{"id":3888,"date":"2022-07-31T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T03:30:44","slug":"item_4_914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/item_4_914\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Italian wines.. Guess Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3888\" class=\"elementor elementor-3888\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4720b6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4720b6a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53f09f7\" data-id=\"53f09f7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70aab53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70aab53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Posted: Sunday, 31 July 2022 09:25<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad9e937\" data-id=\"ad9e937\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cccb2a7\" data-id=\"cccb2a7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b4aea3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b4aea3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<u>If you Like this article, please click\n<iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 120px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=173955395995712&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwineguyindia&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=120&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=arial&amp;height=21\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/u>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9669605 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9669605\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b62f3ec\" data-id=\"b62f3ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0e78f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c0e78f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\">\n  <div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n      <h1 class=\"articlepagetitle_heading\"><font color=\"#990000\">From Archives (2006):<\/font> King of Italian wines.. Guess Who?<\/h1>\n                   <div class=\"articlepageintroline\">July 31: Guess who is the king of Italian wines? Is it Antinori, Gaja or Allegrini? Zonin or Frescobaldi? Or Nicol\u00f2 Incisa Della Rochetta, producer of the most famous Italian wine, Sassicaia? Use your own parameters to decide who the king is, says Subhash Arora.  <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"articledata\">\n    \n   \n  \n   <p>The criteria according to me is that the king should be the one   producing the maximum number of excellent quality wines and not mediocre   or mass-produced wines. What better way of judging than looking at the   results declared by <em>Gambero Rosso<\/em>, the wine guide\/book\/magazine   which has been working with Slow Food and evaluating thousands of wines   every year, from all wine producing regions of Italy since 1987. This   year&rsquo;s edition, released last month in Torino (the English version is   yet to be released) lists 16000 wines from over 2200 producers, making   it a king of the wine books\/guides from Italy.<\/p>\n   <p>Named after the   most commonly used restaurant name there, it awards &lsquo;glasses&rsquo; rather   than points like Robert Parker does, though the number of glasses   (bichhieri- tre, due, un) awarded is based on the points system. 130   tasters, connoisseurs and experts from all over Italy use their skills   to judge all wines offered during mid-April (right after VinItaly   concludes) to mid September. 282 producers have been awarded Tre   Bicchieri this year. The king should be logically the one having won the   most stars (one for each wine for that year).<\/p>\n   <p><strong>Gaja<\/strong> leads with 39 stars in the twenty years of the existence of the Guide.   This means that 39 wines have had the honour of winning Tre Bicchieri   during the last 20 years. Logically, this should make Gaja the king as   the next one closest to it is La Spinetta (Piemonte) with 30 stars;   Ca&rsquo;Del Bosco (Lombardia) trailing with 28 and Elio Altare (Piemonte),   Allegrini (Veneto) with 22, Antinori(Tuscany) with only 18 along with   Jermann (Friuli), and Feudi di San Gregorio (Campania) tieing with   Tenuta San Guido (Sassicaia fame) at 17. (There are some other wines   too, competing at these levels)<\/p>\n   <p>Here is an interesting twist to   the story. Gaja also has bought wineries in Tuscany. If one added stars   awarded in all the combined regions, Gaja would score 43. But <strong>Antinori<\/strong> whose presence is wider spread would end up with a combined total of 48 stars, making it the king.<\/p>\n   <p>It   would be fair to say that one of the two is the current king, depending   upon geographical assumptions. It is interesting to note that all of   the above wines are being imported into India , dispelling any myths   about only cheap wines entering the country. The two king importers have   divided the territory- Brindco imports Gaja (as well as Allegrini and   Jermann) whereas Sonarys sells Antinori 9(and Elio Altare etc. too).<\/p>\n   <p>Let us know who you think is the king- <strong>Gaja<\/strong> or <strong>Antinori<\/strong><\/p>\n   \n   \n   \n   <p><strong>&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n      \n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-96cd969 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"96cd969\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e0ce08b\" data-id=\"e0ce08b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67648bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67648bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><u>If you Like this article please click on the Like button<\/u> \u00a0\u00a0<br \/><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 120px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=173955395995712&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwineguyindia&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=120&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=arial&amp;height=21\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Sunday, 31 July 2022 09:25 If you Like this article, please click From Archives (2006): King of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-archives","tag-foodtravel"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","slider-bg":"","card-grid":"","card-list":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/category\/from-archives\/\" rel=\"category tag\">From Archives<\/a>","tag_info":"From Archives","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianwineacademy.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}