The weekly review of news on Italian wine for the Chinese market!
We open with increasingly encouraging data on the export of Italian wine. As emerges from the Istat data, updated at the end of May and analyzed by WineNews, in the period January-May 2021, the total shipments of the wineries in the Belpaese reached 2.689 billion euros, up + 11.2% on the same period of 2020. , even better than the first 5 months of 2019 (+ 6.3%), when Italian wine exports reached 6.4 billion euros. Positive numbers for almost all the most important foreign markets for Italy, from the United States (+ 8.7%) to Germany (+ 5.6%), up to an extraordinary performance by China, which shows a growing interest in the wines of the boot with an 80% growth.
The interest of large investment funds for Italian wineries continues. After the acquisition of Botter by Clessidra, this time according to the newspaper Il Sole 24Ore it would be the turn of the historic Piedmontese group Fratelli Martini, with 208.2 million euros in turnover in 2020, which ended up in the crosshairs of private equity funds. The company, controlled by the family, could be valued at around 200 million euros. Mediobanca is said to be working on the dossier.
Let’s move on to an encounter between wine and comics. “Vendemmie Disegnate” is a festival signed by “VinComics”, conceived by an original community of authors and designers from the Disney and Bonelli universes, that is the cornerstones of Italian comics, convinced that every wine hides a story to tell, made up of organoleptic characteristics , history and culture, obviously through comics and graphic novels. The appointment is for 11 September, in Vernazza, in the heart of the Cinque Terre, where six cartoonists (Fabio Celoni, Paolo De Lorenzi, Francesco D’Ippolito, Andrea Freccero, Mattia Surroz and Stefano Zanchi) will tell, or rather they will draw, the grape harvest between two vineyards overlooking the sea of the Cinque Terre, involving 24 grape harvesters.
We close with an event scheduled for Chinese friends who will choose to spend their holidays in Italy. The Douja d’Or, the September wine festival in Asti, in the widespread formula inaugurated last year due to the pandemic, returns to Asti. Four weekends, starting from that of 11 and 12 September, to discover the best wines of the Piedmontese tradition, and beyond, and local gastronomic excellence. Among the novelties, the Cantina della Douja d’Or, a real wine shop set up in Piazza San Secondo where more than 500 labels will be collected to represent the excellence of wine production in the area.
That’s all for today, see you next time!
