From 14 to 16 September in Tirano will be held the fourth edition of Eroico Rosso Sforzato Wine Festival. A festival-review that combines oenology and gastronomy, culture and landscape. Born to celebrate the most famous wine of Valtellina, the Sforzato DOCG.

The event

Eroico Rosso Sforzato Wine Festival will touch museums, historic buildings, churches, restaurants, alleys, squares and private gardens. There will be three days full of tastings, events, art raids and many other collateral events. The program includes wine labs, sensory laboratories, show cooking, taste workshops and numerous exhibitions. Among the novelties this year, the expansion of the tasting circuit with the stage at Palazzo Camagni for the first time accessible during the event. The Tiranese Ethnographic Museum will be added to the program, which will propose a renewed “wine route.” Among objects and tools of the production of “heroic wine” as well as walks and documentaries.

The program

The artistic-cultural program will offer, among other things, a unique and unmissable exhibition of stamps around the world of wine and grapes. With pieces from all over the world, organized by the Philatelic and Numismatic Circle of Tirano which will end with Eroico Rosso. Among the novelties of this edition the expansion of the tasting circuit with the stage at Palazzo Camagni. For the first time accessible during the event. In addition to wines, as every year, there will be producers and artisans of other Valtellina excellences such as apples, salami, bread, sweets, preserves, jams, grappa to offer the visitor a complete experience of the local food and wine offer.

Sforzato wine

The Sforzato (or Sfursat) of Valtellina, the first Italian dry red passito to boast the DOCG, obtained in 2003. It is the most famous wine of the valley. Fruit of the selection of the best Nebbiolo delle Alpi grapes, cultivated on the Rhaetian side of the province of Sondrio. Eroico vineyards that offer a unique scenery in the world. Sforzato wine will be the thread that unites this thick plot of events that will involve Tirano. “City of Wine” and “Slow City”, set in the heart of the central Alps, between Italy and Switzerland.

An event not to be missed! If you take part, do not forget to let me know how it went!

Good day

Ilde