With the second appointment of Osti per una sera we will travel from Burgundy to Liguria.
Following the footsteps of his father, an organic farmer, Emmanuel Giboulot obtained biodynamic certification in 1996. Today, the Domaine Giboulot includes 10 hectares of plots from Beaune to Rully, up to Haute-Côtes de Nuit. The French vigneron is part of the association “Renaissance des Appellations” led by Nicolas Joly. In 2014 he risked prison and a fine of 30,000 euros for not having used the insecticides imposed by law to counteract the golden flavescent, becoming the symbol of the split, in the world of agriculture, between the organic and the conventional world.
Emmanuel Gibot pursues his production method based on the stimulation of microbial fauna and the natural awakening of the land. Among his renowned products, we mention three wines of the denomination “Cote de Beaune”, “Combe d’Eve”, “Les Pierres Blanches” and “La Grande Chatelaine”.
Aris Blancardi approaches the family farm after veterinary studies. He began to take an interest in biodynamics in 2004 and has since decided to transform the Selvadolce estate into a biodynamic winery. Located on the sea, a few kilometers from the border with France, the company includes 7 hectares of estate and two vineyards located in two completely distinct areas: “A Ciapissa”, a natural amphitheater which houses a centenary vineyard of Rossese grapes (the heart of the DOC history of Rossese di Dolceacqua); and Selvadolce, characterized by terraces facing south to marine influences, which houses Pigato and Vermentino wines.
16 January 2020
7pm
Fondamenta Misericordia, 2497
30121 Venice
The pride of the Dolomites and the simplicity of a winemaker without any unnecessary frilly bits.
Sign this petition so that Venice does not become the world’s biggest museum, with fixed opening and closing times, where people no longer have the right and freedom to live. This trend does not only affect Venice, but all Italian historic centres.
The court of Venice has issued a decree obliging Vino Vero, a natural wine bar with over 1,000 labels, to close early at 11pm. The reason for this is down to a complaint from the tenants on the floor above, according to whom the ‘noise emissions’ coming from the wine bar are intolerable, to the point of compromising their psycho-physical balance.
The judge’s order reads: ‘the anthropic activities connected with the “Vino Vero” restaurant exceed the tolerable threshold of noise emissions (…) even when there are only two people sat at a table and when there are four people on the premises, the noise emissions exceed the threshold of normal tolerability’.
We are faced with a huge paradox: if just two people sitting at a table having a glass of wine is a problem, then the activity of any venue or restaurant operating after 11pm in Venice becomes illegal.
The message which comes across is that Venice after 11pm should close and its inhabitants should stay at home under a curfew, because then even the normal passage of boats and people becomes a disturbance.