News — wine

At the international preview of the event “Benvenuto Brunello” more then 1,600 experts from wine industry confirmed that 2010 has been a great year for the wine. Christy Canterbury and Anthony Dias Blue, two of the more revered experts of wine in the USA, have directed respectively the tasting in New York City at the splendid Gotham Hall and in San Francisco at the Fairmont. Dias Blue declared: “the consumer taste in USA is changing fast, there is always more interest to discover new varieties of wine and the wine experience doesn’t stop at just Chardonnay and Cabernet. Americans love...

The collaboration between Italy and the UK has resulted in new steps to combat the sale in the UK of imitation Italian sparkling wine, Prosecco. The Department for Environment Food and Rural affairs conducted a number of controls all around UK to stop the illegal sale on draft of italian Prosecco. These actions are targeted at blocking distribution and sales in store and online. The Italian minister of agriculture Maurizio Martina expressed his support and thanked the British authorities.