TRENTINO WINE FESTIVAL 2015

From 24th to 27th September the city of Trento will host the "Trentino Wine Festival", organized by the Wine and Flavours Routes of Trentino in collaboration with the Trentino Wines Consortium to enhance the culinary excellences of the territory: from mountain cheese to fish–based proposals, from meat and salami to vegetables of high altitude, combined with an extraordinary variety of wines, real protagonists of the event.

The focus of the event will be the very central Cesare Battisti square which, for the occasion, will be renamed "Piazza dei Sapori". Here, in the course of the four days, visitors will have the opportunity to access the temporary shop of "Gusto Trentino" local products or the "Un Sorso di Trentino" wine shop/bar, to participate in one of the many laboratories in the program, where there are also activities for children only, to attend meetings with producers or exciting cooking shows.

La Trentina restaurant will also be active and at lunch will present a 100% of Trentino menu and in the evening a kitchen proposal entrusted, each day, to a different chef belonging to the Wine and Flavours Route of Trentino.

But the event will actually embrace the whole city, thanks to a food and wine festival that will involve several restaurants and thanks, above all, to "Palazzi diVini", thematic islands set up at Palazzo Roccabruna and Palazzo Thun, particularly representative buildings, and dedicated to wines and territories testimonial of Trentino: Nosiola and Vino Santo, representing Trento, Valle dei Laghi and Garda; Müller Thurgau for the Cembra Valley; Teroldego Rotaliano for Piana Rotaliana and Marzemino for Vallagarina.

The location will house all the labels of the respective wine testimonial with expert sommelier who will extol its characteristics; all products will be accompanied by typical products of Trentino.

Inaugurating the square, on Thursday evening, a curious contest between "stars" will be the champions of Trentino Volley engaged in an unusual challenge in the kitchen: "a finger in every pie" for the preparation of a typical of Trentino dish. Among the more attractive events, on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September "Chef on the road", the contest presented by journalist and wineblogger Francesca Negri will take place, too, dedicated to a selection of restaurants in Trentino that will cook recipes in the streets to enhance local produce, that will be judged by an exceptional jury composed of experts and journalists of reference. In the program, all days there will be "Trento tra arte e gusto": A path that will lead the guests of the festival to discover the artistic and history wealth of the city of the Council tasting the culinary excellence of Trentino.

Moreover, in the final two days the Market of the artisans will be set up, by the Artisans and Small Firms Association.