Almost two thousand bottles of Asti and Moscato d'Asti docg and Brachetto d'Acqui docg as a gift to associations and regional and local structures that deal with providing assistance and foodstuffs to individuals and families that the Covid emergency -19 has put in serious economic difficulties.
«It is a small gesture, but it starts from the heart of our rows and is the product of our vineyards that always want to be at the side of those in need» explain Romano Dogliotti and Paolo Ricagno, respectively presidents of the Consortium of Asti and Moscato d ' Asti docg and Brachetto d'Acqui docg.
The first solidarity contact was with the Municipality of Asti which, for some time, has initiated, through the councilorship for social policies run by the commissioner Mariangela Cotto and the municipal project "Banca del dono", the initiative "donates the expense ”Which provides for the collection of funds for the purchase of food. A work, created in agreement with a pool of associations, such as Dono del Volo, Caritas, Croce Rosa, San Vincenzo and Banco Alimentare, which is proving increasingly valuable because the Covd-19 emergency has expanded the audience of needy .
Councilor Cotto confirms: «In our small reality we had a thousand people and families in difficulty. Now there are almost two thousand more. Every gesture of generosity serves and is welcome. "
Volunteers from Asti have already received a first supply of 600 bottles of Moscato d'Asti which will alleviate the discomfort and brighten the Easter holidays of those assisted. In the next few days an important number of bottles of Asti and Moscato d'Asti and Brachetto d'Acqui will reach the Food Bank of Alessandria and Turin.
"The meaning is first of all that of solidarity, so that our wines are not only a sign of happiness, but, in this difficult period, also a promise of hope in a future that we must imagine better than the present we are experiencing" note Dogliotti and Ricagno.
