Wine Town 2013

FLORENCE IS CHEERED BY WineTown
Tastings, music, entertainment and culture in historic buildings

The fusion of cultural and gastronomic ingredients confirms the validity of a formula that in its fourth edition welcomes fans and experts of quality wine.

Friday 17 and Saturday 18 May twelve great Florentine historic homes will open their backyards
and gardens for the fourth edition of WineTown, the well-established event that sees
the unusual intertwining of quality wine tastings, concerts and shows.

During the two-day event full of taste, scents and music, the heart of Florence allows you to discover,
taste and enjoy quality wine, listening to the concerts that will take place at Palazzo
Pitti, Bargello and Loggia del Grano, or attending theatrical performances of great astonishment in
the palaces that wind between Via Tornabuoni, Via del Proconsolo and the Oltrarno area.


WINE
Alongside historical brands such as Antinori, Mazzei, Il Borro di Ferragamo, the Consortium of
Chianti Classico, Rocca delle Macie, Ruffino, Davide Bonucci of Siena Enoclub,
selected on the track of "Thoroughbred Sangiovese", small companies will represent
different peculiarities of this historical variety.

During WineTown you can take a journey through the production areas,
accompanied by many small producers of value, with wines of a strictly
native stamp".

The Thoroughbred Sangiovese will also be the subject of two specific seminars organised by
Davide Bonucci in the Palagio di Parte Guelfa (reservations online, cost 20 euro):

Friday, 17 May, at 6 p.m.: "The wonderful versatility of Sangiovese" or the
varieties of this great Italian red grape variety in specific territories: Montalcino,
of course, but also the valleys and mountains of Chianti, Maremma and the Tuscan coast up to
Romagna.

Saturday, 18 May, at 5 p.m.: "Know and recognize the vines. Older vintages of Sangiovese and
not only. " Rare historical bottles by large Tuscan companies from the
60s will be tasted: Badia a Coltibuono, Castello di Monsanto, Montevertine, Fattoria dei Barbi, The
Marroneto and Villa Rosa.

Wine lovers will have the opportunity to book for other two seminars that take place on Saturday, 18 May
at Aula, former courthouse San Firenze (online reservations):
The first, at 10:30 a.m., "Indigenous natives according to the Gruppo Matura", is organized by
FISAR and aims to present the main characteristics of each variety - white, minor Tuscany
Italian and Tuscan raisin wines - and will be led by winemakers and agronomists of the Gruppo Matura;
the second, at 4 p.m., edited by Bernard Conticelli, deals with the theme: "Why to preserve and
enhance rare and historic wines". Speakers:
- Prof. Giovanni Cargnello (Scientific Adviser ofthe National Council for Research and
Experimentation in Agriculture - CRA), "How Italy protects its wine heritage.
State of the art ";
- Michel Grisard (vigneron Domaine Prieuré Saint Christophe - Savoie, President of the Center
Ampelography of the Alps): "How alpine growers managed to preserve their local
wines";
- Dr. Frederick Staderini (winemaker, vigneron Podere Santa Felicita): "Abrostine: the rebirth of
a historical variety of Tuscany";
- Jean-Luc Arnaud Etievent and Daphy (importers of wines of the Mediterranean, the founders of the
Mosaic Wine project): "The commercial potential of native vines on international markets
and presentation of the Mosaic project".
For tasting, eight wines from Italy, France and Greece produced by eight different grape varieties:
Altesse, Gringet, White Gentile, Red Tintore, Abrostine, Xinomavro.