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Feb 09
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Drinks International Wine Tourism Awards 2017 for Best Food and Wine Matching Experience for Zonin1821!

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Zonin1821 with its impressing Tuscan Gastronomy Experience in Castello di Albola has been acknowledged by the prestigious Drinks International Wine Tourism Awards 2017 for Best Food and Wine Matching Experience. The Drinks International Wine Tourism Awards aim at recognising the estates that successfully implement wine tourism to support their main focus of wine making. The international judging panel commented on us being the winner in the category for Food & Wine Matching Experience: “It’s all about the region and the identity. It’s very well thought through. It’s a really rich, in depth, and all day experience”.

Feb 09
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Platinum and Gold for us at Winemaker Challenge!

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Zonin1821 wines did very well at the US Winemaker Challenge! This is a wine competition organized by Robert Whitley, publisher and managing partner of the Wine Review Online.
The Winemaker Challenge is part of the “Challenge” series of wine competitions conceived by syndicated wine columnist Robert Whitley. It joins Critics Challenge and Sommelier Challenge in delivering evaluation of wines from the unique perspective of three important sectors of the wine industry — winemakers, sommeliers and wine journalists — often looked to for professional analysis. Its goal is to provide the best environment for wine tasting and evaluation. Results will be posted shortly after the competition on WinemakerChallenge.com and WineReviewOnline.com:

Feb 09
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We are 2016 Impact Hot Brand!

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ZONIN1821 wines has been named “2016 Impact Hot Brand” for the fifth year in a row by Impact magazine, and this year the “Hot Brand” award will be given to Prosecco Zonin (winner of the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 editions) and to Castello del Poggio. This award – that highlights the tremendous growth the Zonin brand has achieved in the US market – is given by M. Shanken Communications (Wine Spectator Publishing House) annually to established brands that achieve superior sales growth and performance in the marketplace.

Feb 03
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Zonin Family among the Meininger’s “Families of Wine”

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Every 2 years the German Publishing House Meininger publishes “Families of Wine”, a report on the most successful international families of wine. In the first months of 2017 the dossier will be distributed with the main Meiningers’ wine magazines (Weinwirtschaft, Weinwelt, Sommelier Magazine, Wine Business International, Fizz and Getraenke Zeitung). In attachment you find the article on the Zonin Family and his story.

Feb 03
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Castello di Albola in Decanter’s Italy Supplement

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The British wine journalist Monty Waldinwrote the article “Keeping cool in the Chianti Classico hills”, where he explains that Castello di Albola is one of the more proactive Estates dealing positively with the climate change in Chianti Classico. Furthermore he rated our Castello di Albola Chianti Classico Docg 2012 with 92 points. The article – in attachment – will be published in the Decanter’s Italy supplement which comes out along with the Decanter’s February issue.

Feb 03
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Castello di Albola mentioned in “Chianti Classico: The Search for Tuscany’s Noblest Wine” essay by Master of Wine Bill Nesto

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The Master of Wine Bill Nesto wrote the essay “Chianti Classico: The Search for Tuscany’s Noblest Wine”, recently published by University of California Press (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520284425).
Castello di Albola and the Zonin family are mentioned several times in the book (see an example in attachment).
Bill Nesto, founder of the Wine Studies Program at Boston University’s Metropolitan College, will present his book in New York at Eataly Flatiron next January 18th and in Florence at Chianti Classico Collection next February 13th and 14th.