Welcome to
VOLUME VIII,
NUMBER 5 of Wine News, the e-Letter from the WineCountry.IT network. (Would you
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In May, WineCountry.IT, LLC organized the successful 12th annual Italian Flavor Forum. This invitation-only wine and specialty food tasting event is dedicated to professional buyers, wine educators, trade journalists and San Francisco Bay Area opinion leaders,and its purpose is to promote select quality Italian wines and food items produced by small and medium estates. The event took place at the Italian-American Museum in San Francisco on the 27th, just before the Memorial Day weekend, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco.
The numerous invited guests provided us, and the participating producers, with precious feedback about the new wines, extra virgin olive oils, traditional balsamic vinegar and condiments from Modena.
We are very proud because, despite the fact that the California-wine-trained palate of a few guests resulted in scores much lower than average –see for instance the minimum and maximum scores of Toscana 2004 IGT Occhini, Ravenna Rosso IGT Burson Blue Label 2006, or Chianti DOCG 2008– the overall scores obtained by all the products presented were fairly high. In fact, 16 products scored over 95 points (Excellent), and nine between 90 and 94 (Very Good). Only 10 products scored between 70 and 79 points (Average), while all the other scored from 80 to 89 points (Good.)
Since WineCountry.IT dedicated its energies to the Flavor Forum show, there are sdomewhat fewer articles in this issue. We hope you will enjoy them and make a note to lookm for the next issue, which will certainly be richer in content. Enjoy,
Loris Scagliarini, WineCountry.IT President |
The fourth annual Umbria Wine Festival, trade show and tasting of wines from the Umbria region, took place in Perugia on April 24 and 25, 2010. Roberto Anesi won the Master Internazionale in Vini Passiti e da Meditazione (International Master in Passiti and Meditation Wines).
Cantine Aperte (Open Cellars) is arguably the most important Italian wine event of the year. It brings wine lovers from all walks of life to the places where the grapes are grown and puts them in direct contact with the people who produced the wines that they are tasting.
