MTV Puglia at Vinitaly 2016

Movimento Turismo del Vino Puglia has been leading for 15 years the Vinitaly, the historic event that from 10th to 13th April will promote the national and international wine in Verona.

This important exhibition, that this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, has always attracted buyers and journalists, but also wine lovers and is therefore an important driving force for the visibility of Apulian wines both to professionals and the general public.

Once again the consortium, which now includes 70 companies from Puglia, of which 45 are present at Vinitaly, arrange appointments for promotion, information and dissemination of the wines of Puglia. One of the activities planned in collaboration with the Region of Puglia and Unioncamere-Hall 11- is 'Preview Tasting'. The initiative aims to enable producers to meet 20 authoritative representatives of trade magazines and committee members of the major guides and wine competitions of national and international caliber, which present a preview of the news of its production and special vintages prediction of the official tasting to be held in the coming months. To promote the social activities a special hashtag #Pugliaanteprimadegustazioni.

Puglia will have the plasure to have a specialized traders as guests groups from Canada, Great Britain and Germany. Movimento Turismo del Vino Puglia will welcome these delegations to tell the vines and the most renowned names and to present wine routes.

Monday, 11 April at 13.30 the highlight of the event: the award ceremony of the Journalist Award 'Nero di Troia Puglia Press Tour 2015'. In the Enoteca space Movimento Turismo del Vino Puglia will delivery the awards to Bruno Gambacorta (Rai Tg2 Eat Parade), in the category 'TV and Radio', and Julia Nekorkina (Scattidigusto.it), in the category 'Web' and Francesco D'Agostino and Antonio Pellegrino (Food and Wine), in the category 'print Media.'

In the institutional space of the Regione Puglia, together with the other 'actors' of the wine world (AIS Puglia, Italian Sommelier Association Puglia, the Apulia Wine Women, Educational Farms, etc.), Movimento Turismo del Vino Puglia will promote the public to the wine lovers' offer wine tourism of the territory, through the presentation of food and wine tours and Cantine Aperte, for 24 years the most famous festival of Italian wine companies, members of the Wine Tourism Movement, scheduled for Sunday, May 29, 2016.

Finally Sunday, April 10, from 14, in the hall 3- stand C8 and D8- of the Movimento Turismo del Vino Italia Puglia will present the 'Top Puglia Wine Destination' project, one that explores the proposals wine tourism in the region.