Weinwirtschaft’s voice from Italy, Veronika Crecelius, was born in Düsseldorf. After graduation in both Media and Communication and Romance Languages and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 she began her journalistic career as an editor for the Hamburg-based magazine Der Feinschmecker.

In the mid-1990s Crecelius decided to expand her horizon by accepting the position as writer-at-large for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, a role that also took her to London, where she interviewed Deep Purple’s organist Jon Lord. Around the same time she became increasingly involved in the wine world, and began travelling to and reporting on international wine regions and wine personalities for leading travel and food & beverage magazines in the DACH countries.

In the early 2000s Crecelius shifted her focus to Italy, fascinated not only by the country’s outstanding wine culture, but also by its people and way of life. Thanks to her in-depth expertise of the Italian wine sector, only matched by her perseverance and candour in researching and reporting especially on the, at times, arcane and complex economic and social aspects of the Italian wine world, both wine producers and wine associations began to ask her to conduct masterclasses and seminars throughout the peninsula. In early 2009 she was recruited as a correspondent for Meininger‘s Weinwirtschaft, Germany’s authoritative drinks trade periodical. Furthermore she has been a regular contributor to Meininger‘s International, Meiningers Sommelier and Meiningers Weinwelt.

After more than two decades of researching, commenting and lecturing on every aspect of Italian wine, Crecelius’s intimate and detailed knowledge allowed her to build a nation-wide network spanning every sector. Today she is responsible for exacting analyses of the Italian wine industry and keeps readers informed through her almost daily reports on market-relevant developments across Italy for the Weinwirtschaft.