Forlì Wine Festival

12th exhibition of the typical product quality

Forlì Fair, 23–24–25 January 2015



FORLÌ WINE FESTIVAL is the new pavilion at the SAPEUR fair; a separate area dedicated to the world of Emilia Romagna wine to discover the wines that in names, scents and flavors are the natural evolution of a selection focused on the quality and tipicality of food and agricultural products, to enhance and represent the sector of wine production, the excellence of our country. All this, within an inimitable and unique context at national level.

FORLÌ WINE FESTIVAL is organized by Romagna Fairs, in collaboration with the Italian Sommelier Association Romagna that will cure the educational aspect of the event, with the presence of sommeliers associated entrusted with workshops, courses, tastings, meetings with experts and sommeliers, guided tours, events related to the wine world.

The Wineries from all over the region will take part to offer their labels. There will be all four areas that identify the different productions: Piacenza and Parma Hills, where Barbera and Bonarda prevails, the Lambrusco lands, in the provinces of Reggio nell’Emilia and Modena; Colli Bolognesi and the lower valley of the Rhine, where white wines of tradition prevail, and finally Romagna with Sangiovese, Albana and Trebbiano to dominate the scene. To close the regional framework, the Ferrara appendix with vineyards planted on the sands of the Po Delta.

At every edition the wines of a second region will be hosted. This year the choice fell on the Marche region, which will participate actively with the excellence of the lands of Verdicchio, Conero, Colli Pesaresi, Ascolano and finally Macerata.



FORLÌ WINE FESTIVAL IS:

– to represent a moment of meeting/confrontation between producers, fans, consumers above all restaurateurs, hoteliers, bartenders and tour operators, the true wealth of the territory of Forlì and Romagna, to bring these products in restaurants, wine–bars, hotels and more. Joining FORLÌ WINE FESTIVAL also means strengthening the leading role that characterizes wine producers in the international scene.

– to enhance the regional quality products while respecting their uniqueness.

A unique opportunity to explore the excellences of Emilia Romagna, priceless heritage of solid experience handed down through the centuries with passion in an explosion of different flavors and infinite variety of products.

– to consolidate the product identity and recognition, introducing quality standards and production. FORLÌ WINE FESTIVAL is a showcase that can represent the value of products, to offer them for the excellence they are and for their intrinsic value, reaching consumers and the entire supply chain.

– to promote and develop the short chain offering consumers the opportunity to buy a genuine product, without additional cost of distribution, transport or storage, directly from the producer. In other words, excellence, warranty, quality, authenticity of the territory and economy.



AIS ROMAGNA WORKSHOPS AGENDA



FRIDAY 23/01/2015

4:00 p.m. Pignoletto and Rebola: from a single grape variety, sea and mountains in comparison.

Speaker: PICCIONI BRUNO



On a journey of brilliant glasses, with Bruno Piccioni we will travel to the verdant hills of Bologna, his cradle of adoption. Heading south we svestirà of effervescence and the hills of Rimini, warm sun and cool breeze, it will present to us changed identity. With the name of Rebola it shows its strength and its persistent enveloping almond.



FRIDAY 23/01/2014

6:00 p.m. Marche DOCG: Tradition and quality in the glass

It would be enough to go back to the etymology of the name: "mark" from the German "border", to understand the diversity of this region. So far the boundaries stretched of the Holy Roman Empire stretched and, like all the lands destined to live among the borders of other ones, it was a passageway of the products from North to South. Marche is the only region that still boasts a plural name, such is the variety that is alive, even in the wine world. From cool, dry and delicately scented wines like Verdicchio, Pecorino and Passerina, the red ones of impenetrable body such as Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Vernaccia.



SATURDAY, 24/01/2015

3:00 p.m. Native grapes and wines: the added value of an area

What can describe a territory? What identifies and differentiates it? Its people, its products, its heritage: here is the meaning of native. In a word is contained the history of an entire land. And we are the land of the native, with over 600 varieties.

The meeting, conducted by Annalisa Linguerri that with tales of wine, grapes and winemakers will also describe an unpublished and unheard of us.



SATURDAY, 24/01/2015

5:00 p.m. Romagna DOCG Albana: many types and a name to be enhanced

Those were the days of the great Roman and already Pliny the Elder sang its praises. Then centuries passed; 1987 is when the Romagna DOCG Albana acquires the DOCG recognition, first among the white wines in Italy. A story of success, the one of Albana, yet it still seems too early to fully outline a common profile. Will we succeed in this meeting? Glasses in hand, we feel Albana.



SATURDAY, 24/01/2015

7:00 p.m. Bubbles: combinations of high class, how and when to combine sparkling wines

Sparkling wines for party? Not only! Sparkling wines can accompany meals: they are excellent aperitif companions or noble knights of dessert. With Roberto Gardini, one of the world’s most experienced tasters or the effervescent world, we’ll have to arrange marriages of taste, that will please even the less passionate tasters.



SUNDAY, 25/01/2015

4:00 p.m. Lambrusco: territories, types, a wine for everyone

It is the fruit of Labrusca, the oldest and wildest vine. It is the symbol of the opulence of the cities of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where the full of cholesterol pork meats triumph, in sausages and masterfully prepared.

Effervescent, of a purple color that brings joy and conquest, maybe this is the reason why it is also one of the most exported wines in the world. Only with Giorgio Amadei we can speak of Lambrusco and involve you in this part of the world all absolutely typical of Emilia.



SUNDAY, 25/01/2015

6:00 p.m. Sangiovese di Romagna: its potential for evolution

It is long, exciting and unique history of Sanguis Jovis, which from the Roman banquets arrived in the sixteenth century to conquer the center and south of Renaissance Italy. In 1876 in Siena the Ampelography Commission meets to distinguish types, which now only in Italy are found in over one hundred Doc. In 2011 Romagna Sangiovese arrives, a victory, but also a new challenge for producers, who see themselves involved in a new disciplinary. We then share the point with one of the men of Sangiovese, Giorgio Amadei.



VISITING SAPEUR WHEN: From 23 to 25 January 2015

WHERE: at the Forlì Fair



HOURS: Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. – Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

ENTRY FEE: Free up to 12 years. Friday, single ticket ? 2.00 – Saturday and Sunday, ticket ? 7,00 – Reduced ? 5,00 with coupon downloaded from www.sapeur.it – Wine tasting, ticket ? 8.00



www.sapeur.it/sapeur/forli–wine–festival/