Sunday 29 September, at the Loggia dei Mercanti of Palazzo Andreani (MN), a Festival celebrating the Wines and Flavors of Lombardy.
The Wine and Flavor Festival is a unique opportunity to encounter the food and wine and cultural riches of Lombardy, a region where a myriad of different views, products and territorial “know-how” meet. The event will be held on Sunday 29 September 2024 at the Loggia dei Mercanti of Palazzo Andreani (Via Spagnoli, 46100, Mantua). Organized by the Federation of Wine and Flavor Routes of Lombardy , the Festival celebrates the eleven Routes of the Federation through tastings and tastings, offering an in-depth look at the world of Lombard excellence. In addition to promoting products and local “know-how”, the event will also have a strong social connotation: the entire proceeds will be donated to charity .
During this day, visitors will be able to learn about, taste and purchase the identifying products of the Lombardy region in a location of art and elegance. After the first edition in Broni, at the Enoteca Regionale della Lombardia, this year the Festival moves to the evocative Renaissance center of Mantua, the city “worthy of anyone moving a thousand miles to see it”, as Torquato Tasso described it, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site and capital of Italian culture. Another novelty of the second edition is the presence at the Festival of the Strada del Riso and Risotti Mantovani , in the Mincio countryside on the border with Verona, where rice cultivation dates back to the period of Francesco Gonzaga (1500-1540), and the Strada del Rice of the three rivers , the latest born in chronological order among the Wine and Flavor Routes of the Lombardy Region , based in the Pavia area, in Mortara.
«With this Festival, the Federation aims to enhance the various Lombard expressions , first of all making them known to the final consumer». Says Gianni Boselli, President of the Federation . «It will be a day of celebration, in which the protagonists will be the identifying Lombard products, those authentically linked to the territories that are immediately associated with an area, in a city like Mantua , a true Renaissance jewel famous throughout the world for its its history, food and wine, art treasures and natural beauty, and awarded, not surprisingly, the title of Italian Capital of Culture for the year 2016″.
The Federation of Wine and Flavor Routes of Lombardy will bring together in a single mosaic all the food and wine excellences that co-exist in Lombardy. An ambitious undertaking if you think of the variety of landscapes, places and culture present in this vast region: from the Valtellina Wine Route , with its Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG and Bresaola, to the Valcalepio Wine Route and flavors of Bergamo , with its homonymous DOC wine and its cheeses and the Strada del Franciacorta , a wine which in 1995 became the first Italian territory and wine produced with the method of refermentation in the bottle; from the Botticino DOC wine of the Lombard Hills Road of wine and flavors to the Road of Rice and Risotti Mantovani , with its famous Risotto alla Pilota, cooked by absorbing the water with the subsequent addition of pork pesto; again, from the Strada del Vino del San Colombano e dei Sapori Lodigiani , with the famous raspadüra and its San Colombano DOC Rosso, to the Varzi salami of the Strada dell’Oltrepò Pavese . Also present is the Lomellina rice, with the Strada del Riso dei Tre Fiumi and the Cremonese mustard with the Strada del gusto cremonese in the land of Stradivari . Visitors will also have the opportunity to taste the refined Garda oil, an excellent product of the Garda Wines and Flavors Route . Finally, there will be the Mantuan Wines and Flavors Route , which will offer the public the opportunity to taste Mantuan Lambrusco, Mantuan Hills wines and Parmigiano Reggiano. This is just a taste of what can be discovered in the rich Lombard region.
Information: Sunday 29 September 2024, from 11:00 to 18:00, at Loggia dei Mercanti, Via Spagnoli, 46100 Mantua (MN).
Entrance fee: €5 which will be entirely donated to charity.