On July 11th, Nervesa della Battaglia hosted a day entirely dedicated to Recantina, with a conference by the Academy of Vine and Wine and a meeting attended by 24 producers from the Asolo Montello Wine Consortium.

An intense day of learning, discussion, and tasting featuring Recantina, a native grape variety from the Asolo Hills and Montello, protected by the Asolo Montello Wine Consortium.

Organized by the Academy of Vine and Wine in collaboration with the Consortium, Giusti Wine and the GRASPO project, the meeting “ Recantina: Montello and the Asolani Hills between history, tradition and science ” highlighted the historical, scientific and oenological value of this variety, long forgotten and today at the centre of interest of producers and researchers.

” Recantina is the red face of our hills,” said Michele Noal, president of the Asolo Montello Consortium. “It’s a grape variety we almost risked losing, but it tells the story of our territory and is now being reborn with strength, thanks to patient and collaborative work between research and production. After the international success of Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG, the time has come to promote this highly distinctive variety, capable of producing intense, elegant wines with great aging potential. This day is a key milestone in a journey we intend to continue with determination.”

The morning conference, aimed at the Academicians of Vine and Wine and moderated by Academician Danilo Riponti , opened with greetings from Ermenegildo Giusti , and then moved into the heart of the matter with presentations by soil scientist Giuseppe Benciolini , vine geneticist Luigi Bavaresco , oenologist Graziana Grassini , and wine communicator Silvia Baratta . Historian Franco Dalla Rosa , Grand Master of the Asolo Montello Wine Confraternity, provided a fascinating overview of the origins of Recantina, while oenologists Aldo Lorenzoni and Luigino Bertolazzi presented the GRASPO project and introduced an initial selection of wines made from rare local grape varieties.

The afternoon, dedicated to the Consortium’s member producers and the press, represented another key moment of the day, where Grand Master Franco Dalla Rosa, Michele Zanardo, President of the National Committee of DOP and IGP Wines and the President Emeritus of AIS Eddy Furlan spoke in a tasting dedicated to all the Recantina wines currently in production .

“It was a moment of technical and cultural value,” Noal added. ” We heard authoritative voices describe Recantina not only from a scientific perspective, but also from an experiential perspective. The goal is to encourage more and more companies to produce it.”

Recantina, a red grape variety with a deep color, aromas of berries, spices, and undergrowth, and a structure capable of withstanding long aging, confirms itself as one of the most promising varieties in the Veneto and national winemaking scene . An authoritative and original voice, it is poised to secure a prominent place in the new geography of Italian wine, thanks to the synergistic work of institutions, consortia, and producers.

The Go Wine Wine Festival returns to Alba’s historic center at the end of September!

Alba’s historic center becomes a “wine route” for two Sundays!

The Go Wine Wine Festival returns to Alba again this year! This is the 27th edition of the event, which showcases the most representative wines of the Langa and Roero regions in the city’s historic center .

The double date scheduled for Sunday 21 and Sunday 28 September 2025 has been confirmed.

The initiative, promoted by Go Wine, is a popular event among Italian and international wine enthusiasts. This year’s format will once again allow visitors to explore Piazza Risorgimento (Piazza Duomo), Via Vittorio Emanuele, and Via Cavour, transforming the historic center into a veritable “wine trail” for a day.

The event brings together wineries from the municipalities of Langa and Roero , maintaining its festive character, evoking the time and joyous nature of the grape harvest. Local promotion organizations, wineries, wine shops, and producer associations are also present. For several years, participation has also been extended to wineries from municipalities in the Monferrato area.

Tastings confirmed to open from late morning!

On both days, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., producers, organized through the participating municipalities, will present their products for tasting and promote their local businesses and events. The event will begin at 11:00 a.m.!

From the famous Barolo and Barbaresco, the pride of the area, to the other noble wines of the Langhe and Roero: Nebbiolo d’Alba, Roero, Roero Arneis, Barbera d’Alba, Dolcetto d’Alba, Diano and Dogliani, and many others.

A unique tasting menu is expected, featuring a wide range of wines: a unique opportunity to discover new and diverse products, savor the charm of a tour through the city’s historic center, and discover the specialties that characterize the hills surrounding Alba.

