Villa Matilde celebrates the thousand–year story of Vinum Falernum

Hosting the traditional Dinner of the Brotherhood of Falerno

Villa Matilde is hosting the traditional Dinner of the Brotherhood of Falerno on 20th June 2014 at 8:00 p.m. in the corporate center of Cellole, not far from the vineyards where the great adventure of Francesco Paolo Avallone, the founder of Villa Matilde and the father of modern Falerno, began.

«It was our father Francesco Paolo, passionate scholar of ancient studies, who rediscovered Falerno, the wine of the Roman emperors, forgotten for centuries and brought back to life after years of study and research of authentic vinegrowing and winemaking archeology» the children Salvatore and Maria Ida, at the head of the company, explain. The lawyer Avallone, in the sixties, identified some vine stocks of the ancient vinum Falernum miraculously survived to phylloxera and began to be planted again all over the Ager Falernus. Today Villa Matilde is a leading producer of Falerno and is an ambassador of this extraordinary wine in the world that boasts so many affectionate producers and true excellences.

«To host the traditional dinner of the Brotherhood of Falerno in our company, means for us to renew the history and memory of our father, to reconnect the wires of our recent past and to celebrate all the greatness of this wine which today has great interpreters of quality», Maria Ida Avallone comments. The evening includes an interesting introduction to the area and this thousand–year old wine was already known at the time of Pliny, Virgil, Ovid and Horace, followed by wine tastings and a dinner with local products. To further enrich the evening there will be a photographic exhibition dedicated to Falerno by the Food&Wine Blogger Karen Phillips.



The evening’s program:

8:00 p.m. Welcome drink at Piazza Falerno with tasting tables of wines from the participating companies

8:15 p.m. Eleusi Hall: greetings and a short speech on the Falerno Area

9:00 p.m. Falerno Hall:

– Small entrée of welcome:

Parmigianina of eggplants from our garden, ribbons of battered vegetables with Chef’s sauce, Ricotta mousse flavored with lemon, peppers, nuts, morsels of Campania buffalo cheese, pork Capicollo

– Green Gnocchi with Blue of buffalo and cream of zucchini

– Baked skewer of mixed meat with reduction of white Falerno

– Side dishes of the season

– Fantasy of summer fruit sorbets

– Small delicacies

Mineral and bubbly water, coffee

Assortment of bread with nuts, olives, breadsticks of the country, tasting of our extra virgin olive oil



The dinner will cost 30 Euros. Reservation is required.



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