Congratulations! We have finally cancelled the tradition of having Beaujolais Nouveau delivered and served in osteria Pantagruel. Why?

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Ok, we can’t do much about crisis, but we can probably avoid dedicating all our time and thoughts to the damn crisis. That is exactly why we are not going to cancel a new festival (wines from Volpe Pasini and Viviani), new special menu (from our chef Costantino Passalacqua) and opening of the new boutiquebar Biancoro.

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To many of us the province of Alto Adige is known for its mountain ski resorts. So if you had a chance to try the pistes of Val Gardena or Arraba, or made a tour of Sella Ronda or at least made a bit of shopping in Cortina d'Ampezzo, sure the wines of Alto Adige should be known to you. Particularly the wines from famous co-operative of Colterenzio.

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There are aplenty of words about Sicily on our web-site but yet nothing about a very important producer called Donnafugata. Surely to drink the wines of Donnafugata is better than to read about them. So during our new festival there will be quite a few wines represented: two whites, three reds (including beautiful Tancredi and famous Mille e Una Notte) and a fine dessert one - Ben Rye (this year Gambero Rosso named it the best dessert wine of Italy).

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Toscana, Toscana and one more time Toscana! The new festival is dedicated to Chardonnay (from two very authoritative producers – Fattoria Felsina and Avignonesi) and to Brancaia, a sound representative of modern Italian winemaking.

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We dedicate our new wine festival to the very special producer of Verdicchio – Villa Bucci and two recognized producers from Piedmont: Moccagatta (you will be able to try its Barbaresco of the vintage 1999 from the Bric Balin vineyard) and Azelia (two Barolo ’98 by the glass, including Cru Bricco Fiasco).

Here you could familiarize yourself with the new special menu from Costantino Passalacqua.

Our first wine festival of 2008 could be easily referred to as the festival of the modern Italian wine. All wines are big and powerful, even white ones. For instance, Poggio Argentato from Le Pupille which is a blend of Traminer and Sauvignon is pleasantly sweet and fruity on the nose with a properly luscious body, while in Sharjs from Livio Felluga the cream of Chardonnay is nicely balanced by the raciness and vivacity of Ribolla Gialla. With the reds the story becomes even more intricate. First of all it is hard (if possible) to decide which wine to start the tasting from. The price tags don’t help here, since Chianti Classico Riserva from Villa Cafaggio is not less impressive than neither Morellino di Scansano from Fattoria Le Pupille nor Brunello di Montalcino from Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona. All wines are young but nevertheless ready to be drunk, thus confirming on of the most important features of the modern winemaking.

Besides the first wine festival of 2008 we a proud to present a first special menu of 2008. Obviously the author is our beloved chef Costantino Passalacqua. Just think of the ravioli with goose meat and of polenta with porcini…