South African wines on display in Taormina – Foodmakers.it

South African white wines on phase in the Pearl of the Ionian Sea thanks to AIS Taormina

The tasting will be led by Cristiano Cini, president of AIS Toscana who will be helped by Gioele Micali, expert sommelier and delegate of the AIS Taormina area

The Italian Sommelier Association, Taormina area, surprises once again by providing South African white wines for tasting to an interested audience. The southern part of the black continent is an area extremely fit and abundant in history (the very first bottle produced in Cape Town goes back to 1659) where there are around sixty denominations within the primary system, the one called “White wine of Origin” (WO), which supplies a hierarchy of areas, districts and production locations

designated (WO white wines that need to include just grapes from the particular location of origin).

Following, the multiplicity of Single Vineyards and Estate White Wines that

they originate from numerous production locations whose category depends upon the contiguity of the locations of origin. The most applauded vines of this part of the southern southern hemisphere are, as far as whites are worried, Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. For red white wines, Pinotage, Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Wine and Shiraz.

On the night of June 1st, beginning at 7.30 pm, in the big halls

of the Hotel Diodoro in Taormina, as a homage to this terrific land, an assisted tasting of 7 white wines will happen, 7 picked labels produced in various locations southern African state and from conventional and worldwide vines.

A tasting led by Cristiano Cini, president of AIS Toscana who will be helped by Gioele Micali, expert sommelier and delegate of the AIS Taormina area.

An unmissable experience for enthusiasts of excellent red wine and for those who wish to widen their understanding of the world of food and red wine by diving into the scents and aromas of white wines produced in the other part of the world whose area is surrounded by savannahs, beaches, deserts and comprehend the significance and goodness of

viticulture of this area. At the end of the tasting the typical gastronomic propositions by a crucial regional chef.