How much does a wine change with its vineyard and the time it spends in the cellar? On Friday 23 October 2026, an AIS Lazio event with Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG producers at the A.Roma Lifestyle Hotel offered a useful way to explore that question. We were there. Entry was free, with advance booking. […]
It is a nice tradition of AIS Lazio to pair the sommelier diploma ceremony with a meeting on a theme or a territory, carefully curated and open to anyone who wants to take part. It is always a pleasure to go, when the calendar allows. On Sunday 18 October, in Rome, two territories took centre […]
Primo Franco is one of Valdobbiadene’s most respected names: his family has led Nino Franco Spumanti since the postwar years, and much of the credit for turning Prosecco Superiore into an internationally recognised designation — the DOCG that today coexists with the far broader DOC — belongs to him. Back in the 1980s he was […]
AI is changing how wine brands create images, videos and visual content. The tools are becoming faster and more accessible, but a more basic question remains: what happens when everyone can produce more and more content? At Beverella, we wanted to look at the issue from the perspective of someone working between wine, visual communication […]
The idea for this research came from a conversation I had over dinner with a colleague. Despite being a professional sommelier, he took for granted a belief that is still extremely widespread: screw caps are mainly suitable for young, immediate white wines, while cork remains the necessary choice for more important wines intended to evolve […]