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Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles in Italy's Largest-Ever Wine Heist
The Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona was emptied of a haul valued at about €5 million, the company said
A gang broke into the Marchesi Antinori winery in Tuscany and loaded two trucks with 30,000 bottles worth about €5 million, the company said.
Concetta Vassallo · NATIONAL
Piedmont 'Forever Chemicals' Case Heads to Trial as Activists Seek Reckoning
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster over PFAS contamination in the region, The Local Italy reports.
After years of protests, two former directors of a Piedmont plant are to stand trial next month for involuntary environmental disaster, according to The Local Italy.
Lorenzo Ferraris · NATIONAL
Rare Twin Waterspouts Strike Western Sicily, Damaging Homes and a School
Two funnels formed off Marsala and came ashore near Trapani, hitting Petrosino, in an event forecasters call unusual for October
A rare pair of waterspouts swept ashore in western Sicily on Friday, damaging homes, vehicles and a school, according to Euronews.
Concetta Vassallo · REGIONAL
Greenaway's Tuscan-Shot Drama Stuck in Post-Production Dispute
The British director's assisted-dying film, shot in and around Lucca, remains unreleased three years on as a rights battle continues
Peter Greenaway's Lucca Mortis, starring Dustin Hoffman, is still in dispute with producers over which version to release, the Guardian reports.
Tommaso Veronese · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles from Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
Foreign wires call it Italy's largest wine theft; the company says the haul was staged for export
A gang loaded two trucks with roughly €5m of wine from the Marchesi Antinori estate near Cortona, according to international reports.
Camille Bréan
Tuscan Wine Heist Puts €5m Question to Italy's Cellars
Foreign wires report 30,000 bottles taken from Marchesi Antinori near Cortona; Trentino growers read the security lesson
International coverage of Italy's largest wine theft raises the same question for Trentino's cooperative cellars: how much stock sits behind how little security.
Klara Hofer
Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles from Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
Foreign wires call it Italy's largest wine theft; the Veneto's export districts read it as a warning about the value now stored in Italian cellars
A gang loaded two trucks with 30,000 bottles worth about €5m from the Marchesi Antinori winery near Cortona, according to international reports.
Tommaso Veronese
Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles From Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
Foreign wires call it Italy's largest wine theft; for Trieste the question is where the bottles surface
A gang loaded two trucks with wine worth about €5m from the Marchesi Antinori estate near Cortona, according to international reports.
Sergio Madrussan
Piedmont 'Forever Chemicals' Case Goes to Trial as Activists Press
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster; the foreign coverage is thin on detail
Campaigners hope a trial opening next month in Piedmont will force action on PFAS contamination around an industrial plant.
Sergio Madrussan
Strikes and the Ligurian Gateway: What the Foreign Press Counts
The Local Italy examines how much Italian strikes actually disrupt travel, a question that lands hardest on Genoa's port and rail corridors.
Foreign coverage questions whether Italian strike announcements disrupt travel as much as feared, with the answer mattering most at Italy's busiest freight gateway.
Marina Doria
A Five-Million-Euro Wine Heist, and the Freight Question Behind It
Thieves took 30,000 bottles from the Marchesi Antinori cellars in Tuscany as the consignment was being prepared for export.
The largest wine theft of its kind in Italy removes a consignment bound for export, raising questions the foreign press has only begun to ask about how it moved.
Marina Doria
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, and the Cellars That Guard the Plain
Foreign wires call the Antinori theft Italy's biggest of its kind; in Emilia-Romagna the question is how the trade protects its own
Thieves took 30,000 bottles from the Marchesi Antinori winery near Cortona, the foreign wires report, in what is believed to be Italy's largest wine theft.
Giulia Benati
A 'Forever Chemicals' Trial in Piedmont, and the Water the Plain Drinks
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster; campaigners hope the case sets a European precedent
Two former directors of a plant in Piedmont will stand trial next month for involuntary environmental disaster, as campaigners hope the case curbs 'forever chemicals'.
