You don't need to pass out to drink a quality wine. Extremely useful and interesting indication for the pockets of wine enthusiasts in times of severe economic restrictions such as those we are forced to live under the nightmare of the pandemic. We might as well drink a good glass of wine not to think about it or at least to console ourselves. And you can drink a good cheap wine without sacrificing quality.
With the Berebene guide by Gambero Rosso, which tells the best of Italian enology under 13 euros, you can indulge yourself in the choices. There are 1530 labels from all Italian regions with over 850 Quality Price Awards. Wines available in wine shops, to which a large section is dedicated at the end of each region; on the shelves of supermarkets and in the windows of online shops, to which a small appendix has been reserved. But above all, wines that can be purchased for direct sale at the cellars themselves, thus having the opportunity to visit the companies and territories of Italian wine.
A guide that comes in a particular year that has seen the entire Italian food and wine sector suffer. The watchword, especially now, is to resist as did the winemakers, the artisans and the large cellars with millions of bottles featured in the publication. During the lockdown, the wines that proved most attractive to the consumer were precisely those positioned in the medium price range, below 20 euros per bottle. Furthermore, due to the restrictions faced by businesses and clubs, large-scale distribution and e-commerce were the protagonists of purchases, sales channels in which it is often very easy to come across bottles with low costs. The Gambero Rosso guide helps the consumer to move safely among the many labels that the Italian wine sector offers.
After the Guide there are also two days of tasting in Rome on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February 2021 during which in full compliance with the anti-contagion regulations it will be possible to taste the wines of Bere bene del Gambero Rosso, a way to restart together and start the new year with optimism.
National quality/price awards: white wines
Roero Arneis '19 – Cornarea
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Cl. Sup. Tre Ripe '19 – Pievalta
Terre di Cosenza Bianco Pircoca '18 – Masseria Falvo 1727
National quality/price awards: red wines
Valpolicella Sup. Ventale '18 – Saints
Chianti Colli Fiorentini '18 – Torre a Cona
Cannonau of Sardinia Sa Mola '18 – Alberto Loi
National quality/price awards: rosé wines
Valtènesi Chiaretto '19 – The Sincette
Mouth of Rose '19 – Giampaolo Tabarrini
Five Roses 76th Anniversary '19 – Leone de Castris
Regional quality/price awards
VALLE D'AOSTA Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle '19 – Cave Mont Blanc de Morgex et La Salle
PIEDMONT Dogliani San Luigi '19 – Subscribe
LIGURIA Western Ligurian Riviera Pigato '19 – Fontanacota
LOMBARDY Capriano del Colle Marzemino Berzamì '19 – Lazzari
TRENTINO Teroldego Rotaliano Et. Rossa '18 – Cantina Rotaliana
SOUTH TYROL Pinot Bianco Schulthauser '19 – San Michele Appiano Winery
VENETO Soave Cl. Otto '19 – Graziano Prà
FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA Collio Bianco Territory '18 – Cormòns Winery Producers
EMILIA-ROMAGNA Sangiovese Brisighella Corallo Rosso '18 – Gallegati
TUSCANY Ciliegiolo '19 – Antonio Camillo
MARCHE Rosso Piceno Sup. Castellano '17 – Colli Ripani Cellar
UMBRIA Colle di Giove '19 – Pardi Brothers
LAZIO Frascati Sup. '19 – Casale Marchese
ABRUZZO Pecorino Chronicon '19 – Ciccio Zaccagnini
MOLISE Molise Tintilia 200 Meters '19 – Tenimenti Grieco
CAMPANIA Amalfi Coast Ravello Bianco Selva delle Monache '19 – Ettore Sammarco
BASILICATA Aglianico del Vulture Verbo '18 – Cantina di Venosa
PUGLIA The Classic Rosé '19 – Mottura Wines of Salento
CALABRIA Rèfulu '19 – Casa Comerci
SICILY For You Perricone '18 – Ancient Fund
SARDINIA Vermentino of Sardinia Giancu '19 – U Tabarka Tanca Gioia
