Oenologists between past and future: the Marco Accordini prize goes to Francesca Violardo (University of Trento).

If the quality of Italian wine, according to many, has never been so high, the credit also goes to the winemakers. And, in a bridge that connected past and future, the figure of the oenologist was celebrated, and it could not have been otherwise, at the Assoenologi Congress, in recent days, in Cagliari: on the one hand, with the delivery of a commemorative plaque in memory of Giacomo Tachis, considered the greatest Italian oenologist of all time, to whom we owe the figure of the modern oenologist, and signature of many legendary wines such as the Sassicaia of Tenuta San Guido, the Turriga of Argiolas, the San Leonardo of Tenuta San Leonardo, the Terre Brune of Cantina di Santadi, the Tignanello of Antinori, the Saffredi of Le Pupille, the Mille e una night of Donnafugata, the Pelago of Umani Ronchi and beyond, received by her daughter, Ilaria Tachis, and, on the other, the Marco Accordini Degree Prize, in memory of the young winemaker who died prematurely two years ago, at just 26 years old, went to Francesca Violardo, of the University of Trento, for a work on the “Isotopic characterization of chitosan”.