Sunday 29 September, at the Loggia dei Mercanti of Palazzo Andreani (MN), a Festival celebrating the Wines and Flavors of Lombardy.

The Wine and Flavor Festival is a unique opportunity to encounter the food and wine and cultural riches of Lombardy, a region where a myriad of different views, products and territorial “know-how” meet. The event will be held on Sunday 29 September 2024 at the Loggia dei Mercanti of Palazzo Andreani (Via Spagnoli, 46100, Mantua). Organized by the Federation of Wine and Flavor Routes of Lombardy , the Festival celebrates the eleven Routes of the Federation through tastings and tastings, offering an in-depth look at the world of Lombard excellence. In addition to promoting products and local “know-how”, the event will also have a strong social connotation: the entire proceeds will be donated to charity .

During this day, visitors will be able to learn about, taste and purchase the identifying products of the Lombardy region in a location of art and elegance. After the first edition in Broni, at the Enoteca Regionale della Lombardia, this year the Festival moves to the evocative Renaissance center of Mantua, the city “worthy of anyone moving a thousand miles to see it”, as Torquato Tasso described it, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site and capital of Italian culture. Another novelty of the second edition is the presence at the Festival of the Strada del Riso and Risotti Mantovani , in the Mincio countryside on the border with Verona, where rice cultivation dates back to the period of Francesco Gonzaga (1500-1540), and the Strada del Rice of the three rivers , the latest born in chronological order among the Wine and Flavor Routes of the Lombardy Region , based in the Pavia area, in Mortara.

«With this Festival, the Federation aims to enhance the various Lombard expressions , first of all making them known to the final consumer». Says Gianni Boselli, President of the Federation . «It will be a day of celebration, in which the protagonists will be the identifying Lombard products, those authentically linked to the territories that are immediately associated with an area, in a city like Mantua , a true Renaissance jewel famous throughout the world for its its history, food and wine, art treasures and natural beauty, and awarded, not surprisingly, the title of Italian Capital of Culture for the year 2016″.

The Federation of Wine and Flavor Routes of Lombardy will bring together in a single mosaic all the food and wine excellences that co-exist in Lombardy. An ambitious undertaking if you think of the variety of landscapes, places and culture present in this vast region: from the Valtellina Wine Route , with its Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG and Bresaola, to the Valcalepio Wine Route and flavors of Bergamo , with its homonymous DOC wine and its cheeses and the Strada del Franciacorta , a wine which in 1995 became the first Italian territory and wine produced with the method of refermentation in the bottle; from the Botticino DOC wine of the Lombard Hills Road of wine and flavors to the Road of Rice and Risotti Mantovani , with its famous Risotto alla Pilota, cooked by absorbing the water with the subsequent addition of pork pesto; again, from the Strada del Vino del San Colombano e dei Sapori Lodigiani , with the famous raspadüra and its San Colombano DOC Rosso, to the Varzi salami of the Strada dell’Oltrepò Pavese . Also present is the Lomellina rice, with the Strada del Riso dei Tre Fiumi and the Cremonese mustard with the Strada del gusto cremonese in the land of Stradivari . Visitors will also have the opportunity to taste the refined Garda oil, an excellent product of the Garda Wines and Flavors Route . Finally, there will be the Mantuan Wines and Flavors Route , which will offer the public the opportunity to taste Mantuan Lambrusco, Mantuan Hills wines and Parmigiano Reggiano. This is just a taste of what can be discovered in the rich Lombard region.

Information: Sunday 29 September 2024, from 11:00 to 18:00, at Loggia dei Mercanti, Via Spagnoli, 46100 Mantua (MN).

Entrance fee: €5 which will be entirely donated to charity.

From 1 to 10 August the wineries that join the protection Consortium, led by Raffaele Librandi, will animate the territory of the historic Calabrian DOC, before the great final party in Madonna di Mare.

