A flat 15 percent tariff, a weak dollar, and softening American demand pulled Italy’s wine exports down $340 million in 2025. Where the losses landed, why Germany held firm, and the new map Italian producers are drawing.
Italian Wine
The aperitivo began as a glass of aromatized wine in 1786 Turin. Most wine lists now treat the first pour as an afterthought.
Inside the Consorzio’s DOCG bid for Etna Bianco: Carricante’s east-face Grand Cru argument, three producers, and what ratification will (and won’t) change.
Etna’s wines have earned comparisons to Burgundy — not for their flavor, which belongs entirely to the volcano, but for the precision of a classification system that maps each lava flow to a distinct wine. An introduction to the contrada revolution.
A 15% tariff compounds at every tier of distribution. TERROIR examines how wine tariffs are reshaping prices, consumer habits, and the wines themselves.
Cover crops in vineyards sequester up to four times the carbon of typical cropland. The science, the trade-offs, and what leading regions now require.