“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy: NEW WINE FESTIVAL

Autumn is the period of great specialities from our land: new wine, apples, honey, boletus mushrooms, chestnuts, pumpkins, etc.
Autumn is time of harvests and food festivals to celebrate and praise fruits of our lands and to say goodbye to summer.

Every region in Italy celebrates its own food through festivals that last for days. Let’s go and visit just some of them:

• Piedmont – Alba (September 27th) –celebration of the best wines of Langa and Roero areas;
• Piedmont – Carema (from 24th to 29th September) wite tasting in the “opened cellars” in the area. Piedmont is the land of Barbera wines;
• Trentino-Alto Adige – Chiusa near Bolzano (September 19th and 26th and October 3rd) Wine is paired with local specialities such as speck, barley soup, canederli, sausages, sauerkraut, krapfen and roast chestnuts;
• Veneto – Vicenza (From 23 to 25 October). This is the first National Festival of wine-tourism;
• Emilia-Romagna – Gusano near Piacenza (October 3rd and 4th);
• Emilia-Romagna - Pioppe di Sanvaro near Bologna (October 18th);
• Marches - Monte Porzio near Pesaro (October 3rd and 4th);
• Marches – Treglio (November 7th and 8th) cellars are opened to visitors and wines are paired with local food;
• Tuscany - Impruneta near Florence (until September 27th);
• Tuscany - Vagliagli near Siena (until September 27th);
• Tuscany - Scansano near Grosseto (until September 27th);
• Tuscany – Poggibonsi (October 3rd and 4th);
• Umbria - Penna in Teverina near Perugia (October 2nd and 4th);
• Latium – Marino (from the 1st to 5th October);
• Sardinia – Sorgono near Nuoro (from 25th to 27th September). Sardinia is the land of Cannonau

red wine.