24-10-2013
A preview of the 22nd edition of the Merano Wine Festival took place yesterday at Arte del Convivio-Convivium Lab in Milan. The festival will take place on November 9-11th 2013 (plus the 8th, if you also count Bio&dinamica). All details are available here. Left to right, Helmuth Köcher, founder and curator of the MWF, Paolo Marchi of Identità Golose and Alessandro Negrini and Nicola Dell'Agnolo, chef and sommelier at Aimo e Nadia
This year the Merano Wine Festival will crowd the Kurhaus on November 9-11th with a programme full of events. We had a tasty preview yesterday at Paola Jovinelli’s Convivium Lab-Arte del Convivio in Corso Magenta in Milan. «We’re proud», co-host Claudio Ceroni of MagentaBureau said «because we’re tied to Helmuth Köcher by a solid friendship. Before letting him speak, let me say that the collaboration between us and Merano continues and it will keep on growing in 2014: Milano Food&Wine Festival and Roma Food&Wine Festival but also an important event in October, during the fifth edition of Identità New York and, a few days later, at the Chicago Food & Wine Festival inside Eataly’s new location».
Tortelli filled with Piedmontese Fassone ossobuco and marrow with Sardinian saffron and Bonati parmigiano
Among the ten experts, together with Joe Bastianich and Attilio Scienza, there’s also Paolo Marchi, the gastro-alter ego of all the Food & Wine events organised by Köcher: «It may seem banal, but eating without drinking and drinking without eating is restricting. This is why we are happy of all the partnerships that link us, and will continue to do so, to Helmuth». The food part during yesterday’s preview was signed by Alessandro Negrini and Nicola Dell’Agnolo, respectively chef and sommelier of Aimo e Nadia. «Why them?» Marchi explains his choice «Because no one defends Italian values like they do and for such a long time. Nicola, besides, also offers a menu in which first you are guided by the wines, and then the dishes are chosen accordingly». «These are five dishes», Dell’Agnolo points out, «that we have paired to the wines each time following a theme-menu: those tied to Piedmontese wine, or to the concepts of minerality, freshness…».
Marco Cenedese, Mumm brand ambassadorsuo. He signed the event prologue yesterday. The Champagne Maison will debut in Merano
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This article is curated by Identità Golose, the publication that organises the international fine dining congress, publishes website www.identitagolose.com and the online Guida Identità Golose, on top of curating many other events in Italy and abroad