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The world of wine is built on age-old traditions — best practices and standards passed down through generations of winemakers in France, Italy and the U.S. But Ervin Machado, founder of Prosecco Zero, knew it was time to shake things up. As a seasoned sommelier and judge in the American Fine Wine Competition, Machado estimates he’s tasted “thousand...

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After a few years in which the Chianti Classico Wine Consortium continued to preside over its first reference market, the United States, with various activities, which in the last period, due to the health emergency, were above all "virtual", the times they are finally ripe for the realization of a new great tasting event with the presence of the p...

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In 2020, the year characterized by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Italian PDO and PGI products confirmed their importance, all thanks to the work done by 200,000 operators and 286 Consortia for the protection of food and wine sectors. These numbers are confirmed by the analysis of the 19th Ismea- Qualivita Report. In 2020, the GIs supply chain reached...

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It’s time to revisit southern Italy to the region of Puglia, also known as Apulia, and highlight it’s primary red grape, Negroamaro. We’ll be exploring one of the prominent wineries of the region, Cantele, located along the Salento peninsula. The Puglia wine region is at the southern tip on the heel of Italy’s boot shape. It’s a land with a vast am...

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It's amore! The thing about Italian wine and cuisine is united, it’s bliss. The wines and the foods marry so well, it’s amore! Italian wines have a diversity of styles, many, many indigenous grape varieties that are food-friendly and most are a good value. Romantic candle-lit dinners are a happy part of the package with Italian wines. Italy's 20 wi...

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What better occasion than Valentine’s Day to enjoy a romantic dinner by candlelight with your loved one? And why not make everything even more perfect by accompanying it with an excellent Brachetto d’Acqui? I am suggesting a luxury wine with a special perfume, not very alcoholic and to be consumed in a wine or sparkling version. Brachetto D’Acqui,...

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Italian sparkling wines, which have been driving the growth of Italian wine exports for years, have also been the great protagonists of the strong recovery of Italian wine in 2021, both “at home” and abroad (pending the final figures that should confirm the record of over 7 billion euros for the entire wine sector). And further confirmation of grow...

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Simply Italian. It’s not that easy to present Italian wine in a simple way. Just to begin, Italy is a country with nearly 600 native grapes. There are 331 DOC’s, 118 IGT’s, and 76 DOCG’s * within the 20 Italian regions. Never mind how many producers there are or the volume of wine that gets exported internationally every year. To comprehend the Ita...

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I am getting old, but I am not that old. So, it is merely my understanding, not my experience, that the white wines of Italy were once held in higher esteem than the reds, at least in the English speaking world. My guess is that the relative positioning of the two colours of wine flipped in the 1980s with the explosive popularity of Italian food an...

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While Prosecco may be Italy’s most well-known sparkling wine, the country is home to an incredible array of bubbly options. In general, there are two main camps: those made in the Charmat method and those made in the traditional method, or Metodo Classico. Prosecco is the main adopter of the Charmat method, which carries out a secondary fermentatio...

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