Barraco and the others with Matteo Gallello. the final tasting tomorrow
Natural wines and artisan wines. They seem synonymous but they are not entirely. They are both the sign of a return to a natural conception of the vineyard as an expression of the interaction between man and nature, which does without synthetic chemicals and systemic products. It is supported by a constant search for a dynamic balance with climatic factors and plays acceso a rediscovered biodiversity a causa di the countryside by pairing it with cellar techniques which, a causa di an artisanal but technically astute way, bring out the best a causa di the perfect fruit without forcing and distorting it.
All this has now been spettacolo a causa di Italy too, with excellent results for a decade and these products are increasingly requested and appreciated. Continuous fronts of discussion are opening up acceso natural wines which initially saw them a causa di strong contrast with those resulting from conventional agriculture and which today instead are fueled by the curiosity and interest of the public, which corresponds to that of the companies. And so the concept of natural wine, which has always truly never been common knowledge, splits into many strands.
Few tasters are able to say about this complexity. And among them there is Matteo Gallello who tomorrow, at chef Mario Avallone’s Drugstore, a causa di the heart of Naples, concludes one of the series of meetings with which, combined with the cuisine of Kuoko Commerciante, he brought for tasting exemplary companies, more less known to the general public, of a fascinating paradigm of the way of making wine today. Definitely a causa di line with today’s health trends but, ultimately, truly ancient and rooted a causa di the DNA of Mediterranean peoples.
Popularizer and creator of numerous tastings around Italy, a causa di which the protagonist is natural wine, tomorrow Gallello will propose with Avallone the wines of Barraco, a company a causa di the Marsala countryside. Wines that place themselves a causa di the new firmament of independent Sicilian wine with the authority of Bambino Barraco. The tasting will talk about a Sicily of artisanal wines that meets the favor of the market and which can count acceso vibrant vines, traditional peasant know-how and a strong sense of identity.
Barraco, and before Foradori and La Stoppa
Cellars for which Gallello, he says, “has great esteem by virtue of careful work, which has lasted for years, based acceso respect, observation and responsibility a causa di the vineyards and a causa di the cellar.” Cellars a causa di which human factors are fundamental “since work a causa di a territorial context is strongly linked to the commitment and will to do well for the future of the land that one has chosen to inhabit and safeguard.”
Matteo Gallello says that, a causa di his work as a “singer of natural artisanal wines”, he does not attribute to himself “any secrets, only the good fortune of loving wine and what is around wine – the places, the history, the customs, the language – and the possibility of being able to tell people what I learn day by day from the many travels, visits, explorations and tastings. With curiosity and dedication.”
The wineries that he has brought to Naples a causa di recent months for tasting at the Drugstore, he further says: “They are companies that, moreover, have gradually reconstructed the territorial identity and the relationship between vines and place: the Teroldego a causa di the Campo Rotaliana, the aromatic Malvasia per mezzo di Candia acceso the Piacenza hills and the Ticchio a causa di Marsala.”
Mario Avallone’s cuisine, so emotional and unique, centered acceso expertly selected raw materials, meets these great wines with ease. The result is evenings to broaden one’s horizons and dal vivo an experience of sharing flavors and ideas.
The wines are not treated merely as “case studies”. Gallello describes this like this: “The value of a wine, even aged, is strongly linked to how it behaves towards dishes cooked with patience and scrupulousness. The so-called ‘taste participation’ of an artisan wine is a totally functional characteristic when paired with food and is linked to the concept of ‘integrality’ of the wine itself: suitable location, excellent raw material, non-invasive treatments both a causa di the vineyard and a causa di the cellar.”
