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Tollo, March 2007

HEDÒS AND PECORINO: THE GREATEST WINES OF THE TRABOCCO.

Two exceptional guest stars will be present this year during the Vinitaly, in Verona from 29th of March to 2nd of April.
And we're not speaking about ordinary wines, but of the two buttonholes of the Cantina Tollo, among the most awarded a price and appreciated in Italy: Hedòs Montepulciano of the Abruzzi Cerasuolo and Pecorino IGT Terre di Chieti.

For this reason, the Vinitaly has reserved to the fans of the vintage bottles and to the lovers of fish, an happening on saturday 31 of March at 02.00 p.m., inside the “Abruzzo” pavilion where, in the name of “Hedòs and Pecorino: the greatest wines of the Trabocco”, the two “bottle-stars” present themselves to the hedonistic oenologists and to the public which are present for an elitish tasting.

In fact, besides the wine specialist of the Cantina Tollo, Riccardo Brighigna, the oenogastronom and sommelier of the Rai 1 broadcast “La prova del cuoco”, Adua Villa and Bruno Verì, fisherman and restaurateur who is the owner of the Trabocco Pesce Palombo, will be present at the event.

The Trabocco Pesce Palombo is a cult place for the lovers of fish: the restaurant of Bruno Verì boasts endless lists (you have to wait almost 2 years to book a table!).

These two guests will pay the tribute to a wine cellar that has won a lot of gold medals (as for example the medal that its Chardonnay Cretico has won at the Selections Mondiales Montreal in 2002).
Also this time the Pecorino Terre di Chieti of the Cantina Tollo will be on the stage because also this wine has won the prize many times.

In order to celebrate the two wines, Cantina Tollo, its representatives and its guests will bring again to the light a tradition of drinking and a culture of fishing disappeared by now and that survive by the trabocco and by the traboccanti of the Abruzzi.

It's an ancient tradition that dates back even to the seventeen century, the age in which the trabocchi, complicated machines for fishing, were anchored in different ways to the rocks and to rugged rivers.
Some of these handiworks, found along the rivers of the Abruzzi, are even previous.

Nobody, in fact, can establish exactly the age in which they are been “put” on the sea.
The Chef Bruno Verì will tell about the traditions of the Trabocco Pesce Palombo in Fossacesia (Chieti) and about the ideal dishes to draw close to the noble wines proposed by the fascinating sommelier.