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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Sagraitalia with Slow food Norwich are holding an olive oil workshop at the Farm London on Wenesday 7th September with a tasting and talk by Andrea Tomasetti from Frantoio Montedoro in Senigallia, Italy.
Farm London is kindly hosting the event which will also include a tasting of some of the wonderful Le Marche red wines to accompany the olive oil and small selection of Farm snacks.
The community based FARM project in Dalston, north London was launched in 2010 to bring farming into the city of ...
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Creake Abbey studios in north west Norfolk is the setting for our autumn Sagra event on Friday October 7th. Creake Abbey has already built a reputation for holding prestigious and popular food events in this part of East Anglia as well as also having won the EDP Best farmers Market award in 2010.
The popular village of Burnham market is just over a mile away from Creake Abbey and the north Norfolk coast which is extremely popular with holiday makers an week enders is only 3 miles to the north....
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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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Sagraitalia along with Olivaverde will be holding tastings of Italian and Maltese olive oils in London, Norwich and Kings Lynn in the summer and autumn of 2011. The first is to be held in Belgravia in early May possibly with the co operation of Slow Food London, with the following workshop to be held in Norwich in the last week of May.

The olive oils will come from the Le Marche, Umbria, Tuscany, Puglia and Abruzzo regions of Italy and from the Island of Gozo which is part of the Maltese Islan...
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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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It has been a busy few weeks for us at Sagraitalia and at last we are in a position to start booking venues for our exciting Autumn and Winter food and Italian events in London and eastern England.  In early October there will be an Italian style Festa and Sagra in Hackney in east London and this has already roused a lot of interest from local residents and businesses as well as our many friends who wish to attend.

Next spring there will be the opening of Browns Earth Shop and Farmers Market i...
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