Keep Chianti: the tariff threat leaves the Italian bottles on the ground
Everything he took was a threat on the social media All-Caps of President Trump to impose a 200 % rate on European wine for shipments by many Brunellos, Chiantis and Principal to stop.In Tuscany, the most famous wine region in Italy, thousands of bottles intended for American tables are blocked in the Cole of the cellars or in the warehouses of Livorno, the port city from which they had to start."Everything is stopped," said Tiziana Mazzetti, manager of the sales and marketing of the old cellar, a cellar in the Tuscan city of Montepulciano, while it was between boxes of bottles of wine that they should have left this month for the United States. "The damage is already here."So far, the threat of Mr. Trump remains precisely this. But it was enough for the nervous American importers to pause...