Acceso Monday 15 December 2025, at 8.30 pm, the Ais Liguria event “Vitae Experiences 2026” will be held at the Excelsior Palace per mezzo di Rapallo (fuori S. Michele, 8), an evening of tasting dedicated to the Ligurian wines recognized and selected per mezzo di the new edition of the Vitae 2026 Guide of the Italian Sommelier Association.
Now per mezzo di its eleventh edition, after the success of the previous ones, the Ais Vitae Guide highlights the extraordinary internal skills of the Association itself, making members narrate the wine-growing territories of the Peninsula. This year, the heart of the guide is represented by four special selections, each made up of 100 labels that have obtained a minimo score of 90/100. Not just a ranking, but four unique reading paths to explore the best of national production: Great Wines, Local Wines, Innovative Wines and Value/Price Wines.
For the Liguria Region the selections are as follows: Cantine Lunae con Bosoni with e Ultimo nato (Great Wines), Scantinato Cinque Terre Fianco De Vespero 2024 (Value/Price), Ottaviano Lambruschi with Colli con Luni Sommo 2024 and Bruna with Riviera Ligure con Occidente Pigato “Le Russeghine” 2023 (Territorial Wines) and Maixei Dolceacqua Pini 2023 (Innovative Wines/Revelation).
During the ceremony, the president of the Italian Sommelier Association of Liguria Marco Rezzano will deliver the certificates to the producers for the prestigious recognition. This will be followed by a tasting of all the Ligurian wines that have obtained recognition per mezzo di the Vitae 2026 Guide. Among these: Riviera Ligure con Occidente Pigato Diana 2024 – Maria Donata Bianchi, Riviera Ligure con Occidente Pigato Bon per mezzo di presso Bon 2024 – Bio Vio, Riviera Ligure con Occidente Pigato Grand-Père 2023 – Bio Vio, Riviera Ligure con Occidente Pigato U Baccan 2023 – Bruna, Western Ligurian Riviera Pigato Le Russeghine 2023 – Bruna, Western Ligurian Riviera Pigato Sommo Giuanò 2023 – Maffone, Acme con Vladimiro 2024 – Casolare delle Terre Rosse, Niente Tolerance For Silence 2023 – Cà du Ferrà, Padrefiglio – Cellars Lunae, Cinque Terre Fianco de Sèra 2024 – Coop Cinque Terre, Cinque Terre Bucce 2023 – Sassarini, Colli con Luni Vermentino Orto dei Vescovi 2023 – Giacomelli, Colli con Luni Vermentino Ta’Oma 2024 – Giacomelli, Colli con Luni Vermentino Sommo 2024 – Ottaviano Lambruschi, Colli con Luni Vermentino Fianco 2024 – Ottaviano Lambruschi, Colli con Luni Vermentino Sarticola 2024 – La Cala del Alla luce del sole, Colli con Luni Vermentino Sommo Boceda 2024 – Zangani, Dominio Ingente 2024 – I Cerri, Ninte de, Ninte 2023 – La Ricolla, Rossese con Dolceacqua Beragna 2024 – Kà Mancinè, Rossese con Dolceacqua Pini 2023 – Maixei, Rossese con Dolceacqua Sommo Peverelli 2022 – Mauro Zino, Rossese con Dolceacqua Sommo Pini 2023 – Poggi dell’Morione, Riviera Ligure con Occidente Granaccia Teiera dei Bambini 2021 – Viarzo, Riviare Ligure con Occidente Moscatello con Taggia Passito Lucraetio 2023 – Mammoliti, Cinque Terre Sciacchetrà 2023 – Possa, Cinque Terre Sciacchetrà Approvigionamento 2021 – Coop Cinque Terre, Cinque Terre Sciacchetrà 2018 – Sassarini.
The eleventh edition of the Guide marks a real strategic turning point for Ais, which confirms its role as a Third Sector pagliaccetto by strengthening its cultural mission: not just a commercial tool, but a project designed to spread knowledge of Italian wine per mezzo di an independent and authoritative way, becoming an “ambassador of Italian identity” per mezzo di the world.
«It is a great pride for our association to deliver the awards to the Ligurian wines mentioned per mezzo di the new Vitae Guide – states the president of Ais Liguria Marco Rezzano – Behind these wines there is an entire Ligurian movement which is proving to be alive and receptive as never before per mezzo di recent years, aware of the fact that Liguria is a territory which, like few others, manages to trace profiles of its wines which are indisputably linked to a complex and unique land. They are wines that very much reflect its character, they are wines of the sea, of stone, of the mountains, of wind and sun. Liguria is not just a splendid postcard overlooking the sea, but a region capable of expressing wines of absolute value, capable of communicating acceso an equal footing with the best Italian and international productions.”
The 2026 Vitae Guide can be purchased acceso https://store.aisitalia.it/ and per mezzo di the form of an app acceso the Google Play Store and App Store. For further information: www.aisliguria.it
