Milan Wine Week 2025 returns with its eighth edition from 4 to 12 October the Lombard capital with a calendar full of appointments that combine lifestyle, culture, innovation, entertainment and of course wine.
Per mezzo di this edition, Milan Marriott Albergo will be the new headquarter of the multiple events scheduled during the event: from the wine tourism to sustainability, from consumer to sector operators. Among the novelties of this year, South Africa and Georgia will be the international countries of honor, protagonists with their most prestigious labels with Walk Around Tasting and dedicated events.
“Milan Wine Week 2025 is our response to a moment of profound transformation for the world of wine and food, determined only part by commercial duties. We wanted to build a project that was increasingly inclusive and contemporary, capable of speaking to the new generations thanks to a pop language and its highly experiential nature, but also able to enhance the extraordinary heritage of our territories and our producers,” comments Federico Gordini, president of Mww. “This is not just an event: we are talking about a multisensory journey that involves the entire city and that crosses different languages - from art to , from lifestyle to innovation – to tell the wine as an alive element of Italian and European culture. Making the wine and the city of Milan dal vivo through format of unpublished experiences is the that we continue to carry to communicate an innovative way a sector great evolution.”
Here are only some of the appointments not to be missed of the thick calendar.
Sunday 5 October is the turn of Wine List Italia, now its third edition. The guide tells the world of wine through the eyes of the best Italian sommeliers, with the aim of giving voice to a category often not very visible, but fundamental the sector. 1000 national and international labels selected by 100 professionals the Italian Vestibolo, and a large tasting event, which will quasi to life the Marriott rooms, following the presentation of the opera. Acceso Monday 6 October, the producers themselves will then-the 100 most cited wineries the guide-to tell an unpublished Walk-ring tasting their wines, offering a direct dialogue with sommelier, buyer and opinion leaders. Per mezzo di addition, a percentage of sales collections relating to the event and driving will be donated to the Francesca Rava Foundation support of childhood and adolescence conditions of unease, mothers and delicato women Italy, Haiti and the world.
Also Monday 6 October, from 18.30 to 21.00, the MWS Awards return to celebrate the quality and care the winery selection by the catering operators (Wine Card Card Award) and qualified detail (Wine Retail Award), both Italy and abroad (Best Italian Wine Selection Award). Passion, attention to the product, enhancement of the territories and sensitivity towards emerging trends are some of the criteria which the jury will be based, chaired by the critic Andrea Grignaffini to recognize the central role of those who contribute to the spread of the culture of wine every day through tables, cards and cellars.
The wine sector under the Nielsen IQ lens: Wednesday 8 October, the day dedicated to the paesaggio analysis, Wine IQ will be presented, a special scheduled from 17.00 to 19.00 to tell, with the involvement of experts and operators of the esposizione sector, trend, as well as forecasts the future of the wine world.
Among the rooms of the Marriott also a Walk Around Tasting Consenziente, an appointment that combines tasting with fundraising for a very important cause: 10 October, from 18.00 to 22.30, the 24 wineries of Tuscany will be present a large tasting bench that will allocate all the proceeds to the Oncological Radiotherapy Foundation (FRO).
Not only that, there will be many masterclasses with great protagonists, the opportunities for with the producers and with the world of culture, but also of lifestyle and fun.
