Antonio D’Orrico Journalist and literary critic. Since 1994 he has written for “Sette”, the magazine of “Corriere della Sera”, of which he became Editor-in-Chief two years later; in its pages he has a fixed space, defined as “the most disputed, questionable, indisputable and incontrovertible Italian literary column”. As an author, on the other hand, he has published the essay “Cambiare vita”, has edited the sporting anthology “Momenti di gloria” and written the novel “Come vendere un milione di copie e vivere felici”.

Tito Vagni teaches Ethics of Communication in Gastronomy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and Television Theory at the University of Tuscia. He has taught and researched at several university sites: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Buenos Aires (2021), EHESS, Paris (2019), University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo (2018), IULM University (2016-2020), University of Macerata (2015-2018), São Paulo (2014), CEAQ-Sorbonne, Paris (2011-2012). His main research interests include: the history, theory and language of media; figures and myths of the contemporary imaginary; and the relationship between media and food and wine. He has collaborated for years with L’Espresso’s Guida ai Ristoranti d’Italia, and has written for Il Resto del Carlino and Mark Up. He has published numerous essays and articles that have appeared in Italian and international scholarly journals. Among his publications Communication as Consumption [with Nello Barile] (Bevivino Editore 2012); Abitare la TV. Theories, Imaginaries, Reality Shows (Franco Angeli 2017); L’influenza digitale. Studies, theories and research [with Maria Angela Polesana] (Guerini and Associates 2021).

Attilio Scienza
One of the world’s major experts on Viticulture, he has lectured at the Public University in Milan and has been Director of the Institute of Agriculture at San Michele all’Adige. He was awarded the AEI Prize for research in 1991, the International Morsiani Prize in 2006, the OIV-Paris Viticulture Prize for the best scientific book on viticultural topics and the culture of the vine in 2003, 2008,2011, 2012 and 2017. He is the author of 380 scientific publications and 32 printed books dealing with technical and cultural subjects.

Luciano Ferraro
Deputy Editor of “Corriere della Sera”, from Veronelli he learned that behind every vigneron there is a story to be told. He began writing about wine in 1984, publishing a book about wine shops in the Veneto. For the “Corriere della Sera” he also edits a guide to the best vignaioli and the best wines of Italy. Among the many accolades he has received, we mention the Award for the Best Journalist in Italy from the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia, and the Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino.

Daniele Cernilli
A world-famous journalist and wine critic, he is in charge of Doctor Wine as well the editor/ curator of the Essential Guide to Italian Wines by Doctor Wine, which he created in 2014. He was one of the co-founders of Gambero Rosso in 1986, editor of its “Italian Wines” guide for 24 editions and editor of “Gambero Rosso” magazine. A lecturer and teacher of tasting and sensory analysis, since 2012 he has been an official taster at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA).

Roberto Fiori
Born in Alba (Cuneo), he graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Turin. He works for the “La Stampa” daily newspaper, where he deals with fine and food whenever the news allows him to do so. He teaches Theory and Techniques of Journalistic Language at the Cattolica University in Milan.

Luigi Moio
Full Professor of Oenology at the Federico II University in Naples, for more than thirty years he has dealt with the sensory, biochemical and technological aspects of wine and its aromas. He is in charge of the Degree Course in Viticulture and Oenology and of the Master’s Degree Course in Oenological Science at the University of Naples. In November 2016 he published the book “Il Respiro del Vino” with Mondadori: a scientific work on the scents of wine which, a year after it was first released, reached its seventh edition.

Alessandro Torcoli
Editor and publisher of the historic wine magazine “Civiltà del Bere”, he is also the organiser of top-level events, such as VinoVip and Simply the Best. In 2009 he won the “Best Young Italian Wine Journalist” award, conferred by the Grandi Cru d’Italia association. In 2023 he was elected to the Board of the Accademia della Vite e del Vino. In October 2016 his first book, Vinology (Rizzoli), was published and in 2020 he won the Bancarella Cucina prize with his book “In vino veritas” (Longanesi).

