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My congratulations to Yang Lu Ms and Lingzi He named to future 50 list

The Future 50 list has just been launched this year to help celebrate and mark the joint 50 anniversaries of theWine & Spirit Education Trust and IWSC. It identifies fifty individuals under 40 years of age who are thought likely to play major players in the world of international wine in the years to come. The final […]

November 2019 Ian D’Agata is named vice president of The Association International Des Terroirs (Ait)

Ian D’Agata has been appointed to the governing board as Vice President of the newly founded Association Internationale des Terroirs (AIT) on November 23-24 at the 4th International Terroir Renaissance Symposium in Shanghai, China. The AIT’s goals are to teach, promote, and broadcast terroir in relation to wine, tea, and all foodstuffs. The President of the AIT is Thibault Liger-Belair (of […]

The new edition of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is out now

The world’s best selling wine guide, with over 12 Million copies sold worldwide, Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Book of Wine, brilliantly managed by Margaret Rand (the General Editor) is on sale now. The 2020 Edition contains up-to-the-minute information on more than 6000 wines and growers, quick reference vintage charts, illustrated supplements on organic, natural and biodynamic wines, the Italy section is once again […]

October 2019 Veronafiere and Vinitaly announce Micromegawines

Vinitaly’s New Section  Devoted To Small-Volume, Artisanal Wines Made With Both Native And International Grapes In Milan this past October, Veronafiere President Maurizio Danese and general director Giovanni Mantovani announced themany new aspects of the 2020 edition of Vinitaly, amongst which there is the launch of MicroMegaWines, a new section of Vinitaly that will feature 36 […]

September 2019 Ian D’Agata leaves vinous and moves on to new challenges and activities

After five highly fun and enjoyable years spent working with people the wine knowledge of which he respects immensely, Ian D’Agata has decided to move on from Vinous in order to engage in a different lifestyle and to accept a diversity of new challenges, such as for example increasing his work in wine education. Asked […]

August 2019 texsom and southern italian wines with Laura De Pasquale MS

“It’s always a pleasure to speak on Italian wines at Texsom, and even more so to do so with Laura De Pasquale MS, one of the most likeable and most knowledgeable people I have ever met in wine, as well as one of the wine world’s keenest minds” was Ian D’Agata’s comment after finishing the […]

Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2020

Once again this year, the Italy section of the “Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine Book” (now in its 43rd year of publication – General Editor: Margaret Rand) that will be available this coming summer, will be edited by Ian   D’Agata and Michele Longo. According to D’Agata, “… I have looked upon the Italy section in […]

APRIL 2019: come say “hi” to Ian at the following tastings and seminars he will be guiding at Vinitaly 2019!

Last year, after a few meetings with Veronafiere general director Giovanni Mantovani and Vinitaly food and wine area manager Gianni Bruno, Ian D’Agata agreed to continue on as scientifc advisor of the fair. “I have always considered it an honour to collaborate with Vinitaly, and am both proud and happy to do anything I can […]

“A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD IN 88 DAYS”

“On the road”, Ian’s way: a world tour of great wines, places and friends! January 2019: Rome, Lazio wine region, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York City February 2019: NYC, Toronto, the Ontario Niagara and Prince Edward Country wine regions, Montalcino, Copenhagen, Riga, and Asti March 2019: Montalcino (on two different occasions), Abruzzo wine country, London, […]

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019: LEADING PRIVATE WINE CLUBS IN THE USA AND FRANCE HOLD MEGATASTINGS ON ITALIAN WINE

      Over the years Ian has devoted himself to improving knowledge about Italian wine not just amongst the younger set of wine lovers and wine professionals alike, but also amongst wealthy collectors who have always bought heavily into Bordeaux and Burgundy, but who perhaps had let Italy slightly slip them by. And so, […]