In the US, only 2% of professionals are black and mentorship programs flourish. In Italy? The question is not being asked.

Discovering aged sherry wines in Andalusia at Bodegas Tradicion

If you have attended schools to become a sommelier or wine tasting courses, I am sure you have come across these precepts: “cork is best for wines that need to evolve because it breathes, while screw caps or synthetic polymer corks block oxygen.” Or: “bottles should absolutely be stored lying horizontally”. I myself professed these […]

About economic sustainability and integrity of wine journalism: considerations after the Wine Media Conference 2022

Exclusive interview with James Suckling about how he has become one of the most influential wine critic in the world and why he choose Italy for his tasting headquarter

What’s behind a wine natural cork? Reportage of a Portugal tour to discover cork from the forest to the bottle.

From Portugal’s forests to the bottle When we uncork a bottle of wine, of the cork we generally care about two things: that it does not break and that it has not contributed to impair strange odors to the wine, in short, that it has held up preserving the wine without carrying the famous TCA, […]

The story of Musivum, the cru selection that values teamwork The small single tile in a mosaic may seem insignificant, not indispensable, when considered on its own. Yet if this principle were applied to all the small tiles, the whole mosaic would not exist, there would be no art, nor beauty to admire. So how […]

The Trentino wine consortium is the first Italian regional territorial organization to adopt an official annual sustainability report. 5,667 Trentino grape-producing wineries have followed this challenging path