“What is preparing to be lived, we hope from each Calabrian, in the next few days, from Saturday 7 to Monday 9 June, in the heart of ancient winery, in the culla of the Choni (cousins of the Enotri), magnetic earth and capable of sharing different experiences and emotions, is not and does not want to be only the wine -growing reason for this precious and predominant part of the Magna Graecia; Team that we wanted and knew how to put in place to pay homage, through a prestigious and authoritative brand on an international scale, to one of the wine regions considered today among the most surprising in Italy and Europe; South essence, hosted for the first time among the secular vineyards of Gaglioppo, we begin to fill the image, the meaning and the perspective of development of the true extraordinaryness of our region with unpublished content to Italy and the world, as designed and evoked by its distinctive identity markers (Mid), by everything you can find only here “.
This is what the Regional Councilor for Agriculture says, Gianluca Galloon the merits of the first edition of “Merano Winefestival Calabria – Essence of the South”, which will be held, from 7 to 9 June, to Ciò and Cirò Marina. A three days to discover the Calabrian food and wine excellence, between tastings and insights, with the presence of 171 cellars, of which 115 Calabrians and the others from all over Italy and also from Moldova and Georgia; With 40 accredited journalists also from the United States, Germany, Austria, Great Britain and Switzerland.
“It is here, in Crotone – Gallo says – that over 2500 years ago, Pitagora developed the famous theorem and is here, always in Crotone who in that same era was born the first athletics school in the world, in which Milone trained, the greatest champion of the ancient Olympics. And then, formidable distinctive identity marker of universal value, is always of this land, the extraordinary one, the extraordinary one, In 1500 he gave the calendar to the world by ordering time and also his coeval Giano Lacinio, the one who revolutionized the alchemy.
This is why -he adds -, to be able to welcome today in the territories of ancient Ypsicòn, in the current historic village of Cirò, in the vineyards and cellars of Cirò Marina, the important international food and wine event that since 1992 has taken place in the town located in the heart of South Tyrol, for the Calabria Region it means Give substance also to that effort, interpreted and carried out with determination and vision by President Roberto Occhiuto in recent years, to build, disseminate and gradually consolidate a new and different narrative of Calabriaof that Calabria that Italy and the world still do not expect, as a tourist-express destination, by the decreased and international appeal, an attraction of unprecedented attention and investments and capable of being competitive with its distinctive identity and with its quality, starting from the agricultural and agri-food “.
“With the three days of the Merano Wine Festival in the Cirotano -he also underlines the commissioner Gallo -, we can tell us ready, as a Calabria region, together with the local institutional network and to the producers, but I add together with all the socio -cultural and economic actors of our land, to become ambassadors of those new immaterial, identity and growth awareness, of which we must continue to take possession of each day, in all sectors, from the world of the school. of businesses, to rewrite and relaunch a new competitive positioning together for the overall Calabria experience, the one capable of exciting. Living unique and unrepeatable experiences and of exciting, amaze, amaze, attract and invite to return, body and soul, always “.