Blues & Wine Awards 2023-24 and winners ranking

2 extreme days and 2 amazing suppers closed the XXI Edition of the Blues & Red Wine Soul Celebration and the XVII Edition of the Awards, with the adjacent yearly conference on ampelography and research study of the Italian vineyard. Now we are currently dealing with summer season 2024. After years and nights that had actually just recently stayed well-known in the very best dining establishments of Castelbuono, the well-known Blues & Red wine Awards returned home, to their native Agrigento and it was right away a riot of flavours, colours, conferences and food and white wine culture.

The biggest Red wine Music Celebration worldwide, likewise including the hinterland and towns such as Racalmuto – home of the Leonardo Sciascia Structure – and Milena, where the “Seminar” was commemorated with the very first supper at the “La Lanterna” dining establishment, has actually closed therefore a XXI Edition that will definitely stay in the record, as one of the most stunning and extreme, in spite of the many problems that the developer of the occasion and soul of the entire, that is, the soul of the Blues, Joe Castellano, needed to get rid of.

Lots of lovers and gastronauts crowded the last suppers, in a distinct environment of terrific heat and sober beauty, for the night that granted the Blues & Red Wine Awards. On the 2 nights and in the Yearly Ampelography Conference, all rewards were granted for: Red wines, Oils, Cellars, Oil Mills, however likewise characters from the fields of Music, Home Entertainment, Catering, Culture and Sciences, as has actually now held true for the 17th yearly occasions.

If for television and Radio programs, the videos of the caring greetings forwarded by the stunning award winners Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Giulia Teri got here, for the Oenological Sciences, throughout the Conference, the intervention of the nearly ninety-year-old Prof. Mario Fregoni who highlighted the risks of methanol for brand-new resistant hybridizations.

Likewise throughout the conference, similarly essential were the interventions proposed by Dr. Rosario Lentini and the oenologist Tonino Guzzo, who offered an introduction of fungal illness; that of Prof. Vincenzo Russo who, as constantly, very well exposed the actions of Marketing and what is activated at a cerebral level by the options that are made from each item; that of the Director of the VINUP papers, Giornale Vino Cibo and terrific AIS professional, Luigi Salvo, who with Joe Castellano and Vincenzo Russo, talked about why there is a clear decrease in white wine intake, in spite of the topic being spoken about extremely extensively in every corner of the world; and lastly that of Joe Castellano himself, who offered some little sneak peeks of the work he is developing, who will attempt to reword a little the history of a vine such as “Calabrese” or “Nero d’Avola” whatever you choose, which might have had among its locations of origin and extreme growing in the lands of Racalmuto, currently in the times of ancient Akragas. Lastly, the contribution of Dr. Roberta Garibaldi, President of the Italian Food and Red Wine Tourist Association, was likewise essential, who throughout Milena’s “Seminar” clarified the significance of white wine tourist in such a tough minute for Italian farming and showed the growth of the sector over the last twenty years.

Lots of exceptional visitors signed up with nearly all the visitors pointed out above on the last night of awarding of the 2023 Awards. Therefore, the Celebration taped the existence of Giuseppe Mazzocolin, who gathered the “Blues & Wine Rack of the Year” award for his remarkable “Cantine Felsina” of Castelnuovo in Berardenga (Siena) and who after the vote of the 9 finalist red wines, he likewise won top place in the Red Red Wine Choice, with his exceptional extremely Tuscan “Fontalloro 2019”.

Another renowned existence was that of Stefano Bottega, owner of the extremely well-known Champagne and Spirits business of the very same name, who gathered the Award for “exceptional bubbles” which went to his “Bottega Gold Brut 2021” which was likewise the most intoxicated white wine by youths throughout the summer season occasions of the Celebration. Another winner for his exceptional bubbles was the South Tyrolean Josef Reiterer – client of “Arunda Vivaldi” – who just for an extremely brief time did not play in his 5th last this year, after having actually won 4.

