Italian Wine Consortium

The Italian Wine world is composed of thousands of individual winemakers. 60,000 producers squeeze out 50 million hectolitres of wine each year and compete against one another to create the best Barolo, Brunello, etc etc. This is wonderful for us, the consumer, we have a seemingly infinite choice of wines all striving for supreme quality…

Italian Wine Fraud

This year Italian Wine overtook French as the world’s most exported wine so it’s not surprising that the industry is riddled with con artists attempting to take a piece of the action. Italy has been on the receiving end of some of the largest wine scams ever seen with a famous recent example effecting the…