Gambero Rosso marks 40 years with new guides in Rome
The wine and restaurant publisher gathers in the capital on 25-26 October for a 500-winery tasting and the reveal of its 2027 Italian guides.
Gambero Rosso turns 40 this year, and marks it on 25-26 October at La Nuvola in Rome, where it unveils its Vini d'Italia, Ristoranti d'Italia and Pizzerie d'Italia guides for 2027.
The event runs at the Auditorium Roma Convention Center in the EUR district. Sunday 25 October, from 4pm to 8pm, holds what organisers bill as the largest wine tasting of its kind in Italy: over 500 wineries that earned Tre Bicchieri, the guide's top rating, in the 2027 edition, pouring alongside a separate "Vini Rari" section of rare labels made in under 3,000 bottles. No hours have been published yet for the Monday programme, and organisers note the schedule may still change.
For the host city's own tables, see our list of the best restaurants in Rome.
Over 500 wineries pouring Tre Bicchieri wines in one room is the kind of scale only an anniversary justifies.
What gets unveiled
Four guides launch across the weekend: Vini d'Italia 2027 for wine, Ristoranti d'Italia 2027 and Pizzerie d'Italia 2027 for restaurants and pizzerias, and Top Italian Food. A Tre Forchette 2027 gala dinner closes out the restaurant guide's top category. None of the actual winners — which wineries keep or lose Tre Bicchieri, which restaurants make Tre Forchette — has been confirmed ahead of the reveal.
AMUSE has already covered two of the guide's regional previews this year: Veneto's Prosecco hills gaining ground while Amarone holds firm, and Sicily's whites now outnumbering its reds in the new edition. The Rome event folds those regional results into the full national picture.
Forty years and a new shareholder
The anniversary lands a year after Bologna's trade-fair operator, BolognaFiere, bought a stake in Gambero Rosso for €5.7m, a sign of how much the guide business itself has become a commercial property rather than just an annual ranking exercise. Four decades on, Gambero Rosso remains one of the two or three guides an Italian wine producer or restaurant genuinely worries about. The Rome weekend is where this year's worrying gets resolved: producers either keep their glasses or their chairs, and pizzerias find out whether a year of queues translated into a rating. For a publisher that began in 1986 as a glossy restaurant insert, forty years and a trade-fair shareholder is a fair measure of how commercial the business of Italian food criticism has become.
