Sagraitalia along with Vinitours and Livinginlemarche promote the wines and produce of various regions of Italy, always concentrating where possible on food, olive oils and wines made by small artisan producers.
We try to use and promote wines that are produced by organic and biodynamic methods and more recently wines made in a purely natural way. Natural wines are made with the minimum of chemical involvement and normally only using the very smallest amount of sulphites which are necessary to...
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The Le Marche evening that was held at St Benedicts restaurant in Norwich on the 25th January was a great success and proved very popular. All the tickets were sold many weeks before the event and there were 48 guest present to try the wines from Le Marche as well as a typical Italian rustic meal prepared by Nigel from Raffles restaurants.
Stefano Milani from the specialist wine importer Selezione Zanotto came up from London to give a series of taks on the different wines as the evening progre...
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Sagraitalia will be holding a special Le Marche evening in Norwich on Wednesday 25th January, in co operation with Slow Food Norwich and Raffles restaurants.
The evening will be featuring wines from the Le Marche region of eastern Italy and a menu of dishes which are typical of that beautiful Italian region. There will also be a tasting of the wonderful extra virgin olive oils from the Frantoio Montedoro which is located close to the Le Marche region Adriatic coast.
The wines will be from small...
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Sagraitalia as well as organising and supporting local Italian events in London and the UK also likes to promote Italian based businesses who can offer clients different types of holidays and experiences in Italy.
As we are primarily involved in the Le Marche region of Italy we are therefore very pleased to be able to recommend a wonderful painting and drawing in Italy website, http://www.paintingholidaysitaly.com/

Painting and drawing lessons are offered by Caroline Crawford at her beautiful h...
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We at Sagraitalia were lucky enough to visit the newly refitted and refurbished Essentia Relais Hotel in Marina di Montemarciano in the beautiful Italian region of Le Marche last week.
The hotel now offers a high level of luxury and service to the discerning client and is now working closely with Sagraitalia to promote a range of visits and tours of the local area. Several olive oil and wine producers are part of a growing network of small producers who are keen to promote their products to wi...
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Last week Sagraitalia held a series of workshops and tastings in London and Norwich of various olive oils  from Italy and the Island of Gozo. Andrea Tommasetti from the Frantoio Montedoro situated in the region of Le Marche in eastern Italy was in the UK for a week and he tutored the various groups who were present at these very popular events.
The first workshop was held at the FARM shop in Hackney in east London, this is a community based project promoting sustainable living and growing link...
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Andrea Tomasetti from the Azienda Montedoro near Senigallia in Le Marche will be in the UK for 10 days from the 5th September and will be holding workshops and tastings in London, Norwich and Cambridge during his visit.
There are two tastings planned in London, the first on Wednesday 7th September at the FARM in Dalston a local community based project which holds many popular food related events and the second on Thursday 8th September at the Market Quarter Delicatessen in Elizabeth St SW1.

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The Le Marche wine tasting event in Belgravia last Tuesday proved to be a very popular evening with many of the attendees requesting that we hold further similar events over the next year. Originally scheduled to finish at 8pm it was so popular that the tasting did not finish until closer to 10pm.
Plans for a tasting of wines from Abruzzo, wines from Umbria and also wines from Puglia are now well in hand and we hope to host our next tasting in early May 2011.

Having spoken with many of the peop...
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The latest wine tasting held by Sagraitalia is being held on Tuesday 29th March at the Market Quarter, 36 Elizabeth Street, London SWI. The evening starts at 6.30 and finishes at 9pm and has proved to be very popular with all the tickets being sold out soon after they became available.

The wines to be tasted are three white wine varieties from Le Marche in eastern Italy and are produced by three organic producers, Aurora wines from Offida, San Fillipo from Offida and Ripani Colli from Ripatran...
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Many of the small artisan wine makers in southern Le Marche produce wonderful wines which are never tasted and experienced outside of their immediate area. A lot of care and hard work is put into the production of the wines and the producers have a real passion for their wines and the areas in which they are produced.

One such producer is a small Azienda owned by an Italian couple near the southern Le Marche village of Ortezzano. Their Azienda Agricola is called Sgaly and all the wine produced...
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We are all excited to be going to the Slow wine event in Victoria, London on March 11th and we are planning to hold a small party later that evening for some of the exhibitors and members of Slow Food.

Our next wine tasting date has now been confirmed and it is being held at The Market Quarter in Belgravia, London, SW1 on Tuesday 29th March from 6.30 til 9pm. Ticket prices are to be confirmed soon and the wines being tasted are a selection of white wines from Le Marche and possibly also from A...
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Sagraitalia is currently planning to hold a tasting of a selection of wines from the Le Marche region of Italy at a fabulous new venue in Elizabeth Street in the Belgravia area of north London in the last week of March 2011. The wines will be from four of the best wine producers in Le Marche and will be accompanied by a typical Le Marche antipasti.

The wines being tasted will include Passerina DOP, Falerio DOP, Rosso Piceno and Pecorino DOP , all typical of the Le Marche region and usually not...
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