These are the communications you always await with mixed emotions. First you can’t wait for them to arrive, then you forget about them for a while, then you start to get impatient, and whether good or bad, you want to know. And then—it always happens this way—the notification reaches you while you’re doing something else, and you want to take a moment for yourself to read it. You try to understand something from the subject line of the email, skip the preamble—you’ll come back to it later—and immediately jump to the conclusions: Il Grifone 2022 and Manifesto 2024 received the Red Award; Colle Vecchio 2024 the Gold Award. These are the wines you entered in the Wine Hunter Award competition and those colors are the awards they received.
What do you do at this point? You start smiling and telling everyone in the company: we won.
And that’s exactly how it is: this time, commitment, difficult choices, sleepless nights, and perseverance won. Believing in a project.
And it doesn’t end there!
The emails keep coming, and within a week you find yourself in the 12th edition of DoctorWine’s Essential Guide to Italian Wines by Daniele Cernilli.
The award-winning wine, the one the sommelier puts his name behind, is Colle Vecchio 2024, awarded the DoctorWine Faccino and a score of 95/100.
Colle Vecchio 2024, together with Manifesto 2024, is in Zosimo Wine Critic, both with Gold Medals. Vigna Messieri 2022 also appears in Carmelo Scandurra’s selection, with a Silver Medal.
A sparkling start to the month. Incredible. Too many emotions for just one month.
