Written on January 2 2020. Posted in U.S. wine regions, Wine Event.

New year, new grape varieties for California after 20 years genetic research at UC Davis

For the first time since the 1980s, University of California, Davis, researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. The five new varieties, three red and two white, are highly resistant to...

Written on December 19 2019. Posted in U.S. wine regions, Wine Event.

How will the next decade wine geography look like?

If you would have told me, ten years ago, that in 2020, I would have tasted (and enjoyed) a glass of sparkling wine made in England, I would have laughed hard: too cold, too rainy, no-one would ever...

Written on November 13 2019. Posted in Italian products, video, Wine Event, Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Ferrari Trento Doc: the fine mountain bubbles of Italy that outpaced Champagne

Last September I attended one of the most formative and mesmerising press trip ever, the so called Ferrari Camp. It’s a four days event with the Ferrari winery in Trento to discover what’s behind their...

Written on October 30 2019. Posted in Wine Event.

Why are Wine Clubs so popular?

It's no secret that Direct to Consumer online sales have been thriving in the last two to three years, but did you know that the 36 per cent of the DTC sales are performed through a Wine Club? The...

Written on October 7 2019. Posted in U.S. wine regions, Wine Event.

What if Italy could be American new rising export market?

In days when we are witnessing the war of wine import's tarifs which can make the price of some European wines imported in the U.S. skyrocket in the next months, I was wondering how it works in the...

Written on September 23 2019. Posted in U.S. wine regions, Wine Event.

How to detect BS wines? Marketing tricks, transparency and labels…

We are constantly bombarded with advertisements and marketing offers about wine: it’s easy to get confused and sometimes companies play around with the lack of wine knowledge...

Written on August 8 2019. Posted in Wine Event, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Going South: a journey to the up and coming wine regions of Southern Italy

Last June I served as a wine judge at Radici del Sud, a wine competition dedicated to Southern Italy wines that took place in Bari, Puglia. More than 300 wines from Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Sicilia,...

Written on July 3 2019. Posted in Wine Event.

The first European Women in Wine Expo: how women can make wine dreams come true

I have met women from the most undiscovered wine regions who believed in their skills, in their dreams and struggled to make them happen, and now are leading successful wineries in Georgia, Moldova,...

Written on June 17 2019. Posted in video, Wine Event, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Bordeaux En Primeur Week: discovering the wine to be…

En Primeur week, for those of you who never heard about it, is a preview of the last vintage (in this case 2018) from the Union des Grands Crus members in all Bordeaux appellations. This event incorporates...

Written on May 9 2019. Posted in Wine Event, Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Cos D’Estournel: the thousand nuances of Saint-Estèphe’s terroir in a glass

My Bordeaux wine tour: Cos D'Estournel chateau in Saint-Estephe during En Primeur week 2018. Complex, multi layered, perfumed wines to store in your cellar...

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