No Verona catwalk for the wineries selected for OperaWine 2026. This year, together with the wine2wine business forum event that moves to Chicago for Vinitaly.USA 2025, the Wine Spectator announcement on the wines that will become part of the Made in Italy wine elite will also stop in the Windy City. On October 5 and 6, under the skyscrapers, therefore, and not in the shadow of the Arena, we will discover which are the labels that will make up the exclusive event that will act as a prelude, as usual, to Vinitaly 2026 in Verona.
Wine Spectator at Vinitaly.USA to announce the wineries selected for OperaWine 2026
Wine Spectator will participate in the second edition of Vinitaly.USA, scheduled at Chicago’s Navy Pier on October 5 and 6, to announce the wineries selected for OperaWine 2026. This is another new feature of the Italian event on American soil, which adds to those already announced, starting with the arrival of wine2wine business forum in the Windy City.
Wine Spectator is the historic “stars and stripes” magazine dedicated to the world of wine and offers expert reviews of over 10,000 labels every year. Since 2012, with Veronafiere – Vinitaly, the magazine has organized OperaWine.
“With the presence in Chicago of Wine Spectator for the announcement of the wineries that will participate in Operawine 2026, the new stage of the international growth path of Italian wine signed Veronafiere – Vinitaly is increasingly taking shape,” explains Federico Bricolo, President of Veronafiere. “Vinitaly.USA represents a natural extension of our mission: to be alongside Italian companies in the main global scenarios, offering them concrete business opportunities, visibility and direct contact with the top players in the wine sector and also presents itself as a platform for dialogue and discussion with institutions, trade associations and protection consortia, for coordinated and structured action in support of the Italian wine system in the United States.”
