The five wines that earned unanimous recognition are San Leonardo 2003 from the Tenuta San Leonardo in the Trentino region, Montevetrano 2005 by Montevetrano in Campania, Terra di Lavoro 2005 by Galardi, Sassicaia 2004 from the Tenuta San Guido di Bolgheri in Tuscany, and Moscato Giallo Passito "Serenade" 2004 from the Cantina di Caldaro. These are the only wines that received top scores in all of the wine guides published in Italy for 2008: the “Tre Bicchieri” (“Three Glasses”) recognition in the ‘Vini d’Italia’ guide by Gambero Rosso-Slow Food, the “Cinque Bottiglie” (“Five Bottles”) from the Espresso guide, “Tre Stelle” (“Three Stars”) from the ‘I Vini di Veronelli’ guide, “Cinque Grappoli” (“Five Grape Clusters”) from Duemilavini by Ais-Bibenda, and the maximum point score from the ‘Annuario dei migliori vini italiani’ by Luca Maroni.

The third year of this “cross examination” conducted by WineNews has revealed a slight improvement compared to the results of the 2007 guides, which gave unanimous recognition to only two wines (Galatrona 2004 by Fattoria di Petrolo and Montevetrano 2004). In 2006, however, eight wines were actually recognized: Gaja, Sorì San Lorenzo 2001; Casanova di Neri, Brunello Cerretalto 1999; Masciarelli, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Villa Gemma 2001; Oasi degli Angeli, Kurni 2003; Galardi, Terra di Lavoro 2003, Montevetrano, Montevetrano 2003; Sandrone, Barolo Cannubi Boschis 2001; Foradori, Granato 2003. “But five wines are still a paltry amount” – explained WineNews director, Alessandro Regoli – “given that, on average, 15,000 wines are tasted by the guides, and this is the equivalent of 0.03%.The wines that are completely convincing are not increasing in a decisive manner among the results of the guides that, in general, can be considered to have the closest criteria for rating wines (Gambero Rosso-Slow Food, Veronelli, Ais-Bibenda, L'Espresso)".

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