Italian Sommeliers Association
Italian Sommeliers is an open association committed to the promotion of the culture of wine
Siena, 4th November, 2020 – Once again, the jewels of Tuscan wines – Brunello and Chianti – are at the centre of illegal trade, stopped by Italian police.
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Breaking News | China shows muscles on Australia wines.
Wine industry sources say Australian wine imports will not clear Chinese customs after this Friday 6th November (China’s Ministry of Commerce did not confirm the news).
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Since today, August 18 2020, China’s Ministry of Commerce had begun an anti-dumping investigation into imports of wine from Australia following a call from the China Wine and Spirit Association (CAWS) on behalf of the domestic industry last month.
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The geographical term “Tuscany” will necessarily accompany all the labels of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano. The changes to the disciplinary of Montepulciano wines also published in the Official Journal of the EU.
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2019 Top 5 Wine Importers
USA is the biggest wine importers with almost 6.000 million US$ (around 5.400 million €) of bottled wine equivalent to almost 1.200 million bottles 75cl.
After the UK in the second place, China is the 3rd largest market (considering bottled wine only, if we include bulk wine Germany is the 3rd largest). Since sparkling wine is not significant, in 2019 China imported almost 2.300 million US$ (around 2.100 million €) of still bottled wines (<2 litres) equivalent to over 620 million bottles 75cl.
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Poggibonsi (Italy), 20 March 2020
In 2019 China imported bottled still wine amounted to 2.29 billion US$ (approximately 2.15 billion €) for over 474 million of litres (approximately 630 million bottles of 75cl), a decrease of -14.26% year-on-year.
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Singapore, 23 November 2019 – In the last few years during visits to wine exhibitions in Asia I have noticed an increase of “new” styles of wine presented: “Appassimento” – dried grapes wine – and “Governo” wine. While I will talk about the former next time, today I would like to focus on the latter.
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For the second time, Vito Donatiello has been awarded the prestigious title of “Italian Wine Ambassador” for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of Italian wine in Asia.
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The first 8 months of 2019 confirm Australia China’s largest wine exporter, with over 550 million US$ and 35% of market share, before France (2nd with 487 million US$) and Chile (3rd with 193 million US$), according to CAWS (Chinese Association of Wine & Spirit Importers).
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