Some collateral events enrich the general program and will be presented over the next few weeks.

Starting from the Go Wine Lounge, dedicated exclusively to Barolo and Barbaresco producers , who can meet with a small additional fee on the tasting ticket and only at certain dedicated times (3 shifts) on each Sunday:

11:00 – 12:30

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Visitors can enjoy tastings (both along the Wine Route and in the Go Wine Lounge) by purchasing a glass and a pouch, and then choosing and comparing the wines offered for tasting. Wines can also be purchased directly from the producers present.

In Cervia (July 18), Riccione (July 25), and Cesenatico (August 8), a whirlwind of tastings and pairings featuring hundreds of wines, certified products, gourmet preparations, chefs, and sommeliers showcase regional food and wine to wine lovers, foodies, tourists, and visitors. In September, the tour concludes with stops in Emilia, in Spilamberto, Ferrara, and Piacenza.

The program includes special mini-tours to explore regional DOP wines.

After the Emilian preview in Correggio, Tramonto DiVino 2025 restarts on the Romagna Riviera with three stops : Cervia on July 18, Riccione on July 25, and Cesenatico on August 8. And it is precisely in Cesenatico that the Emilia-Romagna taste roadshow celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year, a sign of a continuing interest that has not suffered a crisis.

The 2025 tour was presented at Bagno Milano in Cesenatico, attended by the town’s mayor, Matteo Gozzoli; Cervia’s Councilor for Productive Activities, Mirko Boschetti; and Pietro Campaldini of the Emilia-Romagna Region’s Department of Agriculture. The regional wine industry’s elite were also in attendance: Davide Frascari, President of Enoteca Regionale; Luca Manfredi and Adolfo Treggiari, Presidents of AIS Emilia and Romagna; and Roberto Monti, President of the Romagna Wine Consortium. Representatives of local consortia and trade associations were also present. The event was coordinated by Maurizio Magni, journalist for PrimaPagina.

Format Sunset DiVino

Organized over a single evening to offer a comprehensive experience of the best regional food and wine in just a few hours, each Tramonto DiVino stop is held in a large city location—a historic center square, a fortress, or an urban park. The chosen area, in consultation with the partner municipalities, is set up as a veritable “taste arena,” where hundreds of foodies and wine lovers gather at the stands to sample regional wines paired with certified products.

The 2025 tour features many new features , remaining true to its mission of pairing regional food and wine with multiple tastings. The tasting tables will feature 30 DOC, DOCG, and IGT wines from Romagna and Emilia, for a total of approximately 1,000 different labels . AIS (Emilia and Romagna) sommeliers will describe and pair them with a generous selection of the region’s 44 DOP and IGP products, and, starting this year, with seafood from the Adriatic.

What’s new for 2025: the protagonists and in-depth tours

Each stage of Tramonto DiVino highlights one or more products, both wine and food, making them the true protagonists with a unique display and dedicated communication. The protagonists will be showcased by the chefs and paired with unique wines. A new highlight for the 2025 Tramonto DiVino tour are the seafood products of the Northern Adriatic, which will co-star at various stages thanks to co-financing from the Feampa program.

During the event, special attention will be paid to promoting PDO wines through mini-tours led by sommelier-tasting experts, showcasing and promoting the Emilia-Romagna denomination labels. At each stop, four selected PDO wines will be explored in depth by sommeliers during mini-tours for around ten wine lovers. The tour is free for enthusiasts, but registration is required at the event entrance.

The wines for tasting

Around 1,000 labels will be tasted, divided into various stages: from Albana, Trebbiano, and Sangiovese di Romagna, to Pignoletto dei Colli Bolognesi, Lambrusco di Modena and Reggio Emilia, the Ferrara-based “sand wines,” Piacenza’s Gutturnio and Ortrugo, and the Malvasia wines shared with the Colli di Parma. The wines will also include many blends with international wines, from semi-sparkling wines and classic method sparkling wines to dessert wines and straw wines. These wines will be described and served by an impressive array of liveried sommeliers. Around 300 labels representing all the regions will be present at each stage, in addition to the Best 100 and 12 ambassadors , wines that have received the highest recognition this year in the AIS Regional guide.

