Wine News
News, reports and updates from the world of wine.
The innovation that removes sulfites from wine: Ullo is born.
Raise your hand if you haven't looked into the sulfite-free discussion and who wouldn't want to "remove" them from wine! On the Indiegogo platform, approximately 157% of the investment needed to fund Ullo has just been reached: the dis...
Piero's Story: He Dies and Leaves Part of His Legacy to the Employees Who Made Him Great
Until recently, few people knew about Enoplastic and its founder Piero Macchi. We are in Bodio Lomnago, a small town on the shore of Lake Varese where Enoplastic is based – a company that produces plastic corks and capsules used primarily for wine, born from Piero's passion for plastics...
The Most Expensive Vineyard in Italy Sold to a Chinese Company
Have you ever wondered how much the most expensive vineyard in Italy costs? Diego and Nora Molinari, former owners of Cerbaiona, have the answer: 6 million euros! This is the amount paid by American investor (with a Chinese company) Gary Rieschel to secure...
Muslims Like Their Wine Diferente (Italians, on the Other Hand, Are Always the Same!)
If you think selling ice to Eskimos can be tricky, then you haven't tried selling alcohol to practicing Muslims yet! No, this isn't a bad joke and there's no spelling mistake in the title! Difere...
Paola's story: died in the vineyard for 27 euros
Italy is a country in difficulty, despite what politicians may declare using indicators built on data whose origins and calculations are often impossible to know. Italy is a country rich in history and...
Producing wine without grapes is possible! Here's how
The European Union has long been at the center of controversy regarding Germany's hegemony, economic policies (imposed fiscal and monetary measures) and the difficulties of countries like Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain. To us Italians it often seems...
Wine Stoppers: a new way to preserve wine
Some time ago we covered, in our ABC del Vino guide, a very delicate topic: preserving leftover wine! In my opinion the best way to preserve it is to finish it! I am generally skeptical about almost all methods of preserv...
BYO Wine Rack: simple, banal wine start-up
It often happens that we have an idea and then reconsider, self-censoring ourselves due to an assumed banality; other times we are held back by limited financial resources, and where that isn't enough, in Italy bureaucracy and taxation take care of the rest. Today's advice is: try it and believe in it – the entrepreneurs of the future could be you!
The Wine on Tap Scam
Today we're talking about a "bad wine" story: thirty thousand liters of wine have been seized across Italy, sold in wine bars and enotecas as D.O.C. and D.O.C.G. wines when they were actually bulk wines served on tap. So much for the production regulations!
Crowdfunding and wine: is the wooden bottle coming?
Crowdfunding (from the words crowd and funding) – or "finanziamento collettivo" for those who prefer not to use English – is a popular way to raise funds on the web. It is often used by innovators to promote hypothetical product/service prototypes and gather the funds needed online to bring these novelties to life!
Italian Wine Hits the Stock Exchange
Wine is also money! The romantics among us won't love it, but they'll understand! Today is a great day for Italian wine from an economic standpoint – there was an important debut on the Milan Stock Exchange! Italian Wine Brands is born today, from the merger of Giordano Vini and Provinco.
The Vine in the Mediterranean? The Work of the Sardinians!
History, even if now in the past, is in constant evolution thanks to studies continuously conducted by historians who, like an explorer with a torch, shed light on unclear facts or data taken simply for granted without solid foundations. This time...