Italian Wine to the top

Good news for the Italian wine, which has conquests the American market. In 2009 in the United States there has been a real sales boom, a sign that Americans loves Italian wine, especially sparkling wine. In 2003 sparkling wine bottles exported overseas were about 500,000, while last year there has been a spike in exports, with over 1,600,000 bottles sold abroad.
Encouraging numbers that underscore the local wine high quality and indicate a bright future for this branch. The positive trend was also emphasized by the prestigious Newsweek, which has compared the “noble” champagne with our prosecco, highlighting its high quality and its appeal.
Concrete results, exposed in the recent Italian Wine Master, itinerary tour that has like stage Chicago and New York on behalf of the three famous Tuscan denomination like Brunello, Chianti classic and Vino nobile di Montepulciano whit the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore. Last year the Made in Italy wine has excelled in all the continents, walloping the French historical rivals. The Italian national farmers association has confirmed this positive trend. In 2008, in fact, the Italian wine exportations has reached about 3,5 billiard of euros, thanks especially to the German and Usa requests, passing in 12 month from a 7% share to an encourancing 9.6%. Favorable numbers than make a positive balance on the future.

Wine for your all special moments

From centuries the wine accompanies our meals and our most special moments.
The word "wine" comes from the Sanskrit word "vena", that means love, whose root derives the name of the goddess Venus.
So it was already popular in the Neolithic era when it was born by chance, perhaps by the accidental grape fermentation in a container. Only centuries have allowed its refining increasing innovative winemaking techniques.
Large scale wine production began about 5000 years ago, in 3000 BC and its marketing has followed its development.
From primitive to modern wine cellars, from wine bars to the latest online wine shops that have developed with the Internet expansion.
Italy Wine Selection is a wine shop that comes online in 2006, from the result of Terminiello’s brothers commitment and the passion, whose family practice in wine shop for over 100 years.
Italy Wine Selection is the natural evolution of the restaurant "Il Canonico" appendix, an Italian historical restaurant , located in the Sorrento main square, Piazza Tasso. In the late nineteenth century, when the bottled wine marketing was not as widespread as today, the “Il Canonico” ancestors gathered the best local wine production, selling it.
The idea to open an on-line wine-shop is the result of numerous customers requests from people who still need to buy the wine sipped during the meal.
Italy Wine Selection is an online wine shop that offers a wide selection of white, red, rose, dessert and rare wines of all Italy regions, from the best vineyards and producers.
So the best strictly Italian wine labels, including magnums and Jeroboam bottles.
You can make all your purchases in total safety, since Italy Wine Selection uses the GestPay payment system whit the Banca Sella credit card parameters.
In the offering wines section are posted periodically offers and discounts on the bottles in the catalog, guaranteeing high quality but low prices.
Italy Wine Selection is the best online wine shop!

The sales of Italianwineselection

A bottle of fine wine is always a welcome gift and the ideal choice to celebrate anniversaries and special moments. This year Italianwineselection, Italian wine shop dedicated to selling wines online, has decided to extend the Christmas offer for the months of January, February and March by offering its loyal customers prestigious labels at discount prices. From sparkling to champagne, from red wines to white wines finally to the magnum bottles all with a discount of 5% in addition to that already used at Christmas time. The cellar is renewed from year to year, always offering new and valuable bottles to customers. An excellent opportunity to impress with a precious gift, to organize a romantic dinner for your sweetheart or to get supplies in anticipation of the arrival of summer. You can choose the wine that best matches your taste with the guarantee of enjoying one of the best wines of Italian wine production. So take advantage of discounts ranging from 15% for champagne, red wine and Magnum and 25% for white wines. For more information click on this page>> offers Italian wines.

Oil - The 5 days of Verona

8 to 12 April Verona will host the only international exhibition "Sol" dedicated to quality product.
For the occasion, Italy participates to the event by proposing the main product present on the table of all Italians, olive oil.
Thanks to global leadership in the export of oil in our country, Sol is configured as a unique opportunity for buyers coming from all over the world. Buyers will discover the panorama Italian Olive visiting the exhibition areas proposed by many companies, traveling from north to south of the peninsula, passing through the regions leading producer of olive oil, such as Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, Campania, Lazio , Abruzzo, Tuscany, Umbria, Sardinia, Basilicata, Molise, Liguria, Marche and Veneto.
The event will include workshops and internships tasting cooking, the chefs will use a variety of products, such as olive oil, lemon oil, oranges oil, organic olive oil, olive oil dop, aromatic oils, etc. ..., for the preparation of starters and main dishes and recipes for pastry.

Label for olive oil fraud

The TAR of Lazio dismissed the appeal lodged by some organizations representing mills and olive oil marketing companies, which have to bear the bureaucratic burden for the preparation of registers for tracing the product, as established by the legislation Community legislation. According to the TAR legislation does not affect the competition between companies in the olive oil sector and ensure that the final consumer can buy the product being available all the information about its provenance.
According to “Coldiretti”, tightening up controls at national and Community level, will help to ensure food safety for consumers and to defend the Made in Italy at the table. More and more food without being paid as Italians, in Italy the value of this market amounts to 70 billion diverted.
Currently required to indicate the variety, quality and provenance is provided for fruit and vegetables, eggs, honey, fresh milk, chicken, tomato sauce and extra virgin olive oil, while the label remains anonymous for meat pig, rabbit, lamb, pasta, canned vegetables, long-life milk and cheese, with a designation of origin.

