Shot of an unforgettable and exciting moment from yesterday’s ceremony during the Presentation of the The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025 which celebrated the historic winners of the “A Life for Wine” award with a Reunion.
Yesterday, Saturday, September 28, during the presentation of The Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025, a unique Reunion was organized.
Daniele Cernilli called to the stage the historical winners of Una Vita per il Vino awarded since this special prize was established in The Essential Guide to Italian Wine in 2018.
We remind you: this award is meant to highlight the role and commitment of a protagonist of the Italian wine scene,
The protagonists of A Life for Reunion Wine.
Big names in Italian wine took the stage, from left in the photo, with director Daniele Cernilli:
- Emilio Pedron (formerly Gruppo Italiano Vini and Bertani Domains, awarded in the 2020 Guide),
- Massimo Bernetti(Umani Ronchi, 2019),
- Ambrogio Folonari (formerly Ruffino, then Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari Tenute, 2018),
- Sandro Boscaini (Masi, 2021),
- Piero Antinori(Marchesi Antinori2024),
- Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga(Tenuta San Leonardo 2024),
- Riccardo Cotarella (President Assoenologi, 2022).
The only excused absentee was Bruno Ceretto (2023), who was injured.
It was an exciting moment for everyone in the room who saw these sacred monsters of Italian vitienology of the last forty years gathered together to talk about wine.
The 2025 awardees
After the celebration of Italian wine history, those who won the Una Vita per il Vino award in this edition of the Guide took the stage.
This year the award came in threes to salute three prominent figures in the Italian wine world over the past decades who, for different reasons, are leaving it:
- Silvio Jermann, founder of the eponymous company that joined the Antinori group a few years ago;
- Paolo De Marchi, heart and soul of Isole and Olena, which also changed hands and specifically to the French EPI group;
- Hans Terzer, longtime Kellermeister of the Cantina Produttori San Michele Appiano, permanently retired.
