01-04-2013
VinNatur, the event dedicated to natural wines, from the 6th to the 8th of April in Villa Favorita in Monticello di Fara (Vicenza), will host a total of 140 producers from 6 countries. The VinNatur association was born in 2006
In March, almost everyone starts bottling the new vintages and almost automatically they put some bottles aside because they are “those-for-Vinitaly”. Among the automatisms of wine, this great fair has acquired a fixed place. The growing interest for wines produced using an organic or biodynamic agriculture, over the past few years, is making these mechanisms creak; to the point that even at Vinitaly, a pavilion is now dedicated to producers who have certified themselves as being producers of "artisanal wines who express the flavour of the earth from which they are born", namely Vivit. If, in totally good faith, we continue to think that wine should always express, at least tentatively, a typicality, the sense of respect that was hovering during the Identità Milano 2013 congress has led us to be interested in another event which, this year, celebrates its tenth anniversary. Villa Favorita is the wine event organised by VinNatur, the association of Viticoltori Naturali (natural vine-dressers) who from April 6th to the 8th will host 138 producers who work in total respect for the characteristics of the soil. That is to say, avoiding any sort of chemical use in the fields and in the cellar.
Villa Favorita
Angiolino Maule
Villa Favorita Monticello di Fara Sarego (Vicenza) 6th-8th April. Opening hours: Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th April, from 10 am to 6 pm; Monday 8th April from 11 am to 6 pm. Entrance ticket: 20 euros See also: Vini Veri number ten
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