Wine, music and astronomy: "Riflessi di Stelle" at Cantina di Venosa. On 10 and 11 August the Vulture wine tourism event returns after three summers

Tastings of Aglianico del Vulture, and more, observing the sky on the night of San Lorenzo. The popular wine tourism and musical event, organized by the cooperative company of Venosa (Pz), in Basilicata, returns after three summers, with two evenings of tastings, master classes , astronomical observation points with the telescope and three concerts: Ciccio Merolla and the bands Renanera and La Rua.

The evening of the 10th will be inaugurated by a conference on the new "Project for the Enhancement of the Supply Chain", at 21, in the presence, among others, of the regional councilor for agriculture, Alessandro Galella.

Just a few more days for the great return of Riflessi di Stelle , the popular wine tourism, musical and astronomical event of Cantina di Venosa , the Vulture cooperative company, among the most important and most awarded in southern Italy, based in Venosa (Potenza ). The last edition took place in 2019; over 3 thousand participants in a single day.

The event will open on Thursday 10 August, at 21, with the conference dedicated to the new " Supply Chain Enhancement Project ". Participants include the Regional Councilor for Agriculture of Basilicata, Alessandro Galella; the president of Cantina di Venosa, Francesco Perillo; the technical designer Giuseppe Filippi; and representing the managing authority of the PSR Basilicata 2014/2020, Vittorio Rocco Restaino. The meeting will be moderated by the journalist Luciano Pignataro.

The Riflessi di Stelle program includes a daily master class at 8.30 pm (ticket €20, 4 wines to taste); on Thursday led by Ais - Italian Sommelier Association, on Friday by Fis - Italian Sommelier Foundation.

Admission to the event is free, however, to freely taste the many wines on the tasting counter, a €10 ticket is provided for a bib, a glass and three labels for tasting. At the tastings it will be possible to combine street food in Lucanian and Apulian sauce, in the various stands: the " strazzata ", a bread with black Cancellara pig mortadella and Lucanian pistachio; cod and crusco pepper from Senise; local gourmet panzerotti; typical sweets, etc; at prices from 2 to 5€.

Three concerts scheduled. On the evening of 10 starting from 10 pm Malatia Tour in Concert with Ciccio Merolla , Neapolitan musician and percussionist of a large part of the Neapolitan art scene (Bennato, Senese, Gragnaniello, etc). Followed by Renanera , a band born in 2012 in Basilicata with the idea of mixing popular and contemporary music and telling current stories also in dialect.

On the 11th it is the turn, however, of La Rua , an Italian folk pop group founded in Ascoli Piceno in 2009, voted second behind Mahmood at Sanremo Giovani 2018 and present three times at the May Day concert in Rome.

Event updates on the dedicated Facebook page www.facebook.com/riflessidistellevenosa/?locale=it_IT

“ We are happy to return to celebrate this event now in its tenth edition, unfortunately interrupted in 2020 due to Covid – comments the president of Cantina di Venosa , Francesco Perillo -. For us it is an important appointment to strengthen the link with the territory and consumers, especially young people, but also to make our company a meeting point and a laboratory of ideas, where knowledge, expectations, problems and solutions converge on the wine system that distinguishes us ”.

With 350 winegrowing members, 800 hectares of vineyards, a yield of 50,000 quintals of grapes (90% Aglianico ) and 35,000 hectoliters of wine, Cantina di Venosa is one of the most important cooperative companies in the south and among the most awarded in the various national and international wine competitions. Production amounts to a total of 2 million bottles - out of a potential of 5 million - plus 60% of bulk. As many as 21 labels, mostly Aglianico del Vulture, both Doc and Docg