Likewise present was Chiara Planeta who, for Alessio Planeta (hectic abroad), gathered the “Blues & Red Wine Character of the Year” plaque, likewise offered the election gotten by the well-known “Red wine Lover” publication. The Menfi business likewise gets the “Topazia and Duca Enrico” plaque which goes to the historical households of Italian white wine. The very same plaque went to the similarly present Enrica Spadafora, owner with her daddy Francesco of the Principi di Spadafora business and who above all took home top place in the Choice of Whites, for her “Principe G 2019” (Pure Grillo) and the unique reward “The Culture of Red Wine … Red Wine for Culture”, which the Celebration has actually constantly used in memory of his good friend Luigi Veronelli. This last reward likewise went to the Assuli business of Mazara, which was a finalist in the Rossi Choice and which was gathered by the Commercial Director, Sergio Ardito.

However the DOC Monreale, in addition to the affirmation of the Principi di Spadafora business, likewise wins awards in other choices, thinking about that the amazing Classic Technique Champagne “Renèe 2016” by Feudo Disisa, wins top place in the bubbles and likewise the reward “Eleganza”, along with the remarkable “Kaid Vendemmia Tardiva 2018” (from Syrah) by Alessandro di Camporeale which won the Dessert Red wine Choice and the “Eleganza” award, together with the fantastic Moscato Fiori d’Arancio Spumante, from Maeli business (Veneto), winner in 2022.

However Feudo Disisa likewise took 2nd location in the “Whites” with the acclaimed “Lu Bancu 2022” (Catarratto 100%), as did Enrica Spadafora with her homonymous Spumante Metodo Classico 2018, totally from Grillo. In the “Rossi”, nevertheless, the 2nd location of the exceptional “3TINTO Riserva 2019” from the “Cà Avignone” business of Teolo – Colli Euganei (Veneto) is totally should have, which wins the 5B and likewise the “Eleganza” award “. Last reward of the “Eleganza” series, to Carlo Hauner and his “Malvasia Passita 2020”, which likewise won the reward devoted to the historical households of white wine.

Amongst the jurors, in addition to President Joe Castellano, Luigi Salvo and Vincenzo Russo, it deserves discussing the extremely welcome existence of Claudio Porchia, President of the Tavolozza Restaurants Association, reporter of the prominent Food and Travel publication “TRAVEL EAT” and Artistic Director of the Alassio Flower Food Celebration.

The very first BOP AWARD devoted to oil business likewise occurred. The following business were granted: Cantine Felsina, Feudo Disisa, Principe di Aragona, Officine di Terra and Serrone. All the business provided really exceptional items. Lastly, for catering, the dear Lillo Raimondi of the “La Lanterna” dining establishment in Milena (CL), where the dinner-symposium occurred, was granted and the Chef Vincenzo Ravanà, of the “Aguglia Persa” dining establishment in Agrigento, was valued, home of the attractive and interesting Last Night of the Blues & Red Wine Awards.

For That Reason, the 32 red wines that were chosen were all tasted, to the terrific complete satisfaction of the whole public, along with of Joe Castellano.

” It was a really frustrating 2 days … Joe informs us. We closed with 2 amazing nights and a conference that was evaluated by all those present as extremely intriguing and worthwhile of terrific attention. It’s an embarassment that a number of the regional manufacturers were missing out on, while there were individuals who came particularly from Ragusa, Syracuse, Palermo and even Tuscany. We bring scholars of the greatest level and global standing here every year. It’s a genuine pity not to make the most of this tremendous chance that we offer to operators, specifically in the city. My unique thanks to the Sciascia Structure and the Sciascia household, for the chance and the hospitality they offered us. It would be great to calendar this high clinical minute every year, at that place. We believe that the last rankings of Red wines and Oils definitely show the worths in the field. However a minimum of all 32 red wines chosen and which then got our greatest Grand Reference brackets might all have actually should have a location in the last. Now we need to right away resume work for the XXII Edition. The partnership of everybody and the assistance of personal people and bodies accountable for the areas are essential, similar to Blues & Red wine they have an enormous chance for development and traveler and financial advancement. Those who have actually comprehended this in the last few years have actually just had tremendous outcomes …”

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Blues & Red Wine Soul Celebration

President and Artistic Director

Dr. A. Joe Castellano

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