Certified products

Accompanying the wines will be certified regional products, provided by the partner consortia of the regional PDO and PGI products: Emilian greats like Parma Ham PDO, Modena PDO, Piacenza PDO cured meats, the fragrant Bologna PGI Mortadella, and brief forays into other cured meats like Salame Cacciatorino PDO, Coppa di Parma PGI, and Salame Felino PGI. And then there’s the king of cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano PDO and Squacquerone di Romagna PDO, the ever-present Piadina Romagnola PGI, Romagna peaches and nectarines, Bologna PDO potatoes, traditional balsamic vinegars from Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Modena PGI vinegar, Central Apennines PGI white veal, Romagna PDO shallots, and other delicious surprises.

The 2025/2026 AIS Guide ‘ Emilia-Romagna to Drink and Eat ‘ is a handbook for tasting evenings. It is delivered to all participants at each stage of the food festival. Together with the Vini Emilia Romagna App, which can be downloaded free of charge from all stores, it allows you to get in touch with regional wine production through the stories of expert tasters from the local AIS.

Stages & News

It all kicks off on July 18th in Cervia with the Craft Gin Summer Fest, a special stop on the tour dedicated to spirits. Starting at 7:00 PM in Piazza Costa, between the historic Torre San Michele and the Magazzini del Sale, certified regional foods will pair with a selection of artisanal gins from across Italy. Regional gins and spirits will also be the focus of a large tasting table curated by Enoteca Regionale Emilia Romagna, where a small brigade of bartenders led by Stella Palermo, aka Monica & Tonica, will mix innovative cocktails inspired strictly by the region. Adding to the evening’s spectacularity will be a tasting table featuring Salumi Piacentini DOP (Protected Designation of Origin), featuring the AperiDOP (Protected Designation of Origin) creative mix of cocktails and Piacenza delicacies, a gourmet risotto made with Romagnola mussels, and a refreshing dessert featuring Black-Buckle Watermelon from the Dolce Passione Consortium. An agreement with the Fiepet Confesercenti tourist facilities in Cervia will allow tourists and restaurant and hotel guests in Cervia and Milano Marittima to enter the event with a fast-track lane.

Following this, “Tramonto DiVino in Villa” (Tramonto DiVino in Villa) will take place on Friday, July 25th in Riccione. This event is dedicated to tourists and visitors to the Riviera, who last year, thanks to an agreement with the local Federalberghi (Italian hotel association), enjoyed the unforgettable food and wine experience of Emilia-Romagna. This event is particularly rich and will feature two protagonists: Piadina Romagnola IGP, featuring a gourmet piada and a dessert with Piadina IGP crumble by Emilian street food maestro Daniele Reponi; and Adriatic Fish, interpreted with flair and skill by Matteo Salbaroli of the CheftoChef Emilia-Romagna Cuochi Association, a partner of Tramonto Divino, with a delicious amuse-bouche of bluefish and a traditional pasta dish filled with cuttlefish ragù. Accompanying the food preparations will be a special guest: the Novebolle collective brand bubbles, created to promote the Romagna Spumante DOC, curated by the Consorzio Vini di Romagna, paired with a precious selection of Culatello di Zibello DOP and Parmigiano Reggiano DOP.

The final stop on the Riviera will be the historic evening in Cesenatico, where Tramonto DiVino was founded in the summer of 2005, scheduled for Friday, August 8th in Piazza Spose Marinai. Making this stop unique, set between the sea and Leonardo’s harbor, will be a tasting stand featuring award-winning international wines from the Brussels World Wine Competition, of which Tramonto DiVino is a partner. These wines will pair with Romagna’s Novebolle sparkling wines, which can be sampled alongside Goro oysters and samples of tartare of Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino PGI. The star of the event and the gourmet recipe prepared by chefs from the Pellegrino Artusi Institute in Forlimpopoli will be the Patata di Bologna PDO, a “border” dish celebrating Emilia and Romagna together. Three hundred regional wine labels and finger food tastings of certified regional cured meats and cheeses, nectarines, and fresh black-skinned watermelon from the Dolce Passione Consortium . Tastings curated and served by students and instructors from the Pellegrino Artusi School in Forlimpopoli complete the array of tastings. In Cesenatico, too, thanks to an agreement with the local Cooperative of Bathing Establishments, beachgoers will have discounted entry to the event.

