For the first time an Italian wine company is crowned as “Innovator of the Year”: it happened the other evening at Easter Wines for the twenty-fourths Wine Enthusiast’s Annual Wine Star Awards: Congratulations! Riccardo and Alessandro Pasqua received the prestigious recognition during the ceremony held at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, together with other leaders of the global wine industry.
Pasqua Vini for “Innovator of the Year”
Pasqua Vini, the Veronese winery, standard bearer of Amarone della Valpolicella and Venetian wines in the world, wins as “Innovator of the year” with the following motivation: «Despite having been founded in 1925, Pasqua Vini continues to look to the future as ‘House of the Unconventional’. Under the leadership of the third generation of the family, represented by the CEO Riccardo Pasqua and President Easter USA Alessandro Pasquathe winery has launched a series of new wines, including the line Never say neverwhich includes a Cabernet Sauvignon and an Oseleta blend.”
For the company, this is the second nomination among the magazine’s awards, after last year it was included in the five finalists in the “European Winery of the Year” category. On that occasion Wine Enthusiast defined it as “an international research laboratory”.
In the motivation supporting the nomination, Wine Enthusiast he continued as follows: «the company can count on a team of people of nine different nationalities, coming from five continents, who compare and dialogue to produce the best possible wine. The company continues to push itself further in research into winemaking style and techniques and this has helped it to control strategic markets such as the United States and Asia.”
Innovation and research are a distinctive and recurring trait of Pasqua’s culture, vision and style which permeates daily action from the vineyard to the cellar.
The awards ceremony in Miami
Last February 5th the 24th Annual Wine Star Awards at the Eden Roc Hotel in
Miami, where to collect the prestigious award “Innovator of the Year“there were Riccardo and Alessandro Pasquarespectively CEO of Pasqua Vini and President of Pasqua USA, accompanied by a group of guests from Italy and the United States.
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