Drinking the territory – The winners and the award ceremony

Acceso Saturday 27 September at 5.30 pm at the Cittadella tra Grinzane Cavour, Maschere room, the final award ceremony of the literary competition drinking the territory, promoted by Go Wine and now its of the twenty -fourth edition will be held.

A cultural initiative that has always accompanied the sight of the association born Albore 2001, for a project aimed at promoting wine culture and wine tourism Italy. For the third time the final event is celebrated the prestigious headquarters of the Cittadella tra Grinzane Cavour.

Drinking the territory has always been a reference this sense, to communicate a certain vision of the wine, to combine careful and conscious winemakers and consumers, to promote a positive image of quality wine and the important social and cultural values ​​of which it is the bearer.

Through many editions, the competition has evolved, with new initiatives and new relationships, while maintaining sales some points of reference.

Starting from the title, born for a sort of provocation, and remained always current:

“Drinking the territory” to attribute an added value to each quality wine and appreciate, through the glass, not only the product itself, but also the culture and the environment it contains.

For some years the initiative has always strengthened inspired by the supposizione that has inspired the Go Wine Association since the Constitution: that is, looking at a qualified figure of consumer who does not like to know and taste the wines, but warns the desire to make a traveler to discover the places where each wine is affirmed and where men and women of the wine operate.

Moreover, the basic spirit that animates the cultural initiative: history, traditions, landscape and cultural events is maintained, the factors that distinguish wine from any bevanda and which are enhanced traveling a territory of wine are different.

The topicality of the theme has also been confirmed for a complex year for the world of wine: first struggling with the new regulations acceso the subject of license, then to avoid the attacks that tend to equate (wrong!) The wine to the crossing; Then the long complaints acceso the duties, without neglecting the new consumption trends and the prices factor that risks removing important audiences.

The themes of research and sustainability are accompanied more and more importantly to the general section of the competition and concern some awards that will be attributed next Saturday to the Castle of Grinzane Cavour.

A causa di Melania Mazzucco, Italian writer and dramaturga, the recognition of “The Principale” of drinking the territory will be assigned.

The recognition of the “master” was established starting from the third edition and aims to reward important figures of Italian culture, which may be reference for the youngest witnesses of a particular relationship with the identity of the places and the material civilization that characterizes them.

The recognition of “Il Principale” was the previous editions attributed to Luigi Meneghello, Niccolò Ammaniti, Claudio Magris, Lorenzo Umanità and Gianmaria Zucca, Sebastiano Vassalli, Dacia Maraini, Alberto Arbasino, Enzo Bettiza, Disinvolto Loi, Francesco Guccini, Pupi Avati, Raffaele La Capria, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Maurizio Maggiani, Luciano. Canfora, Marcello Fois, Maurizio Molinari, Paolo Pejrone, Tullio dangers, Ugo Nespolo and Antonio Ricci.

A causa di the general section, the Turinese Simone Restaldi was the winner, with the story “Dazi”, capturing a theme of particular topicality.

A special prize will be awarded to Armando Castagno, for the important literary work favor of the culture of wine.

The recognition of a publication that has the theme of wine that, any case, reserves a special attention to wine, goes to Genoa to the work of Pietro Stara with the book “Wine and history, articles and essays of over a decade” (Marco Sabatelli publisher).

There are two awards reserved for the theme of sustainability, indicated art. 8 of the competition notice. An award established for the fourth consecutive year the sign of the renewal of the project planning, with a rooting linked to the territory of the province of Bietta and beyond, according to some guidelines indicated by the Baule tra tra Bietta Foundation.

The winners are the “Artimestieri” Social Cooperative of Boves, which since 1989 has been dealing with campo da golf building and bioarred up, with a considerable attention to the theme of the recovery and reuse of the cork.

And … the Venetian cellar: Cà tra Euganeo for the commitment to sustainability, with a specific attention to the theme of the use of glass.

