Forbes Italy and So Wine So Food Present The 2020 Guide of 100 Italian Excellences

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Forbes Italy and So Wine So Food Present The 2020 Guide of 100 Italian Excellences

The first edition of the 2020 Guide of 100 Italian Excellences (100 Eccellenze Italiane 2020) by So Wine So Food, an international enogastronomic magazine in Italy, in collaboration with Forbes Italy, was presented at Mediterraneo Restaurant in MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome last 27 January 2020.

The project aims to give recognition to the enogastronomic activities that maintain a high standard and quality of Italian hospitality, service and production. It is a guide of 100 hotels, restaurants, wines and products that underlines the uniqueness of the excellence of Made in Italy.

“There are many guides in Italy and probably there was no need to make another one, then with the friends of Forbes Italia,” Stefano Cocco, Executive Director of the guide and publisher of So Wine So Food said, “we said, let’s do a selection of those who every year, small or large, reflect our ideas, respect, passion, determination, sustainability, desire to do and above all love for food, hospitality and wine.”

“Forbes with the precious and professional help of So Wine So Food,” declares Alessandro Rossi, Director of the guide, “has chosen 100 of these Italian excellences, dividing them into four categories: hotels, restaurants, food products and wines. We have compiled the list with great attention choosing between those who do extraordinary, innovative, unique things, respect tradition, use local products, enhance the territory, have been able to take risks and win.”

All three photos above provided by So Wine So Food

Representing the 100 stories of the selection is the guide’s Italian Ambassador Chef Davide Oldani, Chef Patron of Michelin-starred Ristorante D’O in Milan where he created Cucina Pop, a cuisine combining tradition and innovation with quality as the foundation. As a chef who is focused on the exceptionality of raw materials, he finds success in the passionate work of artisans, growers and professionals in the gastronomic sector.

So Wine So Food has conferred 3 special awards namely: Best Communication awarded to Camparino, Best Wine Mentor awarded to Marco Reitano, and Prize for the Valorization of Wine Culture which went to the Cotarella Family.

The 2020 Guide of 100 Italian Excellences is available as a supplement to the January edition of Forbes Italy and will soon be available digitally in Forbes Italy website.

The 100 Italian Excellences are as follows:

Hotels:

Armani Hotel ° Bulgari Hotel ° Belmond Hotel Cipriani ° Hotel de Russie °
Four Seasons Firenze ° Grand Hotel Majestic Gia Baglioni ° Grand Hotel Rimini °
Grand Hotel Tremezzo ° Grand Hotel et de Milan ° Hotel Bernini Palace °
Hotel Bristol Palace ° Cristallo Resort & Spa ° Due Torri Hotel ° Excelsior Hotel Gallia ° Helvetia & Bristol ° Hotel Santa Caterina ° Lefay Resorts & Spa Lago di Garda °
Minareto Resort ° Park Hyatt Milan ° Palazzo Montemartini ° The St. Regis Rome °
Sikelia ° L’Albereta Relais & Châteaux ° Tenuta de L’Annunziata

Restaurants:

Le Calandre ° All’Oro ° Torre del Saracino ° Bros’ ° Da Vittorio ° L’Olivo – Capri Palace ° Duomo ° Ceresio 7 ° La Gallina ° Il Convivio Troiano ° Dry Milano ° Don Alfonso 1890 ° Identità Milano ° Glam ° Lido 84 ° IT ° Casadonna Reale ° Enrico Bartolini ° Pescaria ° Peppe Zullo ° Ristorante 1978 ° Enoteca Pinchiorri ° Uliassi ° Dal Pescatore

Wines:

Marchesi Antinori ° Arpepe ° Bellavista ° Bisol ° Quarciabella °
Consorzio Tutela del Gavi ° Dievole ° Feudi San Gregorio ° Ornellaia ° Pasqua °
Pio Cesare ° Podere Forte ° San Polo ° Tinazzi ° Ruffino ° Tasca d’Almerita ° Tenuta Mara ° Tenuta San Giaime ° Tenute Piccini

Products:

Adi Apicultura ° Amedei ° Bontasana ° Agroittica Lombarda ° Carpano °
Birrificio della Granda ° Baladin ° Castagner ° Cioccolatitaliani ° Acqua Filette °
Fiore 1827 ° Frantoio Muraglia ° I Love Ostrica ° Malandrone 1477 ° Mazzetti d’Altavilla ° Mitilla ° Pank Bulangeria ° Savini Tartufi ° Cedrata Tassoni ° Salumificio Valverde ° Zafferano 3 Cuochi ° Pastificio Felicetti ° Iginio Massari ° Risi Preziosi °
Riserva San Massimo ° Orbetello Acquacoltura ° Vergani ° Manicardi °
Le Piantagioni del Caffè ° Pastificio Cavalieri ° 1punto61 ° Agrimontana °
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