Wine, food, and ceramics at the foot of the 14th-century Bishop’s Castle, in a unique setting in the world: the Ceramics Quarter of Grottaglie. The art of working and shaping the earth and its products. This is the winning formula that for ten years Vino è Musica has offered to tourists and visitors.
What the tenth edition of the event promises, scheduled from July 23 to 27 in Grottaglie, is a rich and varied program of high-level events centered around wine culture.
It starts with a wine competition for the award of the “Vino è Musica Prize”. From July 23 to 25, in the evocative deconsecrated 16th-century chapel of the Ancient Capuchin Convent, the event activities will focus on blind tasting: the event dedicated to comparing wines produced from local grape varieties with the aim of identifying the labels that best represent the typical characteristics of their grape variety. The technical committee, chaired by the international wine taster, Enzo Scivetti will taste “blind” over 300 labels in competition, evaluating color, taste, and aroma and declaring the winning wines for each category.
From July 26 to 27, the event officially opens to winelovers and visitors. A large open-air wine shop, capable of combining street culture and high-quality offerings to be enchanted by the enological excellences in an exciting and delicious journey to discover the ceramic art in the more than 50 workshops carved into the rock of Gravina San Giorgio.
The event, which over the years has already hosted more than 150 wineries, 40 chefs, and 80 musical groups, for the tenth anniversary will showcase the best wines and typical crafts to create a unique and exclusive event. A true journey through the flavors and knowledge of Southern Italy, thanks to the presence of producers from Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Calabria.
A great novelty for the tenth year will be the presence of the wine shops #Vinoemusica – a place where it will be possible to taste the best productions of the companies: leading wines, prestigious labels. Already confirmed is the presence of the consortium protecting the most famous red wine of Apulia: the Consorzio di Tutela del Primitivo di Manduria which, along with its members, will be present in the dedicated wine shop. Space is also given to natural wines with a “natural” wine shop where attendees can taste the wines of producers who participated in the first edition of “Evoluzione Naturale”: the first Apulian fair dedicated precisely to artisanal wines.
In addition to the “on the road” tasting routes, Vino è Musica also enlivens the panoramic terraces of the ceramic workshops of Grottaglie with a series of taste workshops conducted by AIS and Slow Wine speakers. True multisensory experiences reserved for those who want to deepen their knowledge and skills in wine tasting. Sparkling wines of southern Italy, Apulian grape varieties, macerated wines and those from the Slow Wine guide, primitivo in all its nuances: these are some of the workshops scheduled. A unique opportunity to know the nectar of Bacchus in all its cultural and enological aspects.
Particularly anticipated is the workshop “The Primitivo di Manduria Between Land and Sea.” A tasting, organized by the Consorzio di Tutela del Primitivo di Manduria, showcasing the potential and versatility of the most well-known red wine from Apulia. A true olfactory journey in a territory tied both to the land and the sea where Primitivo absorbs the scents and flavors of its diverse climatic features.
And if that were not enough, for the tenth edition the event Vino è Musica crosses national borders and, thanks to collaboration with the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, will take the five senses on an exciting journey around the globe to discover the flavors, aromas, and colors of wines from indigenous grape varieties selected among the winners of the recent 26th edition of the CMB. Acting as guide on this imaginary wine tour is: Enzo Scivetti, President of the “Blind Tasting Vino è Musica” and President of various international competitions, including the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. Accompanying his story, Karin Meriot, Italy events coordinator of the prestigious competition.
Music will accompany the visitor in this explosion of colors, scents, and flavors of the land. More than 16 groups, spread along the route, will amplify the multisensory journey with rock, pop, jazz, and folk notes. And to celebrate the tenth anniversary, all the bands that have achieved great success with the public in past editions will be “called back”.
But that’s not all. The rich program of the tenth edition promises even greater emotions.
During the two days of the event open to the general public, the Ceramics District will be the “playing field” of “Mondial Tornianti”: the great wheel-throwing challenge, to shape with hands and creativity objects and art forms born from talent and skill. Expert craftsmen and ceramists from all over the world will gather in Grottaglie for the exciting competition conceived over 30 years ago in Faenza.
There will also be ceramic art exhibitions dedicated to wine, educational workshops aimed at the little visitors inside the Ceramics Museum, visits to the contemporary ceramic exhibition “MediTERRAneo,” and over 50 artisan workshops to visit where the hands of master potters, stained with earth and color, have been modeling and painting for over five centuries.
In short, Vino è Musica is the unmissable event for all winelovers who want to deepen their knowledge of the world of wine by pairing Mediterranean gastronomy reinterpreted in street-food style, history, art, music, and culture.