Tastings in the cellars, tours of the vineyards, the Masterclass with Matteo Gallello on the identity characteristics of Cirò and the talk with the food and wine press and the wine influencers of Calabria. Cirò is the land of wine by vocation. For centuries, on the hills overlooking the sea, enlightened producers and families who have always been dedicated to agriculture have planted vineyards that transform into the best-known Calabrian wine in the world . A tradition that today unites historic wineries with young vignerons who with the same spirit intend to enhance and promote that thousand-year history which today finds its common home in the ” Consortium for the protection and valorization of Cirò Doc and Melissa Doc wines “, chaired by Raffaele Librandi , who in August for several years, it has organized the Cirò Wine Festival, an event promoting the oldest DOC (awaiting to become DOC) in Calabria.

An event that from 1 to 10 August animates the area with a rich program of vineyards and cellars , tours of the wine-growing realities of the most significant denomination of Calabria, which ends in celebration, as is now tradition, on the night of the shooting stars in Madonna di Mare , with the tasting tables of the wineries belonging to the consortium, local food and music.

Born to focus attention on the most famous Calabrian wine production area in the world, enhance the territory, the work of the producers and winemakers which today brings together historic companies that are over a hundred years old and the new generations of vignerons in a perfect mix between tradition and modernity, the Cirò Wine Festival has now become the eagerly awaited summer event for wine lovers and the many tourists who flock to the Calabrian Ionian coast. Gaglioppo and other native grapes become the pretext to focus attention on an extraordinary territory, rich in biodiversity, culture and gastronomy in a perfect mix that acts as a catalyst for a great week dedicated to wine and its protagonists. This year the program which in the first part is made up of Off events in the cellars and venues of the area, will see Matteo Gallello , co-founder of the magazine Verticale, a six-monthly magazine dedicated to vertical tastings of the most iconic Italian wines, and editorial director as guest of the Cirò Wine Festival. of the in-depth magazine Bromio, dedicated to the symbols and anthropology of wine, which will curate the masterclass scheduled for August 9th at 4.30 pm in the Cirò council room. A technical moment for enthusiasts that will delve deeper into the characters and identity of the DOC wine.

Then, at 6.30 pm, Cirò with its ancient roots and new stories will be at the center of a talk involving the most authoritative names in Calabrian food and wine communication. On August 10th the great final event in Madonna di Mare, in the Saraceni Markets space, with the tasting open to the public in which numerous companies belonging to the Cirò and Melissa Wine Protection Consortium will take part and the music party with the Ricci concert of sea .

Red Circle Investments the press release below and in the attachment, regarding the decision to support the Only The Brave Call Alice project as announced by Renzo Rosso on the occasion of the agreement to exit Masi Agricola from the capital.

Red Circle Investments, Renzo Rosso’s private investment company, has chosen the charitable initiative to support as agreed and announced at the sale of the stake held in Masi Agricola.

The chosen project is Only The Brave Call Alice , the free online psychological helpdesk dedicated to young people between 12 and 25 years old, active since 2021 thanks to the OTB Foundation, the Third Sector body of the fashion group of the same name.
In fact, on the occasion of the exit agreement of Red Circle Investments from the capital of Masi Agricola, the two presidents, Renzo Rosso and Sandro Boscaini, announced that, following the clarification, they would identify a charitable initiative to support (such as from the press release issued by Masi Agricola on 15 March 2024), and the choice of the president of Red Circle Investments fell on this project.
According to data collected by the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, between 20% and 25% of children and adolescents in Italy show signs of anxiety and depression. To combat the significant increase in these disorders, the OTB Foundation and the Alice ETS Association have created Only The Brave Call Alice , a free help desk aimed at children aged 12 to 25 throughout Italy, a space for listening, discussion and support, a moment of meeting with a professional for those who feel the need in a particularly complex period like this.
Thanks to the collaboration between the OTB Foundation, which has always been attentive to young people and accustomed to responding quickly and effectively to new needs and difficulties, and the Alice ETS Association, of which the well-known psychotherapist Stefania Andreoli is president, over 300 young people have been able to contact the desk since the start of the activity for over 1400 hours of individual consultancy, and the constant increase in the number of requests has pushed the Foundation to better structure this treatment space, guaranteeing that every adult user who needs it will be taken care of at least 10 free psychological interviews.
“ I am very proud of the projects that the OTB Foundation supports, and attention to the problems of young people in particular is something that has always been close to my heart. As communicated, the choice of the project to which to donate should have been jointly with Sandro Boscaini, but not having found an agreement and wanting to keep the public promise made, I decided to proceed and keep faith with my commitment, especially since it concerns social issues, a in which I have been engaged for years. My concept of entrepreneurship is in fact more circular than ever: companies produce, sell, create profits and have the duty to return part of it to society “, is the comment of Renzo Rosso.

