineyard, long before it becomes wine, is always an act of…

I waited a little before writing this article. Then, I thought to myself, “Well, some things just have to be said…” and I started with the title…

There are bottles you can’t wait to open. Others somehow end up in your glass almost by chance. And then there are those that, after the very first sip, make you think: I wasn’t expecting this. For a few years, a bottle of Armonicu Rosato 2020 by Depperu Family had been quietly resting in my cellar. There was no particular reason why it had stayed there. Perhaps, without even realizing it, I was simply waiting for the right moment. (more…)

From 24 July to 16 August, Italy's wine country will once again come alive with one of the nation's longest-running and most celebrated wine tourism events. Calici di Stelle ("Goblets…

For years, rosé wine searched for legitimacy. It had to live with the prejudice of being a “lesser” wine: too simple for seasoned enthusiasts, too summery to be taken seriously, too closely associated with passing trends to earn an identity of its own. Today, however, that chapter appears to be over. Not because rosé has suddenly become a different wine, but because the way people perceive it has changed. (more…)

There are events designed to produce a ranking. And then there are events designed to leave people with something more. The day organized by Wining.it on May 24 at Parco de’ Medici Golf Club undoubtedly belonged to the latter. (more…)

“We got it wrong.”
There are words that do not come from the mind, but from somewhere much deeper. Words that emerge before the filter, before form, before even the decision to speak them. (more…)

I still have in my mind the image of Michele Lorenzetti bending down, picking up a handful of soil, holding it in his palm and then studying it thoughtfully as he slowly lets it run through his fingers. There is nothing theatrical about the gesture, no ostentatious rituality, only a precise, almost instinctive movement belonging to someone who does not observe the land from the outside but knows its most intimate grammar. It was in that moment, far more than through his words, that I began to understand what practicing biodynamics in Gattaia truly means. (more…)

There was a time when rosé wine occupied only a marginal place on wine lists and in conversations among enthusiasts. Today, that is no longer the case. Rosé has earned its own identity, shedding the perception of being merely a middle ground between red and white wine and becoming one of the most contemporary expressions of the wine world. (more…)

There is a place in Turin that perhaps more than any other tells the story of the city’s ability to reinvent itself without losing touch with its past. It is Pista 500 at Lingotto, the former Fiat test track that has become one of the city’s most fascinating urban spaces. On June 24, the Roero wine region will take center stage here with an event designed to bring together wine, conviviality and contemporary culture. (more…)

Italian wine tourism probably has the greatest potential in the world. Yet, according to Donatella Cinelli Colombini, one of the leading figures behind the development and promotion of this model in Italy, the country is still only at the beginning of a journey that requires new skills, stronger networks, and, above all, a shift in mindset. (more…)