“Dolce Vita in Expo Dubai”: an exclusive documentary on the main characters of the cuisine and bar world in Dubai and on how the “Dolce Vita” is the leit motiv on the tables of Expo 2020.
Let two chefs, Vito Mollica (ex Four Seasons Hotel Firenze) and Beatrice Segoni (ex BSJ e Konnubio), and two bartenders, Dario Schiavoni (Bulgari Dubai) and Francesco Galdi (Buddha Bar) guide you through the Dolce Vita.
And when talking about Dolce Vita, let’s talk about Prosecco DOC: the most famous Italian bubbles have accompanied the interviews, as a pairing to the dishes and as ingredients in the cocktails.
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Best Commercial. Best Micro Short. Best Experimental Short, 2 times. Grand Jury Award.
If you’re asking what list is this, the answer is quite easy: those are the prizes won by “The Italian Genio“, the fashion film realized by Consorzio di Tutela del Prosecco DOC and Tuorlo Magazine.
A sperimental video that celebrates people, places and atmospheres of one of the most renowned and appreciated Italian excellences: Prosecco DOC.
The film recalls the most evocative images tied to Prosecco DOC, such as the ever-present bubbles and the iconic pop of the bottle, mixing them with other worlds, not always immediately connected to the wine world. The ambitious initiative underlines the synergy between Prosecco DOC with lifestyle and fashion, getting inspiration from their languages thanks to the enlightened direction of Wayne Maser, worldwide famous photographer and director particularly connected with the fashion world.
The international prizes the film has obtained are many: “The Italian Genio” is a winner in the “Best Commercial” category at the New York International Film Awards, it’s “Best Experimental Short” at LA’s Global Film Festival Awards and a finalist in “Best Experimental Short & Best Micro Short” at the Toronto Independent Film and at the Grand Jury Award in New York’s Oniros Film Awards.
The film is part of a bigger project: a shot cut has debuted in the cryptoart world. Rewriting the branded content rules, “The Italian Genio” has been certified and protected by a “Non-Fungible Token” (NFT), a certificate that makes the digital cut a unicum, a real piece of art. Through a digital signature that certifies the property of the piece, with precise and specific information, such as the owner and the seller, the originality of the piece it easily recognized and confirmed.
The certificate has given the possibility to sell “The Italian Genio” as physical piece of art: on 12th October it was included in a charity auction organized by Christie’s at the Principe di Savoia Hotel in Milan, during the event “La Vendemmia” by MonteNapoleone District. The whole profit was donated to Dynamo Camp, a non-profit organization based in Tuscany and commited in recreational therapy. It hosts children for their holidays and free time, during therapy or after hospitalization.
Prosecco DOC and Casanova Opera Pop: Italian bubbles, culture, and more POP than ever in the musical by Red Canzian
The Prosecco DOC Consortium has always supported the cultural world in all its expressions, increasing its commitment over the years to activities related to visual arts, music, and entertainment, as well as to the museum and fashion fields. The Consortium has thus created a network of connections in order to enhance the Italian Genio for which it is renowned throughout the world.
One of the latest partnerships is with the colossal Casanova Opera Pop. The fine Prosecco DOC bubbles are partner and Official Sparkling Wine of the magnificent show written and produced by Red Canzian and inspired by the bestseller by Matteo Strukul, “Giacomo Casanova – la sonata dei cuori infranti”(“ Giacomo Casanova – The sonata of the broken hearts”)
For this special occasion, Prosecco DOC designed an exclusive bottle that depicts Casanova and the beloved Francesca in a romantic dance in an illustration made by the artist Milo Manara.
After a successful debut in Venice, with three consecutive nights sold out at the historic Malibran Theater, the tour will run until March with the bottles of the Special Edition Prosecco DOC accompanying the Casanova Opera Pop cast in the next tour stages in the Italian cities of Bergamo, Udine, Milan, Treviso and Torino.
“With this special bottle – explains Stefano Zanatte, President of Prosecco DOC Consortium – the Prosecco DOC Consortium continues the celebrations for the 1600th anniversary since Venice founding, an emblematic city for our designation with which we have been carrying out cultural high-level events for years in line with the Consortium’s promotion activities ranging from sport to culture in all its form.”
