Open Wineries at St. Martin in #Lazio

Open Wineries at St. Martin in #Lazio. Novello wine and aged wines are married to local products

16th November 2014 – Unique experiences that will develop along sensory pathways to the discovery of the most comfortable and intimate wineries themselves in one of the periods of greatest turmoil

Sunday, November 16, from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm, the Wine Tourism Movement of Lazio organizes and celebrates the new initiative Open Cellars at St. Martin, inspired by an old saying "In the summer of Saint Martin the barrel is tapped and the wine is tasted"; new as the wines that for the occasion will be offered to wine lovers: the new wine and the great wines for aging of recent years.

Novello: messenger of the new year entering the market in early November of the same vintage year and to be drunk at the latest the following spring; It arrives in November, at the end of the harvest with the first fogs and early autumn flavors. It is a fresh fruity wine, tastes like raspberry cherry and other good ripe fruit is a nice bright red colour; it is young dynamic; it is the simple pleasure of drinking and therefore also suitable for a young audience that loves the culture of wine.

Novello in Lazio is very good quality and contributes to the growth of the regional wine. The new wine is ready a few weeks after the grape harvest, this is achieved by a special technique that is the carbonic maceration and that makes it fresh and vinous. According to Italian law, and so that it can be called Novello, the same involves the use of at least 30% of the grapes to carbonic maceration, while the remaining 70% can be fermented with conventional methods. The production method was invented in France in 1934 and took the name of the production area and Beaujolais Nouveaux for several years Italy has also begun to produce arousing interest in consumers.

Lazio will be tasted, with cold cuts, cheese and roasted chestnuts. Unique experiences that will develop along sensory pathways to the discovery of the most comfortable and intimate wineries themselves in one of the periods of greatest turmoil.

Most of the companies listed below offer tasting wines for aging with local products, and so the Angolo dei Sapori will enrich the visit to the wineries that will be as always an opportunity to know also local products.

The participating wineries are:

PROVINCE OF ROME

Azienda Agraria Cantina del Tufaio in Zagarolo (RM) Tel. 06 9524502-339 6380419 – www.cantinadeltufaio.it

Program: wine tasting paired with the company's local products and chestnuts

Donnardea – Az. Agr. Duca Antonio Trasmondi in Ardea Location S. Palomba (RM) Tel: 06 9115435–335 7573789 – www.donnardea.it

Program: tasting of wines in combination with local products. Guided tours in the vineyards in the company of the manufacturer.

Azienda Agraria Casale Cento Corvi Menardi srl in Cerveteri (RM) Tel: 06 9903902 – www.casalecentocorvi.it

Program: guided tours of the vineyards is that the company which will be highlighted during all phases of grape processing: from the collection, processing into wine bottling. Tasting of new vintages. Visits to the museum or the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia (Unesco site). There will be food stands.

Cantina La Luna del Casale in Lanuvio (RM) Tel: 06 9370036–347 8248506 – www.lalunadelcasale.it

Program: tour company with disclosure of the methods of organic agriculture and the various stages of winemaking. Guided tasting of the wines in barrel cellar in combination with other organic products of own production and local specialties.

PROVINCE OF LATINA

Azienda Agraria Cantina Sant'Andrea in Terracina (LT) Tel: 0773 755 028 – www.cantinasantandrea.it

Program: Novello wine tasting and chestnuts.

Az. Agr. Casale del Giglio in Le Ferriere (LT) Tel: 06 92902530 – www.casaledelgiglio.it

Program: visit (about 1 hour per group). Wine tasting and typical products.

Az. Agr. Ganci e Milone in Borgo Grappa (LT) Tel: 0773 208219-328 6411761 – www.cantinaganci.com

Program: winery tours and walks in the countryside between the green fields and the "colorful of Autumn"M rows. Wine tasting accompanied by dishes prepared with vegetables from the organic garden. Possibility (by reservation) to have lunch with the winemaker. Possibility to rent bicycles for excursions into the countryside.

Tenuta Pietra Pinta, Locality Le Pastine in Cori (LT) Tel: 06 9678001 – www.pietrapinta.com

Program: on the Day of Open Cellars at St. Martin the Pietra Pinta company inaugurates a new tasting room. In the farm you can have lunch with tasty pizzas cooked in wood oven and combined with our wines by the oenologist. Reservations recommended.

Secretariat Wine Tourism Movement Lazio

Tel / fax 06 8604694 – www.mtvlazio.it

Circonvallazione Nomentana 288

00162 ROMA