The Osteria in Scandiano restaurant was the venue for a Lambrusco & Rock’n’roll event on 6 September last year, designed to make contact with the Italian Ho.Re.Ca market. The event was an opportunity to share Emilia Wine’s current approach to the Ho.Re.Ca market with agents working within Italy. It looked at national plans, developments and…

Grapes only from the best hilly vineyards, a carefully selected combination of the area’s historic varieties and targeted, limited quantity production: these are the three main ingredients in the new Pra di Bosso Lambrusco given the name Storico - historic - in accordance with the Casali Viticultori winery which has been working in the Reggio…

Invernaia is the new Casali Viticultori project. It is a wine range which shines the spotlight on local historical, cultural and artistic values. ‘Our intention with this new range is to underline once again, and even more powerfully, Casali Viticultori’s bond with the area’s value universe’, says Marco Fasoli, Emilia Wine’s managing director. ‘Fragrance, crispness…

It was first mentioned in the 15th century when the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Bianca Cappello, eulogised it as an extremely fine wine. Over the centuries it has been given many names, Pomoria, Pellegrina, Spergolina or Spargolina, culminating in it being added to the DOC Colli di Scandiano e Canossa simply as Spergola. It is thus a…

Not all sparkling wines are the same and the same is true of the processes used to make them. Different winemaking techniques give different characteristics to the end product and some are better suited than others to specific grape varieties. The charmat method - the brainchild of Italian Federico Martinotti in 1895 but then patented…

Agriturismo Il Bove, just outside Reggio Emilia, was the venue for the Emilia Wine & Friends event on 16 June last year. The event was conceived of as a chance to meet our international market partners, present the new commercial project Emilia Wine is developing to them and foster dialogue. After a year of exports…

The awards handed out at the last edition of Vinitaly Design International Packaging Competition, which took place last 11tJune 2021 at Veronafiere, included the Migliolungo label.. This historic Emilia Wine group wine won the Etichetta d’Oro in the ‘DOP and IGP semi-sparkling wines’ category. Lambrusco Migliolungo was created in 2002 on the strength of a partnership…

Lambrusco, a semi-sparkling red, has been present in the Reggio Emilia area since time immemorial. It would seem to have been in Bronze Age times that the ancient inhabitants of the Terramare civilisations began farming vines. Its name Lambrusco came from the Latin vitis lambrusca, a term the Romans used for the wild vines which…

Lunedì 4 o Emilia Wine’s first Concilium ended on Monday 4 October.ttobre si è concluso il primo Concilium di Emilia Wine. A moment for contact between sector professionals to reinforce the powerful values we represent and share future ideas and plans. A great many new features were spoken of and we can’t wait to share them…

Great vintages for our grape varieties. Frascari (Emilia Wine): ‘A positive harvest and consumption levels have held up despite Covid’ A good year. In the words of the well-known Ridley Scott film starring Russell Crowe and Marillon Cotillard. All the signs are that the current harvest will be a good one. Almost a dream, if…