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All 2012 award-winning wines in a great tasting event

From 18 to 22.

Friday, October 26, 2012, the Grand Hotel Saint Lucia on the Naples waterfront welcomes the great evening tasting organized by VitignoItalia to celebrate the winners of the eighth Wine Competition VitignoItalia. Quality, local culture and new ideas together with an ideal thread all the companies and award-winning wines in May in the eighth Salon of wines and Italian wine regions. From North to South Italy draw drink will do the viticulture in a healthy and innovative: they are relevant companies and small businesses growing, big-name national and niche manufacturers.

The evening of Friday, October 26 will be attended by producers and benches there will be tasting all labels awarded: red, white, rosé, sparkling and sweet wines. Since 2009 Trons farm Bibi Graetz of Fiesole, Best Special absolute red 2012, at Ben Rye 2009 Donnafugata Grand Gold Medal ex aequo with Franciacorta DOCG Riserva 2004 Francesco Iacono Brothers Masons.

The event was created to celebrate the new wine competition VitignoItalia that its eighth edition has been completely revised and enriched, abandoned the idea of ??the prize awarded by grape variety, which inevitably led to the exclusion of wines of the highest level, but not from single grape variety, A new competition has seen a different classification depending only on the type. The panel of experts and tasters at the Technical Centre of the European School Sommelier, with journalists, coordinated by the National President of the European School Sommelier Francesco Continisio, examined about 300 labels and were rewarded wines that have achieved the minimum score of 84 points tasting absolutely anonymous, with samples covered and marked by a code. In addition, three special prizes were awarded to companies that include in their corporate structure to a young person under the age of 30 years, to the best wine ever, the company with the best overall score.

In conjunction with the great wines of VitignoItalia there will be mozzarella di Bufala Campana PDO Consortium, salami Villani, the artisan nougat San Marco dei Cavoti produced by the Provençal and other productions of excellence in Campania and beyond.



The wines protagonists of the evening of 26 October