In addition to the rating of wines in cents, with facsimiles graphically representing the awards, there is also a system of rating wineries from zero to three stars in the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy. Of course, 3 stars is the maximum.
The stars constitute an overall evaluation of the winery, not directly related to the wines presented and evaluated in the current edition of the guide, but linked to other parameters. The importance of the brand, first of all, its emblematicity in the territory to which it belongs. Then its journey over the past decades, quality reliability and international image.
There are 126 producers in the guide who have the maximum three-star rating this year throughout Italy, with seven new entries: Altemasi and Cavit in Trentino, Cavalleri in Lombardy, G. Battista Columbu in Sardinia, Monchiero Carbone in Piedmont, Ruffino in Tuscany and Tenuta di Fiorano in Lazio.
Simplifying, we could say that these are the best companies in Italy for us.
- Allegrini, Veneto
- Elio Altare, Piedmont
- Altemasi, Trentino
- Antinori, Tuscany
- Antoniolo, Piedmont
- Argiolas, Sardinia
- Baglio del Cristo in Campobello, Sicily
- Batasiolo, Piedmont
- Bellavista, Lombardy
- Guido Berlucchi, Lombardy
- Bertani, Veneto
- Biondi Santi – Tenuta Il Greppo, Tuscany
- Giacomo Borgogno and Sons, Piedmont
- Brovia, Piedmont
- Bucci, Marche
- Ca’ del Bosco, Lombardy
- Winery Bolzano / Kellerei Bozen, South Tyrol
- Kellerei Girlan Winery, South Tyrol
- Kellerei Tramin Winery, South Tyrol
- Cantina Produttori San Michele Appiano / Kellerei St. Michael Eppan, South Tyrol
- Terlan Winery / Kellerei Terlan, South Tyrol
- Cantine Lunae, Liguria
- Capezzana, Tuscany
- Arnaldo Caprai, Umbria
- Casanova di Neri, Tuscany
- Juval Castle Unterortl, South Tyrol
- Castellare di Castellina, Tuscany
- Castello della Sala, Umbria
- Castle of Fonterutoli, Tuscany
- Castle of Monsanto, Tuscany
- Spessa Castle, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Volpaia Castle, Tuscany
- Cavalleri, Lombardy
- Cavit, Trentino
- Ceretto, Piedmont
- Michele Chiarlo, Piedmont
- G. Battista Columbu, Sardinia
- Giacomo Conterno, Piedmont
- Coppo, Piedmont
- Cottanera, Sicily
- Cusumano, Sicily
- Romano Dal Forno, Veneto
- Marco De Bartoli, Sicily
- Dievole, Tuscany
- Donnafugata, Sicily
- Cotarella Family, Latium
- Zerbina Farm, Romagna
- Livio Felluga, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Fèlsina, Tuscany
- Ferrari Trento, Trentino
- Gianfranco Fino Winemaker, Apulia
- Florio, Sicily
- Fontanafredda, Piedmont
- Fontodi, Tuscany
- Frescobaldi, Tuscany
- Gabbas, Sardinia
- Gaja, Piedmont
- Garofoli, Marche
- Bruno Giacosa, Piedmont
- Elio Grasso, Piedmont
- Grattamacco, Tuscany
- Gravner, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Gump Hof – Markus Prackwieser, South Tyrol
- The Pollenza, Marche
- Illuminati, Abruzzo
- Islands and Olena, Tuscany
- Jermann, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Köfererhof, South Tyrol
- Le Macchiole, Tuscany
- Les Crêtes, Aosta Valley
- Lungarotti, Umbria
- Marchesi di Barolo, Piedmont
- Marquises of Grésy, Piedmont
- Bartolo Mascarello, Piedmont
- Masciarelli, Abruzzo
- Masi – Serego Alighieri, Veneto
- Massolino Vigna Rionda, Piedmont
- Mastroberardino, Campania
- Miani, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Monchiero Carbone, Piedmont
- Monsupello, Lombardy
- Montevetrano, Campania
- Muri-Gries, South Tyrol
- Nino Franco, Veneto
- Nino Negri, Lombardy
- Oasi degli Angeli, Marche
- Ornellaia and Masseto, Tuscany
- Palari, Sicily
- Piaggia, Tuscany
- Pieropan, Veneto
- Pietracupa, Campania
- Pius Caesar, Piedmont
- Planeta, Sicily
- Poggio di Sotto, Tuscany
- Poliziano, Tuscany
- Barbaresco Producers, Piedmont
- Querciabella, Tuscany
- Giuseppe Quintarelli, Veneto
- Quintodecimo, Campania
- Ricasoli, Tuscany
- Roagna I Paglieri, Piedmont
- Ruffino, Tuscany
- Russiz Superiore, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- San Leonardo, Trentino
- San Patrignano, Romagna
- Luciano Sandrone, Piedmont
- Schiopetto, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Sella & Mosca, Sardinia
- Sottimano, Piedmont
- Tasca d’Almerita, Sicily
- Tenuta di Fiorano Boncompagni Ludovisi, Latium
- Tenuta San Guido, Tuscany
- Tenuta Sette Ponti, Tuscany
- Tiefenbrunner Estate – Schlosskellerei Turmhof, South Tyrol
- Dettori Estates, Sardinia
- Franco Toros, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Tua Rita, Tuscany
- Umani Ronchi, Marche
- Valentini, Abruzzo
- Velenosi, Marche
- Venica&Venica, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Vie di Romans, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Vietti, Piedmont
- Vodopivec, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Volpe Pasini, Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Elena Walch, South Tyrol
