Wine News
Diageo "abandons" wine to focus on spirits
Diageo, born from the merger between the Irish company (obviously) Guinness and the British GrandMet, is one of the largest companies in the world operating in the alcoholic beverages market; it is among the hundred companies with the highest market capitalization on the London Stock Exchange...
DietSensor is Born: the Device That Helps You Understand What You Can Eat
From France comes DietSensor, a sensor that uses Bluetooth technology and, when brought close to food and drinks, analyzes their nutritional values. Eating disorders, metabolic problems, intolerances, and diabetes now have a new tool to help manage them...
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...
Vignaioli di Langa e Piemonte: Event in Rome
The sensory experience of Nebbiolo, the beautiful prince of the Langhe. Nebbiolo, an extraordinary and complex grape, exhilarating yet difficult to cultivate. It combines low productivity with a difficult adaptability to soils other than its native ones...
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...
Luigi Moio new president of the Wine Organisation
Certainly not an unknown figure to those in the industry, but it couldn't have been any other way! Luigi Moio is the new president of the Wine Organisation! "O' Prufessor", professor of Enology at the Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli, ...
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!