The award that identifies the wines with the highest score in cents in the respective typology went, this year, to five liquid masterpieces produced in South Tyrol, Trentino, Tuscany and Puglia, real leaders of the Italian wine sector.
Furthermore, during the event, the Association founded by Luigi Veronelli announced the activation of an important partnership with the Accademia Carrara , a museum of international importance, one of the main Italian art galleries. From this new collaboration comes the third edition of NutriMenti , a review of meetings dedicated to gastronomic culture that will be offered from Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 October, for the first time in the Orobic capital after two Venetian events.
In this troubled year, the choice of Bergamo - the city where the Veronelli Seminary is based and where Veronelli himself lived for a long time - also represents a concrete sign of closeness to a territory hit in a particularly tragic and painful way by the covid epidemic. -19.
"Exactly ten years after the last time, after Siena, Rome and Venice, the official presentation of the new Veronelli Guide returns to Bergamo, the city where our editorial team operates and the place where the Guida Oro has always been born, edition after edition" he says Andrea Bonini, Director of the Luigi Veronelli Permanent Seminary . «A precise choice, which concludes months of intense work and rigorous observance of the safety regulations that have involved, among other things, our operational headquarters in Alzano Lombardo. Presenting the Gold Guide I Vini di Veronelli 2021 in Bergamo, making the city, for one day, the capital of Italy of wine is an encouragement, an invitation to restart from what we know how to be, do and share aimed at a community that he suffered a lot ».
In this sense, the collaboration with Accademia Carrara is of great significance, a cultural excellence that summarizes the best that Bergamo and its territory have to offer: the dialogue between land, food and culture, deeply rooted in Veronelli's thought and in the projects of the Veronelli Seminary , finds a further and prestigious declination.
The official presentation of the Veronelli 2021 Gold Guide I Vini di Veronelli 2021 will be held on Thursday 22 October at 11:30 am, in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, in the presence of the Curators Andrea Alpi, Gigi Brozzoni, Marco Magnoli and Alessandra Piubello . The event will open NutriMenti , a review of gastronomic culture with tastings, public meetings and events that will allow you to get to know, in a different light, the great wines of Italy proposed by the Veronelli Seminary and the extraordinary artistic heritage kept by the Carrara Academy .
Numerous and authoritative the adhesions of the speakers, among others Patrizio Roversi , television presenter and specialist on agri-food issues; Luca Damiani , musicologist, writer, host of Rai Radio 3 ; Aldo Colonetti , historian and philosopher of art, architecture and design; Alberto Capatti , historian of gastronomy, president of the Scientific Committee of the Luigi Veronelli Italian High School of Gastronomy and of the Gualtiero Marchesi Foundation ; Daniele Cassandro , Extra Editor of Internazionale .
There will be occasions to taste, after today's press event, the Best Tastings 2021: the Trento Extra Brut Riserva Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore 2009 by Ferrari F.lli Lunelli , Best Sparkling Wine; Colterenzio's Alto Adige Riserva LR 2016, Best White Wine; Apollonio's Eighteen Fanali Salento Rosato 2017, Best Rosé Wine; the Brunello di Montalcino Madonna delle Grazie 2015 by Il Marroneto , Best Red Wine; and the Vin San Giusto Toscana Bianco Passito 2012 from San Giusto a Rentennano , Best Sweet or Meditation Wine.
