Above: The Gran Guardia Palace in downtown Verona were the Wine Spectator Top 100 Italian Wines are presented each year during the Opera Wine preview event at Vinitaly.

It seems like yesterday that the letter arrived: we are pleased to inform you…

We couldn’t have been more thrilled to learn that Lini had been included in the 2016 Opera Wine TOP 100 Wines selected by the editors of Wine Spectator.

And as if being one of Italy top 100 wines, along with some of the greatest wine-producing estates in the country, Sting’s winery Il Palagio was also included and he even performed at the awards ceremony!

Click here for a complete list of Wine Spectator TOP 100 wines for 2016.

Image by freakydesignz’ Flickr (Creative Commons).