MONTALCINO (SIENA) - Italy has its first Master of Wine: Gabriele Gorelli, born in 1984, born and raised in Montalcino (Siena), brand builder and all-round connoisseur of the Italian wine chain and beyond.
Finally, Italian wine has its ambassador in the most influential wine association in the world, considered a sort of UN in the sector.
The English association The Institute of Masters of Wine, explains a note, the most authoritative and ancient organization dedicated to the knowledge and trade of wine, thus welcomes among its ranks the first Italian representative ever. With the entry of Gorelli, the Masters of Wine in the world become 418. "The role of the Masters of Wine, historically, is certainly not to bend the production of wine to the prevailing taste - comments Gabriele Gorelli, who among other things has curated the Italian section of Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia 2020 -. On the contrary, it is to make excellence accessible and understandable to all, enhancing them and creating added value along the entire supply chain. It is essential that a complex country like Italy, from a point of ampelographic, historical, stylistic view, can count on an ambassador who represents it in the international arena ".
