VINO100/IAN D’AGATA 100 Selected Italian Wines 2025 A Smashing Success

https://youtu.be/B-a51XgGQOw Called by more than one attendee “the best Italian wine show held in China in years if not ever”, there can be no denying that this year’s VINO100/Ian D’Agata 100 Selected Italian Wines 2025 was a huge success, the likes of which many locals made clear they have no memory of. And perhaps more […]

A Huge Success: the Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau’s Ian D’Agata Italian Wine Journey

With 1706 and 1007 guest rooms and suites respectively and over eighty dining destinations, the Wynn Palace and the Wynn Macau hotels and casinos are very much like small cities of their own, the only resorts worldwide with six individual Forbes Travel Guide (FTG) Five-Star awards. Brought to Macau by world-famous hotelier Steve Wynn of Las Vegas […]

This Week in the Ian D’Agata Wine Review, May 26-June 1, 2025

This Week in the Ian D’Agata Wine Review (May 26-June 1, 2025) Monday, May 26 Weekly Wines in the Spotlight: GD Vajra & Puchang  Tuesday, May 27 Restaurant Review: Cafe’ du Palais in Reims Wednesday, May 28 News: VINO100 and the Italian Wine Week in Shanghai take the city by storm Thursday, May 29 MicroMegaWines 2025: More Great Wines […]

Now Available, Ian D’Agata’s Brand New Book, Italian Wine Terroirs, Further Raises the Bar for Italian Wine Books

Italian Wine Terroirs is the brand-new wine book written by Ian D’Agata, together with long-time friend and colleague Michele Longo, and is available at www.amazon.com. It’s a an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping doozy, already dubbed a “masterpiece” by Michelin star restaurant sommeliers, wine writing colleagues and wine producers. After having published two years ago their award-winning The […]

Neil Empson, Pioneer of Fine Italian Wine in the US Market, Passes Away

Neil Empson was a good man. That is, by far, the single most important thing one can say about anyone who passes away. What really counts is not that said person was an important man,  or a famous man, which of course Neil Empson was, but a good man. Because Neil was both famous and […]