Giulia Benati
Thirty Thousand Bottles Gone: A Tuscany Heist the World Wrote Down
Thieves emptied a Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona of wine worth about €5m, in what foreign coverage calls Italy's largest theft of its kind
The world's wires agree on the bottles and the trucks; they disagree on how many thieves it took to move a vintage.
Costanza Bardi
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, and the Cellars That Cannot Be Guarded
Thieves took 30,000 bottles from Marchesi Antinori near Cortona. In Umbria, small producers read the news as a warning about a trade built on trust.
One of the largest wine thefts ever recorded in Italy has put the security of the country's cellars under scrutiny, from Tuscany to the inland hills.
Niccolò Mariani
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, and What Marche Cellars Read Into It
Foreign wires report 30,000 bottles taken from Marchesi Antinori near Cortona; smaller Adriatic producers weigh what such a loss would mean
Thieves loaded tens of thousands of bottles from a Tuscan winery cellar, in what foreign coverage calls one of Italy's largest thefts of its kind.
Elena Marcheggiani
A 'Forever Chemicals' Trial in Piedmont, and the Water Question It Raises
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster; foreign coverage follows years of local protest
Two former directors of a Piedmont plant will stand trial next month over alleged 'forever chemicals' contamination, after years of campaigner pressure.
Elena Marcheggiani
Thirty Thousand Bottles Gone, and the World Counts the Loss
Foreign wires call the Antinori cellar raid Italy's largest wine theft; Rome's trade bodies read it as an organised-crime signal
A gang loaded two trucks with 30,000 bottles from the Marchesi Antinori estate near Cortona, in what foreign coverage calls Italy's biggest wine heist.
Davide Ruspoli
Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles From Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
Foreign wires call the Cortona raid one of the largest wine thefts recorded in Italy; the company says two trucks were used
A gang loaded tens of thousands of bottles from the Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona, in a heist the international press ranks among Italy's largest.
Marco Di Sante
A Sardinian Village Joins the Longevity Map, Read From the Financial North
Bolotana's centenarian study reaches the international press — and the demographic debate Italy's richest region follows closely.
A Guardian-reported study finds that in the Sardinian village of Bolotana, 13 percent of women who reach 70 live on to a century.
Beatrice Comolli
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, and What It Says About the Cellar Trade
Thieves took 30,000 bottles from Marchesi Antinori near Cortona. Campania's own cellars are watching.
The largest wine theft of its kind in Italy emptied a Tuscan cellar by truck. The same logistics that move fine wine abroad move it for thieves.
Rosaria Esposito
Naples on Storm Alert as the Wire Watches the South's Weather
A roundup of the latest news from Italy flags heavy-storm warnings for Naples, on the same day Sicily counts the cost of waterspouts.
Naples was placed on alert for heavy storms as western Sicily began clearing up after rare waterspouts damaged homes, cars and a school.
Rosaria Esposito
Waterspouts Strike Western Sicily, and the Adriatic Takes Note
A rare pair of funnels came ashore near Marsala and Trapani, damaging homes, cars and a school, Euronews reports
Two waterspouts swept ashore in western Sicily on Friday, wrecking homes and a school, according to Euronews.
Francesca Lazzari
After the Tuscan wine heist, the south's cellars count the cost
Basilicata's small producers cannot insure a €5m loss — and the Antinori theft shows how exposed Italy's wine economy is
The theft of 30,000 bottles from Marchesi Antinori is the largest of its kind in Italy, and it lands hardest on regions whose cellars are small, scattered and lightly protected.
Pietro Lasorsa
Waterspouts strike western Sicily as the south braces for a harder autumn
A rare double funnel off Marsala damaged homes and a school — the kind of event the foreign press now covers as routine Mediterranean weather
Two waterspouts came ashore near Marsala and Trapani on Friday, damaging buildings and vehicles, in an event Euronews called rare for the region.
Pietro Lasorsa
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, Read from the Island's Cellars
Foreign wires report 30,000 bottles taken from Marchesi Antinori near Cortona; Sardinian growers see a different kind of risk
The Guardian and the BBC report one of Italy's largest wine thefts, a haul of 30,000 bottles from a Tuscan estate.
