Monte-Carlo Wine Festival 2010
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Michele Florentino, a long time resident of the Principality of Monaco, is the owner of the well known Restaurant Amici Miei (Friends of Mine), at Port de Fontvieille, in Monte-Carlo, which caters to the international jet-setters, as patrons can see from the numerous photographs gracing the restaurant's walls. In addition, Florentino is a wine and food writer and is often invited to speak at conferences and conventions, and once again he is the splendid host of the MCW, or Monte-Carlo Wine Festival, the event dedicated to wine and food professionals, wine lovers and gourmands, which takes place from the 5th to the 7th of June 2010, in the Principality of Monaco, the unparalleled economic center of the Côte d'Azur.
Now at the third annual event, it has become an interconational appointment and will be held at the Hotel Mèridien Beach Plaza, located a short two-minute walk from the Grimaldi Forum Congress Center, and the only hotel in town with a private beach, one indoor and two outdoor swimming pools, and a fitness center. The main scope of the show is to promote vitiviniculture in general, and provide an upscale meeting hub to wine producing estates and international buyers, distributors as well as local hospitality and enogastronomy professionals, sommeliers and the press. In 2009, the event was featured in over 200 printed articles and was mentioned on at least 15 to 20 television and radio shows, including TG1, RAIUNO (Italian national TV and Radio), Eatparade, La Vita in Diretta (Life Live). In addition to wine, the show will present seminars on natural alimentation, production controls, security and hygienic norms in wine and food production.
From left: Italian TV host, Michele Cocuzza; Italian Senator for Life, Giulio Andreotti; Elvio Bonollo, of Distillerie Bonollo Umberto SPA; René Novella, Secretary of State of the Principality of Monaco; Michele Florentino, organizer of the festival, restauranteur, and wine and food writer.
Italian Senator for Life, Giulio Andreotti, with
René Novella, Secretary of State of the Principality of Monaco.
Authorities of the Principality of Monaco
(Photograph taken during the 2008 Monte-Carlo Wine Festival. See more photographs >>)
Based upon research conducted by Michele Florentino, on January 2010, Italian Under Secretary to the Department of Health, Francesca Martini, launched a law prohibiting the use of additives in foodstuffs. The writ is currently effective in Italy only, but it could be adopted by the whole EU. This will be the subject of the First World Conference on 'Nutrition – Territory – Longevity', with the participation of Honorable Francesca Martini; General Director of Italian the Department of Health, Dr. Romano Marabelli; Monte-Carlo Ministry of Health, Dr. Stèphane Valeri; Professor Emila Costa, specialized in compulsive eating disorders; Professor Gianni Pes, teacher of Nutritional Science at the University of Cagliari, among other world experts.
From left: Loris Scagliarini, President of WineCountry.IT, LLC; Cristo Lepori, WineCountry.IT, LLC Italian Marketing manager; Michele Florentino, organizer of the MCWF, and Enza D'Amato of QualityADV, at the gala dinner offered by Florentino at his Restaurant Amici Miei, at Port de Fontvieille, in Monte Carlo.
(Photograph taken during the 2008 Monte-Carlo Wine Festival. See more photographs >>)
Participating producers will have the opportunity of presenting and offering tastings of their products which, thanks to the careful selection supervised by Michele Florentino, will be certain to delight the more sophisticated palates of the wine lovers and gourmands participating in the event.
His Excellency René Novella, Secretary of State of the Principality of Monaco (left),
with WineCountry.IT president, Loris Scagliarini at the 2008 del Monte-Carlo Wine Festival.(See more photographs >>)
Many VIP guests participated in the previous MCWFs, including among others S.A.S. Prince Albert II; Italian Senator for Life, Giulio Andreotti; former Italian agriculture Minister and current President of the Veneto Regional administration, Honorable Zaia,; Italian UN Ambassador, Dr. Fulci; Secretary of State of the Principality of Monaco, René Novella; Principality of Monaco Ambassador in Italy, S.E.M. Blanchi; Karel Muzikar; Sir Roger Moore; Italian actor, Remo Girone; Italian singer, Amedeo Minghi; Italian showgirl, Simona Tagli. Among the guests expected to participate in the 2010 show are Italian TV host, Michele Cocuzza; Italian TV journalist, Marina Como; organizer of the Miss Italia contest, Patrizia Merigliani; and Italian singer, Amedeo Minghi.
