In Castelbuono there is a Bib Gourmand alley
Friday July 5, chef Sandro Cicero of Ristorante Palazzaccio with chef Francesca Carollo of NANGALARRUNI U.V.A CLUB, are waiting for you for a dinner to be held in the VICOLO that connects the two restaurants.
With the sweet ricotta with Liccia cherry jelly with tartarre of peach snuffers marinated in moscato there will be our Passito Baccadoro.
We certainly could not miss on Monday July 8th the TEN event to be held at the Sea Club of Terrasini (PA), with our winemaker Lorenza Scianna. This 2019 edition is dedicated to all women that work in restaurants and wineries.
Giuseppe Costa, Chef of Il Bavaglino Restaurant, has involved 10 chefs, protagonists of the Italian Michelin restaurants. In fact, they joined him enthusiastically: Martina Caruso (ristorante Hotel Signum a Salina – ME, 1 stella Michelin), Maria Cicorella (ristorante Pashà Ristorante a Conversano – BA, 1 stella Michelin), Iside De Cesare (ristorante Ristorante La Parolina – Trevinano ad Acquapendente – VT, 1 stella Michelin), Patrizia Di Benedetto (ristorante Ristorante Bye Bye Blues – Mondello a Mondello – PA, 1 stella Michelin), Giuliana Germiniasi (ristorante Ristorante Capriccio a Manerba del Garda – BS, 1 stella Michelin), Rosanna Marziale (ristorante Le Colonne Restaurant a Caserta, 1 stella Michelin), Maria Probst (ristorante Ristorante La Tenda Rossa a Cerbaia – FI, 1 stella Michelin), Antonella Ricci (ristorante Al Fornello da Ricci a Ceglie Messapica – BR, 1 stella Michelin) e la pastry chef Edvige Simoncelli (ristorante idylio by Apreda a Roma). Insieme a loro, lo chef resident del Sea Club Terrasini, Flavio Mannoia.
The gala dinner will be attended by ten women protagonists of the Sicilian vitiviniculture with the wines of their own companies.
The proceeds from the event will go to charity to the Associazione Amici Onlus.
Thanks to Gambero Rosso’s Tre Bicchieri magazine for telling about our American experience at Vini di Italia Anteprime, which took place between Atlanta and San Diego.
From Sicily to the beaches of Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD) for WineAround – vino e d’intorni in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
From the 21th of June until Sunday, the 23th of June, don’t miss the chance of a fresh winetasting with our Grillo Parlante at Enoteca Italia stand with Vinibuoni d’Italia.
JosephVargetto‘s Massi will host two evenings of intense competition on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th of June with their Polentoni vs Terroni dinners!
Guests get to savour dishes from the north and south of Italy matched with accompanying wines from Astoria Wines, Cantine Bertani and Viviani from the north and Spadafora dei Principi and Fondo Antico representing the south – and vote for their favourites! Looking forward to it.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 28 June at 6.30 pm at Scillirazzo Enoteca Sicula (via Belgio 57 – Palermo) to taste together the Grillo Parlante of Fondo Antico, one of the greatest expressions of this extraordinary grape variety in Sicily.
The tasting will be free and the Cunzato company will delight us with its pests and pates.
5 StarsWine 2019 di Vinitaly
Nero D’Avola 2017 – Fondo Antico
87/100 points
It is often said that “union is strength”, but if this union is composed of capable, stubborn, willful, well-prepared people who dedicate their time to do good only for the good itself? Well then here we can find volcanic people like Micol Ferrara who, with her joy for life, manages to combine more people together in a unique, appetizing and solidarity project “Inside / Out Shared Food”.
This project, which embraces the whole of Italy in a supportive embrace, is in favor of women who are in the district homes for minor crimes and supports the non-profit company of Luciana Delle Donne “Officina Creativa”. Food is the most appropriate vehicle to raise awareness of a topic that is often inconvenient to deal with, but which, on the contrary, by knowing it, one can understand how much humanity there is behind the walls of the prison. She is the founder and CEO of “Officina Creativa”, a non-profit company that deals with the reintegration of women in prisons and works through two brands: Made in Carcere and 2nd Chance and recently also a new product, Scappatelle , made by the people who are in the district houses of Bari and Nisida and are organic and vegan biscuits. Every year Micol loves to dedicate herself for free, but with all of herself, to a project in which she strongly believes and that above all embodies a fundamental concept “to do good only for the good itself”, and from here comes the collaboration with the non-profit organization “1 caffè” founded by Beniamino Savio of which the actor Luca Argentero is vice president. The non-profit organization supports assistance projects related to difficult situations, such as poverty, marginalization, racism, etc. and after having proposed the Inside / Out Shared Food project, with joy this was accepted. Taking advantage of the possible multimedia channels, on the home page of the site, or on Twitter, text messages, etc. from 3 to 9 June p.v. a coffee or a breakfast can be donated to Inside / Out Shared Food depending on the donation of 1 or 5 euros.
