The winemaking Italy did great honor at the "5 Star Wines" award announced at Vinitaly in Verona and awarded by a jury of 70 world experts. For three days oenologists, wine writers, sommeliers from multi-starred restaurants, Masters of Wine, all selected by territorial competence, coming from 27 countries around the world and coordinated by Ian D'Agata, scientific director of the Vinitaly International Academy, tasted blindly over 2.700 strictly anonymous wine samples.
The best white in the world, decreed by the international jury, is produced by the "Feudo Disisa" in the province of Monreale: "Terre Siciliane Igp Bianco "Chara" 2015" with 94 points. A well-deserved success for a historic Palermitan company which in the 40s converted its lands, dedicated to pastures and sowing, to the cultivation of vineyards and olive groves, combining innovation and tradition, to achieve the high quality that is recognized today for its products. And the “Barolo Docg Ravera 2012” by Réva S.Agr is Piedmontese. of Monteforte D'Alba (Cuneo) which with 95 points won the international podium of red wines. Still a historic cellar whose origins date back to 1867, totally renovated in 2010 by a young but very clear-minded management who entrusted themselves to a winemaker, Gianluca Colombo who in 2014 was awarded the Gambarelli award, recognition for wine producers under 35 .
And the Italian palmares has also been enriched by the 5 Star Wines award also for the category of rosé wines. The best judged by the international jury was the "Garda Doc Classico Chiaretto 18 and QUARANTACINQUE" 2015 of the Citari SS farm by Giovanna Gettuli in Desenzano del Garda (BS) with 92 points. A young company this time, born only in 1975 on the hill of San Martino della Battaglia, not far from the tower erected in memory of the historic Risorgimento event that paved the way for the unification of Italy, which has burned the times thanks to the passion of the entire family who run the business full time.
The best sparkling wine in the world for the jury of Vinitaly experts is always Italian, it is Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro Doc dry sparkling “Villa Cialdini” 2015 by Chiarli – PR.IVI: srl of Modena which conquers and wins 92 points. Once again a company that has its roots in history, the decision of the head of the Cleto Chiarli dynasty to close the inn in the city and move to the countryside to devote himself solely to the production of Lambrusco dates back to 1850, which until then he had produced to satisfy the needs of the tavern. Years later the international consecration arrives in Paris: at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Cleto Chiarli & Figli is recognized with the prestigious "Mention Honorable" award.
On the other hand, Germany and France take the first places for sweet wine and Champagne (the latter being an all too obvious outcome) with the award at Weingut Werner Anselmann GMBH of Edesheim for Riesling Beerenauslese Edesheimer Rosengarten Deutscher Prädikatswein Pfalz 2015 in the dessert category with a high score (96) and to the “Champagne Aoc Brut Cuvèe “Louise” 2002 by Vranken Pommery Monopole of Reims which obtains the Trophy with 94 points.
«This first edition of 5 Star Wines has gone beyond our expectations both for the quality of the entered wines and for the value expressed by the companies – commented Ian D'Agata, coordinator of the jury and scientific director of the Vinitaly International Academy -. The Award, which has been able to enhance international wines and also those from typically Italian vines, will be an incisive tool for communicating our wines on international markets".
Finally, it should be noted that the 'Gran Vinitaly 2016 special prize' (assigned to the producer who achieved the highest result calculated from the algebraic mean of the sum of the scores referring to all his samples that obtained an international "5 Star Wines" award divided by the numbers of the wines) was awarded ex aequo to the companies Weingut Werner Anselmann GMBH of Edesheim (Germany) and to the French Vranken Pommery Monopole of Reims.
In short, a new wind is blowing for Italian wine. «It is important to remember the path taken by wine - recalled the Minister for Agricultural Policies, Maurizio Martina on the occasion of the conference organized by Coldiretti "It happened tomorrow, 30 years after methanol, wine and Made in Italy towards quality" - especially to those sectors such as animal husbandry and fruit and vegetables that today see no way out of their crisis. Just like he didn't see the wine in 1986. But let's not forget the future challenges. Starting with quality, which is not an acquired fact, just as the game of simplification has not been won, just as the chapter on research has not closed. Indeed, I think that the wine supply chain demonstrates the opposite given that the sequencing of the vine genome has been carried out in Italy in recent years and this explains that there is an Italian way to research and it certainly does not pass through obscurantism».
