Archive for month: January, 2018

JANUARY 03, 2018

From: www.wineducationalboard.com

The most read pocket guidebook in the world will have two italian voices to …

Ian D’Agata (Collisioni’s Wine&Food Project Creative Director, VINOUS Senior Editor, Vinitaly International scientific Consulant and Vinitaly International Academy scientific Director) and Michele Longo (Wine Educational Board and Barolo&Co redactor) will edit the Italian section of the 42nd edition of the “Pocket Wine Book” written by Hugh Johnson (General Editor: Margaret Rand) that will be published this summer; an absolute global Best Seller, still nowadays the most sold guidebook in the world and highly considered beacouse of its recognized reliability. It is a great privilege that two italians will write about Italy and its wines.

Ian d’Agata: “I read the Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book since I was a teenager; it is the world best seller concerning books about wines. Still today, for example, I preserve my old copies of 1988 and 1993; those are memories that I don’t want to lose and furthermore are useful to remember how much the wine world has changed with time. To be the editor of the Italian wine section is a great honor and a goal of my wine writer’s career. As an italian that lives in Italy, furthermore, it gives me the possibility to write a lot about little realities and wine producers that maybe some foreign writers could miss. By this way, instead, I can keep doing good things to the italian wine, to its vines and its territories, makeing it become more and more famous, better and better.”

Michele Longo: “It was the first “guidebook” that I have bought when I started to approach the wine world, and today as at that time, you can keep taking it with you in your eno-travels, beacouse it manteined the same dimensions. It is considered since always, by fans and experts, as a wine Gospel and, despite the material and information that we can found “on-line”, it keeps being a world best seller, that contemplates and condenses in a significant and very readable  way, informations about wines all over the world and about theirs producers. I would have never guessed, when I bought my first copy more than 20 years ago, that one day, thanks to Ian, I would have been able to contribute to the wine section of my Country. It was an unique experience, funny and exciting; a manner to study in-depth and to tell with a different style the richness of our wine heritage”.

We can certainly say that the contribution of these two minds to the guidebook will increase even more the authoritativeness of both the italian wine world and the guidebook itslef. It will be illuminating for the readers to benefit of their knowledges and it is a pride having them as pillars in the Collisioni’s Wine Project.