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 Road of Trentino in collaboration with the Trentino Wines Consortium to enhance the culinary excellences of the territory: from mountain cheese to fish proposals, from meat and salami to vegetables of high altitude, combined with an extraordinary variety of wines, real protagonists of the event.

The fulcrum of the event will be the central Piazza Cesare Battisti who, for the occasion, will be renamed "Piazza dei Sapori". Here, in the course of four days, visitors can access the temporary shop of local products "Gusto Trentino" or the wine shop/wine bar "Un Sorso di Trentino", participate in one of the laboratories in the program, where there are also activities only for children, meetings with producers, or attend exciting cooking show. La Trentina restaurant will be active, too, that for lunch will present a 100% of Trentino menu and in the evening a cooking proposal entruste, each day, to a different chef belonging to the Wine and Flavours Road 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 locations will house all the wine labels of the respective wine testimonial with expert sommeliers, who will extol their characteristics; all products will be accompanied by typical products of Trentino.

Inaugurating the square, on Thursday evening, a curious contest among "stars", the champions of Trentino Volley engaged in an unusual challenge in the kitchen: "hands–on" for the preparation of a typical dish of Trentino.

Among the most attractive events, on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September "Chef on the road" will take place, too, the contest presented by the journalist and wineblogger Francesca Negri, dedicated to a selection of restaurants of Trentino that will cook recipes in the streets able to enhance local products, and will be judged by a jury of exception composed of experts and journalists of reference.

In the program, all days there will be "Trento between art and taste": a path that will lead the guests of the Festival to discover the history and art richness of the Council’s city of tasting the culinary excellence of Trentino. In the final two days, moreover, the Market of the artisans cared by the Artisans and Small Businesses Associations will be held.

For more information: bit.ly/FestivalDelVinoTrentino #festivalvinotrentino