Wine lovers from generations

Italy Wine Selection is an on-line wine shop, originated from the wine passion by two brothers called Marco and Tonino Terminiello, managers of the famous restaurant "O'Canonico" in Sorrento.
Thee food passion is combined perfectly with the wine passion.
Terminiello brothers occupy personally in online wine sales.
Before to be put in market, wines are tasted by Marco, who has long sommelier experience, started when he wandered about in all Italy wineries, searching for the best wine, concluding that, ultimately, the Italian wine is best one in the world.
This is the reason because almost all the wines offered at the restaurant and from Italy Wine Selection are strictly Italian.
Tonino Terminiello, however, has occupied in marketing and public relations, e-commerce management and customer relationships, promoting tasting evenings and special events.
The online wine-shop birth was the natural restaurant evolution. Indeed, Italy Wine Selection was born in 2006, while the trade of wine sellers passed on from generation to generation, from about one hundred years, hand in hand whit the restaurant history when the good food lovers ordered the wine sipped during the meal.
Whit the new technologies explosion, to satisfy the wine demand by the “Bacchus nectar” fans, it was decided to create Italy Wine Selection, giving everyone the opportunity to taste bottles which are difficult to find in traditional supermarkets or wine shops.
From full-bodied red wines to luscious white wines, from local sparkling wines to dessert wines up to land rare wines as the Acciaroli 1998 or Chianti Riserva Ducale Oro 2003.
The purchase is fast and secure, as well as the quality of the offered wines, provided from a love long generations ...

National Award Hercules Olivario

The "Hercules Olivario" was born at the beginning of the 90s in a climate of skepticism when he was still growing olives in Italy was not a source of income for producers and aims to reward the quality of extra virgin olive oil. The objective of the National Award Hercules Olivario is precisely to enhance the quality olive oil emphasizing its nature as a distinctive feature of the Italian countryside and at the same time typical product of Italian agri-food sector. The competition will take place in Umbria 22 to 27 March 2010 and may only participate growers producing their own oil, oil and producer organizations, such as consortia, cooperatives and business networks, and finally to the subject's system of checks with certification of designation of origin on their area of origin. During the final day of the National Jury Prize finalists selected sampling oils from each region and then deliver the certificate of participation and the small temple of Hercules Olivario to the winners of the regional selections. In 2006 the Sorrentolio, that produces the best italian oil, has obtained the certificate as the final producer. The last day at the Teatro di Spoleto held a ceremony to announce the winners of the contest: the best package in terms of aesthetics and the information content of oil samples win Prize Amphora Olearia, also be awarded the first two classified in categories of light , medium and intense fruit oil.

Delight yourself whit the olive oil!

The olive oil is an healthy and genuine food that has a prominent place in the Mediterranean diet. Its colture has ancient origins; so much as Homer called it “liquid gold “for its preciousness.
It is a simple but rich in essential elements food. It was cultivated starting from the beginning of the fifth century B.C., in the east of Mediterranean area, to moving through West and through the Mediterranean basin. In the first century B.C. Plinious affirmed that the Italian olive oil was the best of the Mediterranean”.
The different olive oil typologies are distinguished on the basis of the olives pressing processes, if they are virgin or obtained from chemical and physical processes. An olive oil can be defined as “virgin” only if mechanical methods are used for its squeezing outs.
Needless to say that the final olive oil taste depends from various factors, such as olive harvest method and the fruit ripeness degree, but the most important factor is represented from the origin olive place. Mainly this last factor is the main principal way to characterize the olive oil and that has made of Sorrento and the Sorrentine Peninsula famous in all over the world.
It is really in the Surrentine Peninsula, precisely in Sant’Agnello, that the Gargiulo family, produces, whit engagement and commitment, from about one hundreds of years, extra-virgin olive oil. In the 70s Gargiulo’s family founded the Sorrentolio society. Initially it exercised only the oil mill activity, to expand later the extra-virgin olive oil packaging and commercialization. To keep walking with the times the Sorrentolio society has transformed itself in an e-commerce, able to offer you one of the most famous Sorrentine Peninsula product directly from your home whit just a click away! In addition to the traditional olive oil Sorrentolio also offers spices aromatized oil, orange or lemon aromatized oil, d.o.p. olive oil and biological oil. In short, Sorrentolio offers a range of products that can satisfied even the finest and demanding palates!Buying on line Gargiulo oil is easy, fast and convenient, moreover Gargiulo oil offers also elegant gift-boxes, to bring on the table the Sorrento’s tastes, directly from the producer to the consumer! Taste also the aromatized white or black truffles oils to delight your palate.
How can you resist to the mill flavors such as honey, vegetables in oil or syrup fruit? For all the gourmets Olio Gargiulo offers many ideas, to gift someone or to yourself! Please yourself whit Sorrento flavors!