Franco Ziliani, born in Milan in 1956, is a freelance journalist living in Bergamo and has been writing about wine since 1984. He collaborates with numerous publications in Italy (Corriere Vinicolo, VQ, A.I.S, Lombardia news, and Spirito di vino, coordinating the weekly newsletter B!vino and the LaVINIum website), as well as abroad (The World of Fine Wine, Decanter and Harpers in England, La Revue du Vin de France in France and Wine Business Monthly in California). Along with his American colleague Nicolas Belfrage, he writes the Italian section of Tom Stevenson's annual Wine Report, and is currently working on a book on the Sangiovese grape.