In Florence 2 thousand people for ‘Chianti Lovers & Rosso Morellino’
About 2,000 people participated in the Preview 2022 – Chianti Lovers & Rosso Morellino today at the Fortezza da Basso, in the edition that marked the public and operators in the sector at the return after taxes from the Covid emergency. last year.
The Chianti and Morellino labels to be tasted were over 400, of which 50 percent were new vintages, for a total of 110 companies. The producers of Chianti and Morellino have proposed for tasting new vintages of Chianti DOCG 2021, Superiore 2020 and Riserva 2019, to be released in 2022 and Morellino di Scansano DOCG 2021 and Riserva 2019, to be released in 2022. Gates open at 9am for journalists (more than 100 national and international signatures), at 9.30 for operators and at 16 for the public, in compliance with the rules against coronavirus.
“It was a beautiful day – says the president of the Chianti Wine Consortium Giovanni Busi – because after two years we were finally able to get back in front of the public, offering the ‘Chianti lovers’ tastings of our wines. After two years of restrictions, necessary due to the Covid emergency, it was a liberation for us: work in our companies never stopped, but it could not be shared and this made us suffer. It is not just an economic question, because wine goes well beyond turnover: wine is sociality, it is care for the environment and the landscape, in a word it is a piece of life “.
“The return in attendance once again allowed direct confrontation with journalists, operators in the sector and the public of enthusiasts who many came to taste the Morellino – declares Bernardo Guicciardini Calamai, president of the Consorzio Tutela Vino Morellino di Scansano -. A comparison awaited by a long time, which has gratified us, confirming how much the path we have taken is the right one: Morellino increasingly tells its territory in the glass. May 9 in Scansano “.
The initiative was organized and promoted by Ascot – Tuscan Consortium Association for agri-food quality and realized thanks to the EAFRD co-financing of the rural development plan 2014-2020 of the Tuscany Region (sub-measure 3.2 year 2019).
Source: Press office
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