Mike Veseth
Professor emeritus of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. An authority on the global wine market, he is Editor of the blog “The Wine Economist” and the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestseller Wine Wars (2011) and Extreme Wine (2013). He has also taught at the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague and at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Italy.

Susan H. Gordon
A world-famous communicator and wine expert, she was born in Rome and brought up in New York. She earned her doctoral degree from The University of the Arts with a language-focused book on the two Prosecco DOCG areas, Conegliano Valdobbiadene and Asolo. She has been the Eastern States contributor for “Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book” since the 2020 edition. She is a VIA Italian Wine Ambassador, with WSET Level 3 certification, current Level 4 studies, and an MFA from the New School.

Sandro Boscaini
An extremely significant personality in the world of Italian wine, he is President of Masi Agricola S.p.a., one of the creators of what is now Vinitaly, a founder member of the Istituto dei Vini Italiani di Qualità Grandi Marchi and of the Famiglie Storiche dell’Amarone. He has held various positions in important institutions and associations in the world of wine and has received numerous accolades at both national and international levels. In 2016 he was awarded the honour of Cavaliere del Lavoro della Repubblica Italiana.

Head of Institutional Affairs at Pirelli, Senior Advisor on Culture and director of the Fondazione Pirelli. He is Vice-President of Assolombarda. He was a director of the Apcom press agency and economics columnist for La7. He was editorial director of the “Il Sole 24 Ore” group and Deputy Editor of that newspaper. He has worked for numerous national publications. He has lectured at the Bocconi University and still teaches at the Cattolica University in Milan.

Slawka Scarso
A consultant in communication on wine, food and the arts and lecturer in wine marketing at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (Master in Italian Wines and World Markets), the University of Salerno, the Istituto Agrario at San Michele all’Adige and the IUSVE in Venice. In 2014 she published “Marketing del vino, Dalle etichette ai social network” (LSWR), the complete guide to promoting wine and wine and food tourism, which had a second edition in 2017. She also writes fiction.

Giorgio dell’Orefice
Deputy Senior Editor of Il Sole 24 Ore – Radiocor, he graduated in Economics from the Federico II University in Naples with a thesis on the history of post-war economic journalism in Italy. He dealt with the subjects of agriculture and the food business for Agrisole, for the farming page of “Il Sole 24 Ore”, and for the Reports section of “Il Sole 24 Ore”. Within the agri-food industry, he has paid particular attention to the sectors of wine, olive oil, D.O.P and I.G.P quality food products, and fishing.

Alberto Grandi
A food historian, he is an associate Professor at the University of Parma. He teaches Business History, the History of European Integration, and has lectured on Economic History and the History of Food. He is the author of some forty papers and monographs in Italy and abroad, including “Denominazione di origine inventata”, published by Mondadori.

Gad Lerner
Born in Beirut to a Jewish family, he has been a political correspondent for the weekly “L’Espresso” since 1983. From 1993 to 1996 deputy editor and, until 1998, correspondent for La Stampa. In 2001 he moved to the television station La 7, where he hosted until 2012 the program L’infedele and in 2013 Zeta. Since 2020 he has been one of the signatures of Il Fatto Quotidiano.
Of 2014 is the in-depth program Fischia il vento, aired on laeffe and Repubblica.it, of 2016 Islam, Italy, of 2017 are Operai and Rich and Poor, of 2018 La difesa della razza and of 2019 L’approdo on RAI Tre.
He has published a number of essays, among which it is necessary to mention Workers (1987); Crusades. The Millennium of Hate (2000); You are a Bastard. Against Identity Abuse (2005); Sparks. A Story of Wandering Souls (2009); Concetta. A working-class story (2017); We, Partisans. A Memoir of the Italian Resistance (2020); The Unfaithful. A history of rebels and masters (Feltrinelli, 2020); with L. Gnocchi he edited the volumes Noi partigiani. Memoriale della Resistenza italiana (2020) and Noi ragazzi della libertà. I partigiani raccontano (Feltrinellim 2021). His latest book is entitled Giornalisti da marciapiede (EGA-Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2022).