The first 'Nutrition – Territory – Longevity' World Conference, will guide participants along a virtual itinerary among food, wine and environment, to discover little known Italian landscapes which seem locked in the past. As long as agriculture, sheep farming and food culture are part of the Italian lifestyle, some places will not change much from when the grandparents of the current producers were farming, and the Monte-Carlo Wine Festival 2010 wants to highlight such locations.
International Wine Tasting
June 5 – 6 – 7, 2010
2, Av. De l'Annonciade
98000 Principauté de Monaco
Tel.: / Fax:+377 97 77 52 87,
Cell. +377 (0)6 78 63 43 52,
E-mail: info@monte-carlowinefestival.com.
Restaurant Amici Miei
16, Quai Jean-Charles Rey,
98000 Monaco.
Tel.: +37792059214,
Fax: +37792053174.
Hotel Méridien Beach Plaza Monaco
22, Avenue Pricesse Grasse,
98000 Monaco - Monte-Carlo
Tel.: +37793309880.
Fax: +37793502314.
French Government Tourist Ofice
Via Tiziano, 32, 20145 Milano
Tel.: 899 199 072,
Fax: 0258486221,
E-mail: Gloria Giovannetti
Monte-Carlo Wine Festival 2010 General Program
- Saturday, June 5, 2010
- 6PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Art show by Maurizio Di Maggio
'Great Wine Containers Interpreted by Venetian Master Painters and Sculptors.' - 6:30PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Show opening in the presence of authorities, press, producers, buyers and representatives of wine and food trade. - 7PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Presentation of Le Strade del Vino (The Wine Roads) in Monte-Carlo (restaurants, hotels, and wine bars which serve wines selected at the MCWF). - 7:45PM, Hotel Mèridien:
First World Conference entitled 'Nutrition – Territory – Longevity', with the participation of Italian Under Secretary to the Department of Health, Francesca Martini; General Director of Italian Department of Health, Dr. Romano Marabelli; Monte-Carlo Ministry of Health, Dr. Stèphane Valeri. - 8:35PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Healthful Long Drink offered by the Barman Association of the Principality of Monaco. - 8:45PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Cocktail and tastings of regional specialties and wines. - 9:30PM, Hotel Mèridien:
Preparation and tasting of a dessert flambè with three Italian liquors.
- 6PM, Hotel Mèridien:
- Sunday, June 6, 2010.
- 12PM, Restaurant Amici Miei:
Wine aperitif and 'Sensory Itinerary', tasting typical entrees and wines from the MCWF show, with Monaco authorities and participating producers. - 3PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Official opening of the tasting. - 3:30PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Vino e Vignette (Wine and Comics), from the Salone di Umorismo (Humor Salon) of Bordighera to Monte-Carlo. - 8PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Tasting ends for the day.
- 12PM, Restaurant Amici Miei:
- Monday, June 7, 2010
- 11AM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Tasting opens for the day. - 12:30PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Round table 'Small and Medium Wine Producers. What's in the Future?' - 2:30PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Guided Tasting moderated by Rita Mulas. - 3:30PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Roberto Panizzi, organizer of the event Campionato Mondiale del Pesto (Pesto World Championship), demonstrates how to prepare pesto Genoa style by hand using a mortar. - 5PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Ruché wine presentation by Dr. Franco Morando followed by tasting. - 8PM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Monte-Carlo Wine Festival ends.
- 11AM, Hotel Mèridien, Salon Meditèrranèe:
Head of Press Office & P.R. 'Atout France'
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