You can get to know it and taste it at the theater, in an exclusive event.

Its history begins 2500 years ago.

Among the first admirers of this Italian excellence were the Gauls, but also Julius Caesar, returning from the war in Gaul, struck by the quality of the wine from the Alba area, wanted to bring it to Rome.
There is also a trace of the Nebbiolo grape in some documents dating back to the Middle Ages in which “Nibiol” is mentioned. Its notoriety began to grow in 1751, when some Piedmontese diplomats sent a batch of “Barol” to London, with great success, so much so that the future president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, traveling in Europe, mentioned it in his diaries “almost amiable like Bordeaux and lively like Champagne”.
At that time the taste of Barolo was sweet and sparkling, it was not yet possible to transform all the sugars into alcohol.
The birth of modern Barolo began in the 1930s, thanks to the Marchesi Falletti family, the French oenologist Alexandre-Pierre Odart and Count Camillo Benso di Cavour.
The Falletti family was a family of bankers who purchased important land properties in the municipality of Alba since 1250.
It was thanks to the resourcefulness and intuition of Juliette Colbert de Maulevrier, wife of Carlo Tancredi Falletti, that in the first half of the 19th century one of the most important pages in the history of Barolo was written and acquired the nobility of today’s wine.
Having become so popular, it even intrigued King Charles Albert of Savoy so much so that Giulia di Barolo sent him 325 wagons each containing a barrel, one for each day of the year, so that the king could taste a different wine every day. Since then Barolo has been called “The king of wines, the wine of kings”.
Another great protagonist was the Count of Cavour who, having become the mayor of Grinzane in his twenties, called the French oenologist, Alexandre-Pierre Odart, to take care of the wine on the family property.
Thus was born the modern style of Barolo which, for the first time in 1844, was bottled as a dry and still wine.

The Strada del Barolo and great wines of the Langa and the Accademia Theaters of the city of Conegliano and Ristori of Verona, in collaboration with Pilota Green, propose an exclusive event that brings the world of wine to the stage of a theater for the first time in Italy.
An emotional journey through the music of Maestro Ennio Morricone and the story of the history and future of Barolo, enriched by a tasting of Barolo wine.

“Barolo, music and theatre”

Wednesday 18 September 2024 – Accademia Theater of Conegliano – 7.00 pm
Thursday 19 September 2024 – Teatro Ristori of Verona – 7.00 pm

A unique experience, aimed at a passionate and curious audience, where wine, taste and music will contribute to creating an atmosphere of refined beauty and profound emotion.

7.00 pm
The curtain opens with the voice of the actor Giorgio Lupano in a monologue which, starting from the story of the origins of the word “wine”, will accompany us during the evening touching on the history of wine in the world and in Italy, up to the history of Barolo.
The most famous music of Maestro Morricone rearranged and performed by the guitar of Massimo Scattolin, by the violin of Paolo Tagliamento, by the strings of the Venice Dream Ensemble, will conquer the scene.

At 8.40 pm the public will move to the welcoming Foyer of the theater for an exclusive tasting: a sensorial journey through the centuries of history contained in the bottles of Barolo, a symbol of prestige and winemaking tradition, accompanied by tastings of excellent local agri-food products Piedmontese.