Spanish–Sardinian Forum on the culture of wine

Three days dedicated to the comparison among the Sardinian wineries and the “bodegas”, selected in the most prestigious areas within the Spanish wine-producing field: free and guided degustations, tastings of meats and cheese, workshops and discussions with oenologists and owners of wineries.

Here is a taste of the wines as protagonists:

Vermentino, Bovale, Vernaccia, Nasco, Malvasia, the great Carignano and its homologated Carinena, and obviously the Cannonau with its “Spanish version”: Garnacha.

About ten are the present companies:

Gabriele Palmas of Sassari, Calasetta Winery, Quartu Sant’Elena Wineries, Orro of Tramatza Wineries, Pisoni Winery of Usini and finally the Zicca Vineyards and Salumificio Villagrande of Villagrande Strisaili. Representing Spain, you find “las bodegas”: Vitivinos of Villamalea Albacete, Abatxerra of Villamarinque Ciudad Real, Alboloduy of Almeria, Castiblanque of Campo de Criptana Ciudad Real, and the Belloterra hams of Cordoba.

“To be able to establish itself in the global market, the quality of production is not enough: internationalization and innovation are essential, basic elements for promoting the excellence of local wine. The event is hosted in a territory, that of Quartu Sant’Elena, which boasts a wine reality all to be enhanced”, the French oenologist Lucien Angei observes, coordinator of numerous debates in the program. For this reason, the Forum will attempt to lay the foundations for future cooperation projects.

“It is important to stimulate the emergence of enterprise networks by taking advantage of the wealth offered by the biodiversity of Sardinia, which proves the ancient origins of our wine”, Gianni Lovicu of Agris Sardinia Agency says.