Franco Ziliani

Franco Ziliani (born 1956 in Milan) is an Italian blogger and wine critic, with a specialty in Italian wines since 1985. He has contributed to several periodicals including "Decanter", "A Tavola", "Barolo & Co." and "Merum", "Il Corriere Vinicolo", "De Vinis", "The World of Fine Wine", as well as a column for "Harpers Magazine" with Nicolas Belfrage MW with whom he has also contributed to Tom Stevenson's annual "Wine Report".
Ziliani and Jeremy Parzen launched VinoWire.com in March 2008, to provide an English language news service on the subject of Italian wine. Ziliani has since been credited by "La Repubblica" with first breaking the 2008 Brunello scandal.
Ziliani has often criticised Angelo Gaja and his style of winemaking, and frequently and controversially refers to James Suckling as "Giacomino Suckling" and his employer publication "Wine Spectator" as "Wine Speculator".
A right-winger, Ziliani has been harshly criticized after he publicly declared he won't ever again review Giovanna Maccario's wines as a punishment for her pro-immigration stance. 