Gavino Sanna
Waterspouts Strike Western Sicily, and the Islands Read the Same Sky
Euronews reports a rare double funnel off Marsala damaging homes and a school in Petrosino
Two waterspouts came ashore near Marsala and Trapani on Friday, damaging buildings in the town of Petrosino, Euronews reports.
Gavino Sanna
Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles From Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
A gang loaded two trucks at the Marchesi Antinori estate near Cortona in what foreign outlets call Italy's largest wine theft
At least seven thieves broke into the cellars of Marchesi Antinori near Cortona and made off with 30,000 bottles worth about €5m, the company said.
Adriana Sole
Rare Twin Waterspouts Come Ashore in Western Sicily
Two funnels formed off Marsala and moved inland toward Trapani, damaging homes, vehicles and a school in Petrosino
A rare pair of waterspouts swept ashore in western Sicily on Friday, wrecking homes and a school as they moved from the coast toward Trapani.
Adriana Sole
Wolff Rejects Bias Claims as Russell Leads Singapore Practice
Mercedes principal tells critics to watch cartoons, not Formula 1, after questions over how he manages Russell and Antonelli
George Russell set the pace in Singapore practice while his team principal dismissed accusations of favouring Kimi Antonelli.
Tobia Marenghi
A Guardian Photo Essay Turns Its Lens on Naples, and on the Femminielli
Roman Manfredi's intimate portraits of Neapolitans living outside binary gender expectations reach an international readership
The Guardian has published a photographic series on Naples' femminielli, a long-documented figure of the city's popular culture, seen through one photographer's eye.
Eleonora Vanzetti
Where Did Television's Real Villains Go? The Guardian Asks, and Points at Italy
A culture essay on the disappearance of unrepentant screen evil takes its example from a new adaptation of East of Eden
The Guardian argues that sympathetic backstories have made screen villains dull, and reaches for a literary tradition Italy has long claimed as its own.
Eleonora Vanzetti
A Tuscan Cellar Emptied, and Puglia's Wine Trade Counts the Risk
Foreign wires call the theft of 30,000 bottles from Marchesi Antinori Italy's largest wine heist, a reminder of how exposed the country's cellars are
Thieves took 30,000 bottles worth about €5m from a Tuscan winery, the biggest heist of its kind in Italy, foreign wires report.
Francesca Lazzari
A Tuscan Cellar Emptied Overnight, and the South Counts Its Own Bottles
Foreign wires report the largest wine theft in Italian memory at Marchesi Antinori, as smaller southern producers weigh what such a loss would mean
Thieves took 30,000 bottles worth about five million euros from a Tuscan winery, according to international coverage, in a heist the foreign press calls the biggest of its kind in Italy.
Antonio Petrella
A 'Forever Chemicals' Trial in Piedmont, and What Inland Waterways Share
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster. The case turns on how far contamination travels downstream.
After years of local protest, a northern Italian plant's former directors will stand trial over PFAS contamination, a case the foreign press has followed closely.
Niccolò Mariani
A Piedmont Chemical Trial Opens, and the Question of Who Tests the Water
Two former plant directors face charges of involuntary environmental disaster, as foreign coverage follows a campaign that began far from Rome
Two former directors of a Piedmont plant will stand trial next month over 'forever chemicals', according to The Local Italy, in a case that turns on who monitors what reaches the water.
Antonio Petrella
A €5m Wine Heist in Tuscany, and the Insurance Arithmetic Behind It
The Marchesi Antinori theft is the largest of its kind in Italy, and it lands in a market where fine wine trades like a financial asset.
Thieves took 30,000 bottles worth about €5m from the Marchesi Antinori cellar near Cortona, in what the foreign press calls Italy's biggest wine heist.
Beatrice Comolli
Opinion
Sicily's Waterspouts and the Weather That No Longer Waits
A rare pair of waterspouts off Marsala wrecked homes and a school — a reminder that the Mediterranean Italy the world photographs is also the Italy most exposed to a changing climate.
Editorial Board
The Vote and the Vineyard: Two Italies in One Week
In a single week the foreign press reported both a contested electoral reform and a record wine theft — two faces of a country the world prefers to admire rather than understand.
Editorial Board