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From 24 to the 26 May, Enofila the Palace of Asti, was held Friend Sage, three days of tastings and knowledge for the promotion of wine as an expression of the man who produces it and the land where it was born.

An event organized by 'Department of Tourism and Promotion of the Territory of the town of Asti, in collaboration with Officine Enoica, non-profit association based in Milan that supports the tenants of the environment and biodiversity.

Three hundred wines for tasting told by winemakers to learn about wine, the territory and its problems. A preview of the events that will lead us to the fateful date of 1 'in May 2015, beginning of 'Universal Exhibition hosted by Milan.

Twenty million tourists estimated to visit our country and who will have the opportunity to know our territory and our productions. A wonderful opportunity to establish trade relations useful for some relief from the crisis that surrounds us, and that blocks our economy.

Chatting in the stands, over to greet friends found, listening to the people who attended the event, I realized how little clarity there is still with the terminology associated with wine (and not only). Mi riferisco alle definizioni di Biologico, Biodynamic and Natural by some considered a fad, while other reputed a real lifestyle.

Maybe too many subdivisions only create confusion to the consumer that, not being polite terminologies, is confused in choosing the final. Wine lovers just wants it to be produced by people linked to the territory and for this environmentally friendly and cycles of nature. A clean and pure wine.

That said, below do a quick review.

• The term Organic Wine means a product without chemicals and with minimal sulfites. Certification at Community of European Regulation 203 entered into force on 1 'August 2012, allows you to sell it as organic and not just call it 'product from organic grapes'.

• But when it comes to biodynamic wine we refer to the teachings of the Austrian Rudolph Steiner. Its rudiments are based on agriculture, which aims to maintain the fertility of the land, which does not require the use of chemistry, following the influence of lunar phases, and refers to wines, limita l’uso di anidride solforosa e prevede l’utilizzo di lieviti indigeni presenti sulle uve. Agriculture and strict attention to the environment and biodiversity.

• Finally, talking about organisms naturali, it refers to a philosophy of sustainable living but not regulated by specifications and standards as the previous two categories. Certainly less extreme than that biodynamics, but in parallel columns to be followed by a careful viticulture to the nature and territory.

Some moments of Vinissage.

Source: Elizabeth Rossi – Thesis Master in Economics and Management Company

Azienda Agricola Villa Job – Pozzuolo del Friuli (Udine)

“My name is Alessandro Job, I 30 years and I love to dream and tell the life and my emotions through wine. This is who I am, in its pure essence and no frills. Why wine? Because some things are hard to explain only with words ...”

I met Alessandro initially on the web, then the person in Milan Food & Wine Festival 2012,  and then, I like it, on the field", when I and Michelangelo Sharp friend I went to see on the farm, or better in villa, Villa Job.

His farm is located in a historic house built in 1637 and purchased by Gregory Job in 1910. passionate by the history which I enjoyed the nicely decorated ceilings, the eighteenth-century statues placed in the garden, but above the wine cellar with a barrel vault with “signs” that the eye is able to see.

Drinking wine in the historic environment is very impressive, especially for a person like me that in these atmospheres travels with the mind.

Sei ettari di vigneto in cui ho passeggiato insieme ad Alessandro mentre lo ascoltavo raccontare le sue scelte di vita. Un percorso che ha iniziato giovanissimo nel 1985, and that has inextricably tied to the land and natural farming.

At dusk we moved inside dedicating ourselves to the tasting of its wines. I write often, and here I repeat myself, I am "woman red texture and character," and I hardly deny. Of course with all due respect for the whites; a good example is his Risic biological Blanc 2010 IGT which in Friulian means white grape, un blend di Chardonnay e Sauvignon.

During the tasting, my attention is directed in particular towards Serious, an organic red wine without sulfites born from the desire of Alexander to produce a natural wine earthbound, a simple but wine…  Serious.

This to me is the wine that grape,  a wine that brings me back to earth, a peasant wine ...