European Sideways 2008 - Day Four
Loris Scagliarini - Photographs: L. Scagliarini, P. Alciati, C. Lepori - February 23, 2008
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Saturday, February 23, 2008: Monte Carlo Wine Festival, Opening
All in all I sleep probably a couple of hours, before getting up, hopping into the shower, grabing my heavy wheeled bag and going to the nearby train station where I take a regional train 2062 to Voghera, where I change to a European train 141 to Monte Carlo.
Cristo Lepori, WineCountry.IT marketing manager boards the train in Genoa, where he has arrived on the overnight from Rome.
Monte Carlo welcomes us with a balmy, springtime weather. We lunch at an outdoor table facing the ocean and are reached by Paolo Alciati, principal of QualityADV, the Italian agency who sells advertising spaces on WineCountry.IT's web sites network, along with his wife, Enza D'Amato.
Elvio Bonollo, of Distillerie Bonollo Umberto SPA from Padua, with one of the 850 numbered bottles of 'Spirit of Solidarity', a special Grappa di Amarone created especially for the MCWF.
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The first Monte Carlo Wine Festival opens at 5PM with an introduction by Michele Florentino, organizer and patron of the festival. Italian Senator for Life, Honorable Giulio Andreotti, His Excellency Ren้ Novella, Secretary of State of the Principality of Monaco, and Italian TV journalist, Michele Cucuzza. In addition, well known radio personality Awana Ghana, who presents Professor Leonardo Saviano, who introduces 'The History of Wine Up To MCWF', Elvio Bonollo, of Distillerie Bonollo Umberto SPA from Padua, which has produced 850 bottles of 'Spirit of Solidarity', a special Grappa di Amarone created especially for the event.
Claudio Melotto of Arcimboldo Global Communications s.r.o., introduces the stump of
Comenius vine, brought from the Moldavia region, to be planted in Monte Carlo.
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A Czech Republic delegation, lead by Deputy Minister of Culture, Antonin Tesarik, and Claudio Melotto of Arcimboldo Global Communications s.r.o., have brought a stump of Comenius vine from the Moldavia region, to be planted in Monte Carlo as a symbol of brotherhood and solidarity among people and countries.
WineCountry.IT Loris Scagliarini and Cristo Lepori, with radio personality Awana Ghana
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The evening ends with a gala party featuring gastronomic specialties from the Campania region of Italy, which is offered by a group of chefs brought to Monte Carlo by the association Agropromos.
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