Draft:Gabriele Gorelli MW

Gabriele Gorelli is the first Italian Master of Wine.

He was born in 1984 in Montalcino, a wine-producing town in Tuscany where he still resides. In 2021, Gorelli qualified as one of 418 Masters of Wine in the world at that time. His final research paper for the Institute of Masters of Wine focused on Quercetin precipitation in Brunello di Montalcino and the organic fining methods to prevent this phenomenon occurring in the bottle.

In 2021 he was listed as one of the 40 under 40 Wine Industry Leaders for Fortune Italia.

He is Golden Vines Ambassador for Italy. This annual event raises funds in the name of fellow Master of Wine, Gerard Basset, to support diversity and inclusion scholarships for the wine industry. Gorelli covers numerous institutional roles in the Italian wine world  and regularly judges competitions, conducts masterclasses  and writes on the subject of Italian wine.