Natural Critical Wine 2014

Natural, true, sincere, organic, biodynamic, passionate, authentic, simple, rich, human. These are the ten adjectives that the fair organizers love to use to define the wine that is tasted at the Natural Critical Wine. The appointment is at Città dell’Altra Economia in Rome on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2014 with tastings and the direct sales by fifty winemakers from all over Italy. Among the winemakers that will participate, we report the presence of Crocizia, La Piana, Le Calle.



An opportunity of social interaction in a celebration that also stimulates reflection on food culture and on the consumption of our days, characteristic features of the quality of life and local economy.



The event aims to encourage a critical and conscious approach, based on the affirmation of the right to individuality and uniqueness of taste – in contrast to the current market logics that induce a progressive homogenization of the same – and the wholesomeness of the product, enhancing short chain productions, based on natural, craft and sustainable techniques.



Emilio Falcione, one of the promoters of the event, declares: «Over thirty years ago Luigi Veronelli stated that the worst peasant wine is better than the best industrial wine. Today, to produce a conventional wine you can use in the winery more than 300 different products (or legal food additives, usable in the winery to "correct" wine, or better build it). This wine is no longer the fruit of the land, but an industrial product, a commodity that has lost its value as food for humans. Paraphrasing Pasolini, the civilization of a people is measured by the survival of an environment in which butterflies and fireflies live.



We want to bring back fireflies and butterflies in the countryside and peasants and their wines in the cities! In our self–organized fairs we practice the source price and direct sales in the presence of producers. We make a self–certification of our production methods, and of our labor relations. In our wines, in addition to grapes, there are very low amounts of sulfur and nothing else!».



The tastings are open on Saturday, 13th December, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday 14th December from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.



Admission is € 10.



For a full list of participants and more information about the program: contadinicritici.noblogs.org