Inspired by the Italian wine tradition and aimed at enhancing local roots, territory and typicity, Vinibuoni d’Italia of Touring Club Italiano gives a clear signal to consumers and to the Italian and foreign market, on the made in Italy of wine.
The guide is unique, in the Italian and international scene, because it is the only one dedicated to the wine from native vine, the ones 100% produced by vine varieties that have been in the Peninsula for over 300 years. These wines are an established reality in the Italian wine scene. Even the large audience of enthusiasts has learned to recognize and appreciate wines coming from historical vines that have their roots in the past and in the most authentic traditions of a place.
Born 16 years ago, when the team of autochthonous wines was at the forefront, Vinibuoni d’Italia is the result of a quality work by a team of experts (coordinated by’ Mario Busso and Alessandro Scorsone) that every year meets up in a regional tasting commitee and selects the best wines.
Divided into 21 regional chapters (Trentino and South Tyrol are divided into two chapters), the guide leads fans to discover the thousand wines, the thousand wineries and the thousand worlds of autochthonous tradition: small family-run enterprises, social cooperatives and modern wineries, wines of great structure and ‘everyday’ wines.
The wines that obtain more votes receive the Corona, the highest award that the guide attributes to the best selected native wines; whereas the others achieve the’ Golden Star.
The 2021 guide assigns two Corone to the wines of Cantina Toblino:
VINO SANTO Trentino Doc 2004
LAS Lagrein Trentino Doc Bio 2016
These wines are pleasure and complex and have a defined character: wines of strong emotions, able to enhance the senses of every passionate winelover.
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James Suckling is one of today’s leading wine critics whose reviews are read and respected by wine lovers, serious wine collectors, and the wine trade worldwide. Suckling spent nearly 30 years as Senior Editor and European Bureau Chief of’ Wine Spectator. On his departure from the magazines, Forbes called the Los Angeles-born writer “one of the world’s most powerful wine critics.”
In late 2010, Suckling launched his website that evolved from him seeing a need for wine to be communicated in a more modern way. The crux of the site are his tasting notes, and James and his team of critics rate everything with the 100-point scale. The site also offers subscribers video content from wineries around the world.
James Suckling assigned some important scores to the wines of Cantina Toblino:
““ Da Fòra Manzoni Bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 92 points
““ Praal Pinot Bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 91 points
““ Foll Chardonnay Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 91 points
““ Las Lagrein Trentino Doc 2016 Bio ““ 90 points
Reasearch in the archive shows that no white wine from Trentino has ever received 92 points from James Suckling. This is a source of great pride and satisfaction for all of us, for our members and for the whole Valle dei Laghi.
The Wine Hunter Award & Merano Wine Festival: “Back to the roots”
The WineHunter Award is the award of the Merano Wine Festival, established by Helmuth Koecher, of excellence and high quality awarded annually to wine and culinary products, spirits and beers.
The prize is awarded to national and international products which, following a careful evaluation, reach a minimum score of 90 points out of 100, and guarantees the final consumer the superior quality of the product.
About 7,000 wines tasted of which 3,100 awarded by The WineHunter. The Red Award (90 – 92.99 points) 2,300 wines and the Gold Award (93 – 95.99 points) 800 wines. Of the latter, the best make up the TOP 100 from which the winners of the most coveted award, the Platinum Award (96 – 100 points) will emerge.
In addition to the wines, the guide also presents 380 excellences in the gastronomic field divided into the Food – Spirits – Beer categories and selected from over 500 products tasted, in addition to those awarded in 2019 whose recognition is valid for two years. 240 products that get the Red Award and 140 the Gold, while the TOP 50 nominates the best gastronomic products to the Platinum Award that is assigned in October.
The guide also proposes the publication of the TOP 5 of each region, a selection of wines chosen from those that best represent the different Italian regional territories according to Helmuth Köcher.
The Wine Hunter Award 2020 recognized to Cantina Toblino wines the following awards:
GOLD Prà al Pinot bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO da Fòra Manzoni bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Foll Chardonnay Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Vino Santo Trentino Doc 2004
ROSSO Antares Trento Doc 2016 Brut Millesimato
Merano Wine Festival, back to the roots: The WineHunter Helmuth Köcher faces COVID-19 with courage and organization and confirms the dates of the 29th edition scheduled from 6 to 10 November 2020 without upsetting the traditional format, returning to its origins in that distant 1992 where the history of the most glamorous food & wine event was written in the world.