ONAV

ONAV

ONAV, Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Vino, is the Italian Association of Wine tasters, founded in Asti in 1951. It’s mission is promoting a fair wine culture throughout the approach to tasting, dissemination and teaching through local courses. ONAV has a national body and boasts a great number of sections in several Italian provinces. Anybody can enroll to ONAV to test his own attitude to the wine world and learn in a pleasant way.

ONAV organizes different types of courses, 1st, 2nd and 3rd level to teach how to approach sensorially wine. According to the different courses, over 100 wines, produced with different varieties, from different production areas, not only from Italy, and different production techniques are tested. ONAV uses a sensory evaluation form approved by the Union International des Oenologues. Many teachers are agronomist technicians and winemakers in order to give professional training to the students.

Especially from 1980 to today, ONAV has expanded throughout the national territory and is also spreading abroad. It can count on a national office and 80 sections scattered throughout the national territory that organize as many 1st level courses every year, about 20 2nd level courses and a 3rd level course, carried on in collaboration with the University of Turin.

ONAV is the owner of a web portal (www.onav.it) on which not only are all the information regarding the association collected, but all the training activities carried out on the national territory, the italian national registers of wine tasters and the register of ONAV teachers are managed, enhanced and promoted by the national seat, in collaboration with the provincial delegations. Moreover, ONAV is the owner of two websites related to Prosit which is the ONAV’s perpetual guide of Italian wines (www.guidaprosit.it) and to the ONAV web magazine (www.onavnews.it).