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 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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Sagraitalia together with Alistair Cameron of the Market Quarter is hosting a tasting of Biodynamic wines from Tuscany in Belgravia, London on Wednesday 13th July.
The wines include three wonderful reds, Rosso Maremma Toscana and a white wine from the same producer and these wine tasting with antipasti evenings are proving to be a popular regular event.

We also hope to hold a similar tasting of the same Biodynamic wines plus several natural prosecco at the newly opened Browns Kitchen in Norfolk...
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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 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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