Starting in early September, the Tramonto DiVino caravan will move to Emilia for a stop on September 5th in Spilamberto in the Modena province, home to Lambrusco and Modena Traditional Balsamic Vinegar DOP. Following this, on September 10th , it will be Ferrara ‘s turn to host Tramonto DiVino in Piazza Municipale, co-organized with the local Wine and Flavors Route, with Adriatic fish as the star attraction, brought to life by the fishermen of Goro. After Ferrara, Tramonto DiVino will stop in Piacenza on September 19th , under the splendid portico of Palazzo Gotico in Piazza Cavalli, with two local highlights: Piacenza DOP cured meats and Grana Padano DOP, served alongside other regional food products paired with great wines from across the region.

In addition to the stages dedicated to wine lovers and industry professionals, there will be another invitation-only evening on July 22nd at the Rocca di Dozza , home of the Enoteca Regionale Emila Romagna, organized to reward the producers of the 112 wines that obtained the best scores in the 2026 AIS Guide, previewed during the stage.

During the events, the storytelling of chefs, journalists, and sommeliers will transform the gastronomic events into cultural encounters, interspersed with lounge music and surprise incursions, such as the bubbles of the Regional Classic Method Award (Giuliano Zuppiroli).

Information and participation

To ensure proper selection of event attendees, encouraging them to taste and consume regional wines and food products in a conscious manner, an entrance fee will be charged, depending on the stages and tasting options, ranging from €20 to €30. Tickets can be purchased in advance (at no additional cost) on the website www.shop.emiliaromagnavini.it to avoid queues and crowds at the entrance desk.

The ticket includes free wine tasting at the tasting tables, some food options, both served as is and prepared by the chefs, the ‘Emilia-Romagna to Drink and Eat’ guide, and a tasting glass.

The Poggio della Dogana (Castrocaro Terme) festival will conclude on Friday, July 18th with a food and wine journey of unusual pairings created by chef Mattia Borroni..

The third event in the summer series Cene al Poggio , which combines signature cuisine with Poggio della Dogana wines, is scheduled for Friday, July 18th at 8:00 PM in the charming company headquarters in the hills of Castrocaro Terme (FC). After the opening event, which focused on the meeting of Asia and Romagna, and the second event dedicated to olive oil, the trio of tastings will be completed with a food and wine journey entitled Contrasts . The proposed menu will celebrate the beauty that arises from unexpected and unusual encounters , within the plates and in the glasses. Flavor and sweetness, verticality and roundness, delicacy and pronounced aroma: chef Mattia Borroni of the Alexander Restaurant in Ravenna will enhance the individual ingredients and flavors of the courses as well as the character of each wine. “The 2025 edition of Cene al Poggio was a success,” comments Aldo Rametta , co-owner of Poggio della Dogana with his brother Paolo. “The enthusiastic response from the public confirms how conviviality and discussion are enriching and valuable dynamics for understanding and experiencing our wines and our heritage.” Guests will be welcomed with a sunset aperitif among the vines, featuring Vindice Metodo Classico Pas Dosé Millesimato paired with finger foods such as Mora Romagnola skewers, rosemary and crispy onion, creamed cod, fruit and vegetable dip , and gratin scallops with ginger and lemon . The seated dinner will begin with raw prawns, green gazpacho, cucumber, feta, olives, and dill , followed by warm spaghetti with herb pesto, mussels, and helichrysum , both enhanced by the aromas of Sottovento Rubicone IGT Sauvignon Blanc from Ronchi di Castelluccio , a historic Modigliana winery also owned by the Rametta brothers. Santa Reparata Romagna Sangiovese Castrocaro DOC from Poggio della Dogana will be served alongside grilled guinea fowl, peanuts, chard, lard, and lemon . The food and wine journey will conclude with a carrot, orange, coconut, and mango dessert paired with a glass of Dulcinea made from overripe Albana grapes. The atmosphere will be enhanced by the setting by Timida , a Ravenna-based concept store specializing in clothing, accessories, and furnishings, which will lend a contemporary and sophisticated touch to the table setting . For information and reservations, call 338 3360722 / 0544 212967 or write to angela.pastore@rdcpdd.com