Wine to Magic

From Saturday 22nd to Monday 24th November, the Association of Italian Sommeliers is in Turin for its 48th National Congress. Rich is the program dedicated to wine from Piedmont with conferences, meetings and tastings



From Saturday 22nd to Monday 24th November, the Association of Italian Sommeliers will animate Palazzo Carignano and several other historic homes in the city of Turin with its 48th National Congress with a rich program made of conferences, meetings and tastings.



First meeting on Saturday morning at 9 am, at the Carignano Theatre with the National Assembly of AIS, for members only, followed by a conference that will focus on the additional geographical indications of Barolo and Barbaresco, organized by the Consortium of Barolo, Barbaresco, Alba, Langhe and Dogliani.



In the afternoon, the wine festival will move to the Carignano Palace, where they will set up the tasting tables of the latest vintages of Barolo, Barbaresco, Roero, Nebbiolo dell’Alto Piemonte and Nizza. The tastings will be organized from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. of Saturday and with the same timetable on Sunday.



For those who want to investigate issues and tastings, at the Barolo Palace wine tastings of old vintages of Barolo, Barbaresco, Borgogna and Bordeaux will be held (reservations required by sending an email to fabio.gallo@aispiemonte.it).



On Saturday evening the Royal Palace will be animated by WineTOMagic, where the Champagne of labels of some prestigious French manufacturers like Paul Bara, Alexandre Bonnet, Bouquin Dupont, Corbon, Pierre Gimonnet, Lamiable, Vesselle and Vilmart, will be the protagonists, for tasting from 9 p.m. among performances of magic and illusionism.



On Monday 24th, finally, the Congress will be concluded with the conference/analysis Harvest 2014 Preview and the "In Bianco" tasting dedicated to the great Italian and European white wines.



For more details, see the full program and the list of participating producers on the website www.congressoaistorino2014.it