Just like Vinitaly 2020, Vinitaly 2021 will also not be there. After a first attempt, made in November of last year, to save the 2021 edition by fixing it from 20 to 23 June, the top management of Veronafiere have definitively acknowledged that the national and international security conditions for this event cannot exist. , at least before the summer. And so, to avoid other progressive date shifts, yesterday they established that the 54th edition will be held directly in 2022, in April as usual. More precisely, from 10 to 13.
“It is a choice of responsibility – Maurizio Danese, president of Veronafiere Spa had to admit reluctantly – Vinitaly will continue to work with all the protagonists, including institutional players in the sector, such as the Ministry of Agriculture and the ICE, to support competitiveness. of made in Italy wine in countries already projected to recovery, the USA, China and Russia first of all ». The Verona fair instead confirms for June 2021, from 19 to 20, the collateral event OperaWine, with the presence of the American magazine Wine Spectator, while from 16 to 18 October an exceptional promotional event dedicated to B2b entitled “Vinitaly-edition special”.
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The decision to move Vinitaly was shared with the organizations and associations of the wine and agricultural sector. For the president of Assoenologi, Riccardo Cotarella, “the initiative taken by Veronafiere to postpone the 54th edition of Vinitaly to 2022 goes in the direction suggested by the wine supply chain”. “The displacement of Vinitaly – said the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini – is a necessary act to allow the participation of foreign operators and support the success of the most exported made in Italy agri-food product in the world where, despite the pandemic, wine it has a turnover of 6.3 billion euros in 2020 ». While the president of Confagricoltura, Massimiliano Giansanti, expressed his support “for Veronafiere and the entire national agri-food trade fair sector: we are convinced that it is necessary to support the validity of the Italian system and avoid dangerous openings to other international realities”.
«We have difficulty planning trips and contacts – finally admits Sandro Boscaini, president of Federvini – and we would have had difficulty in welcoming guests to the stands, but the second postponement widens the void that Vinitaly leaves. We need international contacts, we need to present our products and keep in touch with the huge number of national and international operators who flocked to Verona ».