A series of events related to this initiative will begin. We will start from Turin on June 4th at 1.30pm at the “Du Cesari” Restaurant by chef Danilo Pelliccia with the initiative “Una Carbonara e un Caffè”, where, in addition to the legendary Chef’s carbonara, you can taste typical dishes of the Roman tradition like the Gricia with figs, Tonnarelli alla Nerone, Cacio e Pepe and Menta Nepitella. Danilo Pelliccia immediately enjoyed Made in Carcere project, in fact he and his entire staff wore the aprons sewn by the prisoners. During lunch, together with the general secretary of the non-profit organization “1 coffee” Silvia Meacci, Micol Ferrara will talk about the project and the mission of this initiative to which Danilo will offer the first 100 coffees. Then we will go to Sicily where two restaurants “Bastioni & Costanza” and “Enosteria Sicula” will open the doors of their restaurants to support the project.
On 7 June at the “Enosteria Sicula” of the restaurateurs Piero Scelfo, Danilo Ciulla, Massimo Rallo, an aperitif will be held at 7.00 pm where the bruschetta will be the highlight. From the most classic to the gourmet ones where the leitmotiv will be the freshness and seasonality of the product. All that is found fresh from fish, meat and vegetables, we will taste them in the finger food par excellence of our tradition, the bruschetta among which three in particular designed starting from the suggestions of the women who are in the district houses: sparacelli shrimp and lard, broad beans and crispy cod, white caponata and almonds.
Bruschette will be paired with wines from the winery Fondo Antico, from Trapani. Two fresh, joyful wines that recall the scents of spring, rebirth, the prelude to something new, good and beautiful: Aprile, a rosé of Nero d’Avola, and Dry Zibibbo Bello Mio.
The entire article can be found on CapriNotizie.it written by Maria Simeoli
For this 8th edition of Avvinando Wine Fest, the event recorded four thousand visitors in two days, a hundred wineries and about 800 labels.
Credit for success goes, of course, to the organizers Massimiliano Morghese, Giuseppe D’Aguanno and Marco Busalacchi who are committed to creating “the richest edition ever” citing their words. It is no coincidence that the selection of participating wineries has been very accurate and has followed precise quality criteria. From biological to biodynamic, from “natural” to “conventional” wines, each producer told his own story, his passion and his way of making wine, with his own production philosophy.
The festival, “staged” at the Cantieri Culturali at the Zisa in Palermo on 11st and 12nd May, finds its strength in the presence of producers, ready to tell their own story to the increasingly numerous public of wine lovers, who loves to taste wines that represent a terroir, hearing wines’ informations directly from those who produce them, experiencing, every day, in first person, the choice to focus on quality relying on their own abilities.
So, among full glasses, bright smiles and interesting encounters in the “magic” wine world, there were, however, moments of reflection such as the seminar focused “We work every day to leave our children a better environment than ours” in occasion of which Lucrezia Lamastra, scientific coordinator of the SOStain program, spoke of sustainability in the Sicilian vitiviniculture with the referents of Cusumano, Tasca D’Almerita and Planeta wineries through the story of the project that this wineris share following the desire to communicate good agricultural practices aimed at respect for the ecosystem and absolute transparency towards the consumer.
On Sunday 12nd there was also an interesting laboratory of the Pellegrino Winery entitled “Quattro Grilli per la Testa” in which four wines were tasted, all produced with Grillo grapes. The laboratory led by Carla Spatafora, Brand Ambassador of the winery and by Luigi Salvo, delegate of Ais Palermo. The winetasting would show how it is possible obtain absolutely different wines from Grillo variety. We tasted four different Grillo Wines, produced in different ways, that come from different soils and part of Sicily. Grillo has become extremely versatile and able, contrary to what was believed in the past, to hold up well time thanks to a marked minerality and acidity given to the grapes by some lands closer to the sea.
Here are some of our best Sicilian wine tastings:
Fondo Antico – Grillo Parlante 2018
Bright straw yellow color. The nose offers elegant notes of white flowers, pear and apple and Mediterranean aromas of sage and rosemary. In the mouth the sip is lively and permeates the palate thanks to a strong savory trail that lengthens the memory.
The original article could be find on Wining.it written by Manuela Zanni
