“Osti per una Sera”, the program of meetings with wine producers, continues on Thursday 23 January, taking us to Tuscany, with Stefano Amerighi, winemaker in Poggiobello di Farneta, Cortona – AR
The production of Syrah pushed Stefano to found his estate on a hilly and sunny terrain in the Poggiobello di Farneta area near Cortona, a place which Stefano selected for its geological and climatic features.
Thanks to Stefano’s passion for wine and his interest in biodynamic practices, today the Amerighi estate stands out for its authenticity and transparency, perfectly embodied by the symbol of the company wine, Syrah precisely, whose selections are chosen carefully in the Rhone Valley. In the vineyard, Stefano uses the ancient practices of his ancestors, pressing the grapes with the feet or respecting the lunar and planetary phases, which dictate the natural viticulture: the winemaking takes place without corrective and chemical products, the fermentation goes naturally, in a spontaneous way.
Today the Amerighi company has expanded into a real sustainable agricultural estate, which also produce cereals, vegetables, fruits and animal breeding.
The evening is an opportunity to discover, together with Stefano, Vin des Potes, the adventure born from the initiative of the two sommeliers Basile Passe and Yoan Tavares. Guided by a passion for good food and wine, the two have created an international network of winemakers – which currently counts 11 members, including Amerighi himself – wine producers who reflect the identity of their homelands thanks to methods of nature-friendly production.
23 January 2020
7pm
Fondamenta Misericordia, 2497
30121 Venice
Da martedì 16 giugno Vino Vero ti offre un’alternativa di gusto: il vino mosso con i liquori naturali e biologici di Chinati Vergano
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.