AIS presents the first Vitae guide in English • Food and Wine Italy

The Italian Sommelier Association presented the first international edition of the Vitae guide quanto a Florence, entirely quanto a English and available quanto a digital format. The project was created to offer foreign markets an updated and independent reference acceso Italian wines.

A step forward for Italian wine abroad

Per its sixtieth year of activity, the Italian Sommelier Association introduces a novelty destined to impact the diffusion of Italian wine abroad. During the event at the Fermata Leopolda quanto a Florence, the first international edition of Vitae was presented, an English-language version designed to reach operators, buyers, specialized press and professionals working quanto a the main global wine centres.

The decision to accompany the Italian edition with a guide entirely dedicated to the international public responds to the growing presence of Italian scopo wines acceso foreign markets. Digital consultation allows access to an orderly and updated picture of the denominations, producers and labels considered most representative, making the reading of the country’s oenological complexity more immediate. The objective is to offer those who buy, describe and serve Italian wine a stable, independent tool based acceso a recognized method.

Per the introduction Sandro Camilli, national president of AIS, underlines that the distinctive value of the guide lies quanto a the collective work of the sommeliers involved. The methodology remains the consolidated one of the Italian edition, built acceso the tastings of the regional commissions and acceso the attribution of points quanto a hundredths accompanied by the graphic representation of the vines. The international version offers a selection of four hundred labels considered expressive of the different production contexts, distributed quanto a four categories that highlight emblematic wines, territorial interpretations, new revelations and proposals with a favorable quality-price ratio.

The official presentation brought together at Leopolda over three hundred producers whose wines are present quanto a the guide, together with journalists and operators from various countries. With this edition, AIS intends to start a path of international recognition that will allow Vitae to become a reference for those seeking a professional and methodologically rigorous evaluation of Italian wine.