Poetry Prize Cantina Valpantena extended the deadline

Cantina Valpantena extends the deadline by which to send the compositions to participate in the sixth edition of the Valpantena Winery Poetry Prize by two months. Given the continuing health emergency linked to Covid-19, the call will remain open no longer until April 20, 2020 but until June 20, 2020 . The Poetry Prize , conceived and organized by the Cooperative of Quinto di Valpantena, is dedicated this year to the celebration of the 700 years of Dante Alighieri's death. The compositions must in fact be inspired by verses 77-78 of canto XXV del Purgatorio. It is possible to participate by sending to the email address concorsovalpantena@virgilio.it a single poem , unpublished and never awarded in other competitions, which does not exceed 15 lines . Participation is free and open to all. For more information see the complete announcement on the site: www.cantinavalpantena.it

Valpantena Winery Valpantena Winery Verona was born in 1958 and consolidated in a short time attracting to itself almost entirely the production of the territory that extends between Valpantena and Val Squaranto. Today it has 250 associated farms and covers an area of 750 hectares of vineyards. To these, since 2003, about 60 exclusively oil companies with 150 hectares of olive grove have been added, thanks to the merger with the Oleificio delle Colline Veronesi which gave rise to an important oil and wine pole with a total number of 320 associated companies. The annual production exceeds 9,500,000 bottles for a turnover that in 2019 was 47 million euros.