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Brunello di Montalcino is the Italian red most present in the wine lists of US restaurants. This was revealed by the Top 150 Italian wines in American Restaurants, the special ranking created by wine2wine of Vinitaly in collaboration with Somm.ai, the largest American database in the world of lists of wines and spirits sold on premise, which analyzed the positioning of the main 150 tricolor wines on the menus of stars and stripes restaurants.

USA, first market
According to what the Brunello di Montalcino wine consortium observes, there are 17 cellars of the Brunello di Montalcino wine consortium that have been included in the ranking of the best wines offered in American restaurants, for a total of 12,228 references on the list. The prices of these wines are mostly in triple figures: in fact, they range from a maximum of 1,213 dollars to a minimum of 90 dollars per bottle. The United States represents the first foreign market for the Tuscan denomination with a share of approximately 30% of sales across the border and a trend growth in value at the end of 2022 of 29% (source: Price Observatory Consorzio del vino Brunello di Montalcino).

The companies in the 'Top 150 Italian wines in American restaurants'
Banfi Castle
Tenuta Greppo (Biondi Santi)
Il Poggione (Franceschi property)
Caparzo estate
Argiano
Altesino
Col d'Orcia estate
Pian Delle Vigne (Antinori)
Valdicava
Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja)
Casanova by Neri
Ciacci Piccolomini of Aragon
Castelgiocondo (Marchesi de' Frescobaldi)
Silvio Nardi estates
Castiglione del Bosco
Canalicchio di Sopra
Camigliano