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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Sagraitalia together with Selezione Zanotto will be holding a wine and olive oil evening at the Veneticus Delicatessen in the Clerkenwell road in London on Thursday April 26th, the event will start at 5.45 and finish around 8pm that evening.
Stefano Miani of Selezione Zanotto will be hosting the event and show casing some of the fine Italian wines that he imports from italy.Andrea tomassetti from Frantoio Montedoro in Le Marche will also be present and will be holding tutored tastings of some ...

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Sagraitalia with Slow Food London and Norwich held the Libera Terra evening at the Market Quarter in Belgravia, London last Thursday.
Alistair Cameron kindly let us use this great venue to hold our second Libera Terra evening in London and the evening proved to be very popular and the food and wine were well received by all who came on the night. Among the guests were several Italians now living in London who had links with the Libera Terra movement in Italy and it was excellent to hear about ...
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The launch of wine and produce from the  Libera Terra organisation in Sicily is being held at the lovely Market Quarter Delicatessen and wine merchants in Elizabeth Street, Belgravia on Thursday March 15th. The evening of tastings of the wines and produce from Libera starts at 6.30 and finishes at 8.30 pm and is strictly limited to just 24 guests.
Details about the Libera organisation can be found on a dedicated section of this website and we hope that this event will mark the start of a serie...
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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 is pleased to be involved with Selezione Zanotto of London at their next wine and food event in London on Monday 19th January.
The evening will begin at 7.30 and should prove popular as Selezione Zanotto has been winning clients and a loyal following since launching in the UK at the end of 2010.
Stefano Milani of Selezione Zanotto is hosting a wine, cheese and jazz evening at this prestigious Italian restaurant in Camden Town, north London and this is one of many that Stefano has ar...
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Sagraitalia is pleased to be working closely with the recording artist Kirsty Hawkshaw to hold an Italian Sagra event at a venue in Chesham near London on December 8th, part of the proceeds form this event are going toward the Air Ambulance charity in Buckinghamshire which Kirsty has also previously helped with funding.
Up to 60 to 70 guests are expected at the Sagra and the evening beginnings at 7.30 and will finish after midnight with music being provided by a band and Kirsty is also perform...
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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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Sagraitalia was involved in organising an Italian Sagra evening at Creake Abbey Barns in north west Norfolk last Friday night and it proved to be a popular event with nearly 80 guests present that evening.
A Sagra is an Italian food and drink event normally based around one type of food or drink and normally each village and town has a different food theme, such as a particular type of food or drink, lamb, pork, mussels, beer etc.


 
Anna Mosesson the well known chef who now lives mainly in Italy...
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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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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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Sagraitalia has had close links with the Cantina Villa Sobrano in Umbria for several years and is pleased that we now can supply their wonderful white Grechetto wine for our clients and at events in London and the east of England. Villa Sobrano is a small artisan wine producer located near the beautiful city of Todi and they produce a range of excellent red and white wines.
The white Grechetto they produce is a delightful light white wine suitable for the more discerning everyday wine drinker ...
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It has been all go this week with plans for another three separate food events finally taking shape. 
Olive oil producer Andrea Tomasetti will now be holding a workshop with tastings at the Pulse Bar and Cafe in Norwich in September as well as three other events he will be hosting in London while on his visit to the UK.
Andrea runs the Frantoio Montedoro near the Le Marche resort town of Senigallia and his delicious single variety Raggia extra virgin Olive oil is now available in the UK and als...
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Sagraitalia are pleased to be involved with Elliots the new bistro in Borough Market which specialises in only sourcing products from retailers in the Market where possible. In May we helped organise a meeting with the manager of Elliots with Stefano from the natural wine specialist Selzione Zanotto, and a very successful natural wine tasting took place during natural wine week at Borough Market.
We are hoping to arrange several small events in the summer and autumn, including hosting meals wi...
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A tasting of 5 natural Prosecco's in London on Tuesday 3rd May looks to be a very interesting event.
Until the 1970's most Prosecco was double-fermented in bottle and the resulting wine was gently sparkling, cloudy and retained its Fondo, sediment in the bottle.

Selezione Zanotto is holding this tasting at the Wine Wharf in Borough Market, London, SE1 on Tuesday evening at 7pm and it is an invitation only event. Stefano of Zanotto thinks that Natural Prosecco are about to make a big impact on t...
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The Sagra at the Forum in Norwich is now on Saturday 16th April and will be held in Theatre plain next the to main Forum  building.
Several local Norfolk food producers will have stalls there as well as a small number of Italian Artisan farmers with their Olive oil and pasta from the Le Marche, Umbria and Basilicata regions of Italy.
Browns earth shop near Swaffham will also be present at this event and this will be the start of an exciting year of shows and events for this new venture.

Browns E...
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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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