Traditional Christmas food in the world
Christmas, more than any other time of year, is an opportunity to eat traditional dishes often overlooked during the rest of the year. An example? Panettone, although there have been some recent attempts to commercialize it in the summer months. Christmas is the celebration gastronomically most important and not only for us Italians, but also for many people in Europe and overseas. As it happens in our homes, elsewhere too there is a...
Trends, marketing and wine tourism
If we talk about wine, the US continues to be a growing market. This means that there are many challenges for the producers but at the same time enormous opportunities. The US market continues to grow strongly. The per capita consumption is increasing by 5% a year, and at the moment there is no sign that might suggest that this trend may decrease. Analyzing the situation in different price ranges, the growth is strong in all...
SOME MOVIES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH WINE AND YOU CAN NOT MISS
Wine and cinema, an inevitable and continuous liaison with dozens, hundreds of movies where our beloved nectar becomes an irreplaceable protagonist in the plot of a movie. Cinema has often dedicated important spaces to wine and viticulture and long is the list of sequences that see them as characters. In some films, in fact, the wine seems almost a character, with a clearly defined role, which gives faces and meanings to the times of...
Gluten-free Pizza and Beer J63
Today celiac disease, autoimmune disease of the small intestine that occurs on genetically susceptible individuals of any age, is constantly increasing. In the last 25 years the cases during the piediatric age increased fivefold. The causes of this are probably to be found both in genetics, both in the environmental conditions and the quality of the ingredients that make up our daily diet. Many of us or our friends suddenly find...
Let the harvest 2016 begin!
Roshan Abenaim runs up and down the rows of vines in the warm light of the early morning. The air is still buzzing from the night before – September is coming up – and it is a pleasure to walk along the side of the sunny vineyard. The parched land crackles under the soles, the drought of the past month has been felt; although this summer has been milder than the previous one, the sky has been very poor of water in August...
Identikit of wine consumers in the BRIC countries
Chinese people love designed labels, and even in the wine they’re looking for the idea of status symbol and luxury: in short, “Brunello di Montalcino and Barolo as Valentino and Prada”. The Brazilians love to experiment with new labels while the Russians are willing to spend big money. This is the identikit of new global consumers, potential markets of the future reference for the Italian wine. In Europe, wine consumption...