Ukraine is once again becoming an attractive market for international wine. After the collapse recorded in 2022, at the start of Russia’s invasion, consumption and imports showed signs of stabilization as early as 2023 and a more solid recovery in 2024 and 2025. This is indicated by the “Wine Market Overview – Kyiv, Ukraine” report […]
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If it had human form, the Carmignano 1925 from Tenuta Capezzana would be a witty old man. Still lively and talkative. Ready to fight for what he believes in. Body and soul. He would always dress elegantly. A garnet-orange tie. He would engage without frills in yet another passionate discussion about life. In front of
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An extreme Sauvignon Blanc, born from a unique terroir and viticulture at the edge of possibility. This is Tara White Wine 3, a label from Ventisquero Wine Estates, produced in the Huasco Valley, at the gateway to the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile. The 2022 vintage confirms the project’s identity: a wine that interprets one
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“Public money spent without logic and without planning.” This is how Gian Marco Centinaio comments on the Winemag investigation into the public funds used by four Italian regions to organize local sessions of the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (CMB) wine competition. The Vice President of the Senate, a wine producer with his family in Oltrepò
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Italy has spent over one million euros of public money to fund the editions of the CMB – Concours Mondial de Bruxelles on its national territory. This is what emerges from an exclusive investigation by Winemag.it, which reviewed the resolutions of the four regions—Calabria, Campania, Sardinia, and Sicily—where the international wine competition created by the
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Italy continues to stand out as one of the most dynamic markets for Bordeaux wines. While demand is slowing in several European countries, our country is seeing a significant increase in imports. This is driven primarily by entry-level Red Bordeaux and growing curiosity toward whites and Crémant. This context is also influenced by the profound
Estia Verë Roze 2024 by Kantina Arianiti is the best rosé wine in the Balkans. For the first time, Albania triumphs at the Wine Vision by Open Balkan Wine Trophy in Belgrade, a wine competition organized in conjunction with the fair of the same name held from November 22 to 25 in the Serbian capital.
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Brunello di Montalcino 2021 is a late summer afternoon, with the sun trying to break through the clouds before setting. A T-shirt might no longer be enough: better bring a sweatshirt. The new vintage presented at Benvenuto Brunello 2025, overall more than convincing from a quality standpoint, is a rollercoaster of contrasting sensations, which often
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It is called Espace Pro and is a free tasting area accessible only to wine industry professionals at the Salon des Vignerons Indépendants, the “parent organization” of Italy’s FIVI independent winegrowers. Samples are organized by region, color, and appellation, “to save time for industry professionals in a space conducive to tasting.” This is a model
The Pavlovian reflex, or classical conditioning, is an automatic (involuntary) response that an organism learns to produce in response to an originally neutral stimulus, after it has been repeatedly associated with a stimulus that naturally provokes that response. A classic example is Pavlov’s dog, which salivated at the sound of a bell because it had
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