Italian Wine News

The first numbers have been revealed on the 2024 harvest in Italy by the three Italian official bodies; Assoenologi, Unione Italiana Vini (UIV) and Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare (ISMEA). Usually, these estimates are quite accurate despite the harvest being in full swing. Overall, the vintage is an improvement from last year’s […]

BRUNELLO 2019 The 2019 Brunello vintage is one of quality and quantity: the perfect outcome for Montalcino growers. Following a fairly wet winter that allowed for an ideal accumulation of water reserves, an equally wet spring prevailed that temporarily halted bud growth. Speeding up the vegetative cycle, summer brought with it hot and regular temperatures […]

Brunello di Montalcino 2018 Vintage Report After an exceptionally tough 2017, the climatic differences that came with the 2018 vintage, commonly referred to as “fresh,” were received with great enthusiasm by producers in the Montalcino zone. Following showers midway into the winter months and some snowfall in February, springtime temperatures were relatively low, and an […]

Brunello 2017 Vintage report After the highs of the much-acclaimed 2016 vintage, we now face one of Italy’s most challenging vintages of recent times, 2017, and Montalcino was not spared its effects. Indeed, Italy’s official enological body commented “we have not had such an exceptional and unusual growing season as this in living memory” (Assoenologi). […]

The first official figures are out from the various Italian official bodies (Assoenologi, Ismea e Unione Italiana Vini), with estimates on the 2021 harvest. Usually, these are quite accurate despite the harvest being in full swing.   A general picture for the 2021 Italian vintage is difficult to outline due to extremes of weather conditions […]

  In honour of Olivio Cavallotto (and other Barolo producers) who passed away due to the COVID 19 pandemic.   When tasting the battery of wines produced by Cavallotto you know there is something unique which cannot be repeated anywhere else in the world. This small plot, in an enviable position on a prominent Castiglione […]

The Institute of Masters of Wine, London Despite COVID Vinexus yet again desired to promote Italy’s finest with its annual ANTEPRIMA in London, presenting the new vintages of Brunello, Barolo and Barbaresco pre-release. For many in the London trade this was their first trade tasting since the lockdown and so we’d like to thank all […]

20th August. The Italian harvest has already started for some of the earlier ripening varieties. For most, producers are cleaning their presses! Here are some reflexions on the eve of 2020 harvest: Despite COVID, producers have been very active in the vineyards through the year and have been able to carry out all vineyard work […]

Every year Vinexus holds its ANTEPRIMA Barolo, Brunello, Barbaresco. This year was special. Rarely do two great vintages, for very different reasons, come one after the other and in the case Barolo and Brunello, this means they are released together. In October, at the INSTITUTE OF MASTERS OF WINE, Vinexus showed some of the best […]

THE iconic Tuscan red is at once arguably the most respected and the most misunderstood wine in Italy’s rich vinous tapestry. In production under the Chianti banner since the Middle Ages, Chianti Classico is the star of that magical land of mountain, hill and valley, of oak, pine, cypress and chestnut, of vineyard and olive […]