"Vino in Villa" 2015

COUNTDOWN TO THE VINO IN VILLA FESTIVAL: 4 DAYS OF ART, MUSIC AND CULTURE IN THE HILLS OF PROSECCO SUPERIORE

The traditional event dedicated to Conegliano Valdobbiadene changes its face and becomes an event that combines wine and culture

Art, photography, music, literature, philosophy, poetry and the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore, a wine that is a work in itself, in which thousands of growers devote 800 hours of manual labor per hectare of steep vineyards: these are the ingredients Vino in Villa, the traditional date of May, dedicated to the most loved by Italians DOCG sparkling wine, which this year will become a true cultural event that will embrace the whole territory of the DOCG.

From 14th to 17th May 2015, in effect, Vino in Villa Festival, Art and Culture, will take place in Conegliano Valdobbiadene, touching the Treviso towns of Conegliano, Pieve di Soligo, Valdobbiadene and will culminate Sunday, 17th May with the event at the Castle of San Salvatore in Susegana, a tasting table with about 300 labels of different companies, from large sparkling wine houses to small firms, which will end with a performance of jazz led by two big names like Enrico Rava and Tiziano Scarpa. The theme chosen for this year is "On this side and beyond the limit".

On the stage of this traveling festival, which will unite the world of art and that of wine, there will be some of the most significant voices of the cultural landscape of these years. As a frame, there will be lovely hills, candidates for Unesco, which stretch from Conegliano, birthplace of Cima (great master of the Renaissance), to Valdobbiadene.

After stopping, on Thursday, 14th May, in Conegliano, the event will move on Friday to Pieve di Soligo and on Saturday to Valdobbiadene. In the three–day tour, a busy schedule of appointments will wait, from 4 to 9:30 p.m., culture lovers (all the details on the website: www.prosecco.it).

The Festival – curated by Massimo Donà, Venetian philosopher and musician, professor of philosophy at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and author of the book "Philosophy of wine" – will give voice to leading figures of the Italian and international scene to show how wine can be an important factor of cultural, social, intellectual and human aggregation.

Sunday, 17th May, from 10 a.m. to 10.00 p.m., at the Castle of San Salvatore, the final round of the 2015 edition will take place, where wine and art will intertwine in a unique location: a manor enclosed in a village of the thirteenth century in which in addition to the tasting counter there will be also a panel discussion entitled "Knowledge of flavor" (at 4 p.m.) and two other appointments: at 6:30 p.m., Dionysian inebriation, truth and limits of experience", a dialogue–conference with Carlo Sini and Florinda Cambria, with the participation of Antonio Gnoli and, at 9:30 p.m., the exciting moment "The limit between sound and word" with Enrico Rava and Tiziano Scarpa.

Technical information

Time: Sunday, 17th May, tasting event from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

For information: Consortium for the Protection of Prosecco di Conegliano Valdobbiadene – Tel. +39 347 8989027 www.prosecco.it – vinoinvilla@prosecco.it