Wine News - September 2010 |
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Welcome to
VOLUME VIII,
NUMBER 8 of Wine News, the e-Letter from the WineCountry.IT network. (Would you
rather see the e-Letter on your favorite browser? Use
this link. Usa il link seguente se vuoi leggere
le News in italiano).
August is gone, and the 2010 grape harvest has started in various growing regions around the world for the production of sparkling wines and some whites.
In Italy the expectation is for a good quality vintage, with an excellent crop expected in the northern regions of Piedmont and Trentino Alto Adige. In late August, the Osservatorio del Vino (Wine Observatory) of the growers' association, Confagricoltura, said that in addition to quality, the 2010 vintage is expected to increase 2.5% across the board (4.3% in the Center-North of the country, and 0.3% in the Center South,) for a projected total of 46.5 million hectoliters (1,228.4 million gallons) of wine.
On a different subject, I have launched a NEWS column on Journals and Journeys, where I plan to publish in depth presentations of food items. I dedicated the first installment to beans, a common, versatile ingredient which I appreciate a lot and tend to use extensively. Check out the interesting beans marinated with extra virgin olive oil and herbs, spices, or seeds: they are soooo good, I love them.
Enjoy the reading and drink well, but in moderation.
Loris Scagliarini, WineCountry.IT President |
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PiùGusto 2010: Excellent Food Products in Lugano |
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 Each year, the Italian Swiss event offers the opportunity to taste artisanal food items from around the world, prepared according to ancient traditions. This year the fair will take place just a short walk from downtown, at the Centro Esposizioni di Lugano, from the 10th to the 12th of December 2010.
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Slow Food Italy: Protect the Identity of Cirò DOC Wine |
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 Thursday, August 26, 2010, Slow Food Calabria met in Vibo Marina, in the province of Vibo Valentia, on the southern tip of the Italian boot, in the presence of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity president, Piero Sardo, to discuss the modification to the production rules for the Cirò DOC wine, among other matters.
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TrentoDOC Guest of Honor at Naples' Città del Gusto |
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 The event will start with a tasting seminar dedicated to trade professionals and journalists, and will end with recipes of the Neapolitan cuisine paired with sparkling wines form the TrentoDOC association. All 31 producers associated will be present and will pour their best wines.
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VinNatur Taranto |
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 VinNatur Taranto, which will take place on the 20th and 21st of November 2010, represents a first step toward making wine lovers and consumers aware of natural wines. The protagonists of the event will be the 45 producers associated with VinNatur, 35 of whom are Italians, five Slovenians and five French, who have subscribed to the initiative.
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| Georgia World Wine Festival Fair 2010 |
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 The Georgia World Wine Festival Fair 2010, scheduled from the 16th to the 20th of September 2010, has been postponed to a later date to be announced, because the dates chosen conflict with grape harvesting across Europe.
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August 18, 2010: Harvest Starts in Franciacorta |
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 A map of the Franciacorta production area made in 1429, which reports the exact area of the 240 square kilometers (92.66 square miles) and includes the 21 towns of Adro, Brescia, Brione, Capriolo, Cazzago San Martino, Cellatica, Coccaglio, Cologne, Corte Franca, Erbusco, Gussago, Iseo, Monticelli Brusati, Ome, Paderno di Franciacorta, Paratico, Passirano, Polaveno, Provaglio d'Iseo, Rodengo-Saiano and Rovato.
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Professional Fair Bleu Wine Expo 2011 |
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 Registrations to the Professional Fair Blue Wine Expo 2011, which will take place in Marseilles, France, on February 7 and 8, 2011, ore open,
The Professional Fair Blue Wine Expo has enjoyed a growing success, with more than 500 visitors from various parts of the world in 2009, next year the Expo will launch its third annual trade show featuring over 120 independent winemakers.
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Wine Designed for the Chinese by Pernod Ricard in Australia |
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 Recently, close to 600 Chinese wine workers from global beverage giant Pernod Ricard, were in South Australia's Barossa Valley, one of the continent's best-known vineyard and wine production areas, to learn about a range of wines tailor-made for the Chinese market.
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World's Oldest Drinkable Champagne |
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 On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, divers in the Baltic Sea found what is believed to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world in a shipwreck whose nationality has not yet been determined, sunk near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland. The divers were so excited that they tasted the sole bottle they had brought up so far before they even returned to shore.
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Fagioli
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This month we present two IGP pork products: the appreciated Speck dell'Alto Adige IGP and a unique type of cold cut, as it is spreadable rather than sliceable, the Ciauscolo IGP from the Marche region, which obtained the European IGP designation in August 2009.
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Easy-to-prepare at home recipes using seasonal products and what's in the fridge and what's on hand at the time. Among the latest:
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Wineries from Italy are invited to participate in 
The result of the enormous task faced by a large number of Sommeliers Degustatori Ufficiali (Official Tasters) of the regional chapter of the Associazione Italiana Sommeliers, (AIS, or Italian Association of Sommeliers), who tasted and evaluated over 1,000 wines produced by 300 Emilia Romagna wineries in strictly blind taste sessions, is the publication of the 2010/2011 issue of the guide '