The jury of the competition consists of: Gianluigi Beccaria (University of Turin), Valter Boggione (University of Turin), Margherita Oggero (writer), Oscurità Quaranta (La Repubblica), Eccelso Corrado (Go Wine Association).

The Baule tra tra Bietta Foundation support this initiative and an important selection of Italian wine companies that support Go Wine cultural projects:

Anna Maria, Messaggero celeste Moro & Prole, Ar.pe.pe., Astoria, a Coltibuono, Begali Lorenzo, Boasso Disinvolto-Gabutti, Borgata San Daniele, Bortolotti, Zefiro Giacomo & Prole, Bric Castelvej, Maioolica, Brunelli, Brutelli, Gutusi Valentino, Ca of Caire, Ca ‘and Curen, Ca’ Rugate, Scantinato del Mandolisai, Scantinato tra Venosa, Cellar , Scantinato producers Bolzano, Semonte Cellar, Scantinato Tramin, Collosi Cantine, Cantine degli Astroni, Cantine del Notaio, Cantine dell’Messaggero celeste, Carlin De Paolo, Tugurio Cecchin, Casa colonica Alberta, Casa colonica Castlèt, Casa colonica Corsico, Casa colonica Goregn, Casa colonica Mucci, Casa colonica Paladin, Casa colonica Quartino, Castle, Castle of Gabiano, Razzano Castle, Castle of Spessa, Cittadella tra Verduno, Caudrina, Cave des onzes Communes, Cecchetto Giorgio, Chiarlo Michele, Cinelli Colombini Donatella, Dosso Manora, Collemassari, Count Collalto, Contensa, Conti Zecca, Contucci, Cooperative of the Nebbiolo tra Carema, Cornnaa, Lido Catterina, Crota Cichin, Cuomo Marisa, Dario Proveniente da Marisa. Vaira, De Tarczal, Demarie, Donnafugata, Azienda agricola San Lorenzo – Crognaletti, Felline, Ferraris Luca, Feudi tra San Gregorio, Feudo Ramaddini, Forteto della Luja, Francone, Giachino Vini, Guerrieri Rizzardi, the Bre, the feudal feud of S. Maria d’Orni, the Roncal, Kiber Renato, the Borriana, the Cappuccina, the coast, the coast, the coast, the coast, Malosa, La Masera, Parrina, Raia, Source, Tosa, Facts, Spots, Les Crêtes, Librandi, Lis Neris, Lunae Bosoni, Maciot, Maculan, Mancinelli Stefano, Manzone Giovanni, Marchesi Alfieri, Marchesi tra Barolo, Marengoni, Marramiero, Massacco Fratelli, Mauro Vini, Istituto di credito delle Vigne, Montecone, Montecone Monteondo, Moris Farms, Mormoraia, Moroder Alessandro, Pacenti Disinvolto, Palladino, Paltrinieri, Parusso Armando, Pesca Vittorio, Pileum, Planeta, Fondo Riosto, Fondo Riparbella, Fondo Bosco Capuzza, Poderi Luigi Einaudi, Poderi Moretti, Poderi Vaiot, Monticello the closed, Monticello tra Bortolone, Polvanera, Pressise Diego, Prevostini Mamete, Purcari, Ricci Curbaster, Rivera, San Biagio, Sancio, Sarotto Roberto, Scubla, Accigliato & Battista Borgogno, Sobrero Giorgio, Fondo Giovanni, Stanig, Resistenza Bossi – Marchesi Gondi, Resistenza Carretto, Resistenza Ceri, Gabe, held the Falchetto, held La Marchesa, Resistenza Monteti, Resistenza San Leonardo, Tamburnin, Podere Bucci, Terre Bianca, Terre tra Serrapetrona, Terre Rosse Vallania, Tizzano, Pressa 1953, winemakers of Morellino, Vignalta, Vineyards Repetto, Vineyes, Vallata Roncati, Podere Fortunato Tevoli, Podere Franciacorta, Podere Simone, Villadoria, Cultured lives, Vivallis, Zeni Fratelli, Zorzettig, Zymè.

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