Casanova, created by Canzian over the last two years, is the first unprecedented musical to debut since the reopening of the theaters. The musical is a huge event with more than 30 scene changes, designed to have an immersive effect, 120 costumes inspired by eighteenth-century Venice, and as many as 35 unreleased songs and original artwork specifically created by Milo Manara.
“In the excitement of these last few days of rehearsals before debuting in Venice, in a sold-out theater for three evenings which demonstrates how much we all missed the stage,” says Red Canzian “I look at our show as a strongly desired son, who wonderfully grows day after day and whom I can’t wait to show the world, wishing ‘him’ a long and satisfying life.”
“For the first time Prosecco DOC Consortium designs a bottle with a label exclusively dedicated to a show,” observes the President Stefano Zanette “and it is no coincidence that it has decided to do so for a musical created and produced by Red Canzian, a Treviso native who– I hope he’ll forgive me for what I am saying – as the Prosecco, is enjoyed by an international, transversal, and above all, cross-generational audience. Both are loved by new teenagers but also previous generations who continue to get fascinated by the classic but also the new productions. Therefore I’d like to toast the show with a glass of classic or rosé bubbles, wishing all the success it deserves!”
Venice, queen of the seas, has come to the end of its millennial history.
Between the liquid mirrors of the canals and the velvet curtains of the theatres, life smiles by day and catches fire by night…
Prosecco DOC is Partner and Official Sparkling Wine of Casanova OperaPop, musical and first soloist theatre piece by Red Canzian.
The new kolossal, already sold out in the first dates and touring in the main italian theaters until 13th March 2022, has been written in the past two years, during which Canzian was unvoluntarily far from the scenes.
Casanova is the first original musical to debut after the reopening of the theaters, and what better company for such a show than the most loved sparkling wine in the world?
A cast with 21 extraordinary performers, directed by Emanuele Gamba, will bring on stage 18th Century Venice with the young Giacomo Casanova, one of the most romantic, rebel and fascinating characters of the Serenissima. Between intrigues and adventures, the ironic and irreverent Venetian will show himself as a democratic libertarian, valorous defender of the Repubblic and finally in love with the young Francesca Erizzo, enchanting and determined.
To celebrate this magnificent show, a special Prosecco DOC bottle has been designed with the original artwork by cartoonist Milo Manara.
Casanova OperaPop has debuted in Teatro Malibran in Venezia on 21st January.
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Prosecco DOC, the sparkle of MotoGP™ and WorldSBK, is confirmed as Official Provider for the FIM Awards 2020-2021. Joining the event after its participation to the 2016 Berlin edition, Prosecco DOC has been under the spotlight in the FIM Awards, having designed a very special and exclusive label to celebrate this occasion.
The guests had the chance to taste its delicious bubbles during the FIM General Assembly cocktail, during the media event at the Cars Collection of HSH the Prince of Monaco and, finally, during the FIM Awards ceremony and closing party, that took place at the world-famous Jimmy’z nightclub.
The bubbles of the Prosecco DOC Consortium play a main role in every post-race celebration on the podiums and in the paddocks: it has been Official Supplier of WorldSBK since 2013 and of MotoGPTM since 2019 and for the upcoming three years.
Stefano Zanette, President of Prosecco DOC Consortium, commented: “Prosecco DOC is the perfect wine to celebrate every sport emotion. After years in successful partnerships with WorldSBK and MotoGPTM, we are glad to join once again the FIM Awards and honour together the motorcycling world. We are pleased to toast also in this prestigious occasion all the champions of this sport with this special edition label of Prosecco DOC.”
Refined, surprising, authentic, convivial, creative, contemporary, lively, trendy, elegant.
An adjective for each one of the 9 provinces of the DOC Prosecco: those are the ingredients chosen for the series “Prosecco DOC Dreamland, a production by Wine and Travel Italy, to narrate the territory where our beloved bubbles are born.
Let us guide you in a dance to discover a unique Dreamland.
Venice is elegant
Treviso is contemporary
Padova is convivial
Belluno is surprising
Vicenza is refined
Pordenone is creative
Gorizia is authentic
Trieste is lively
Udine is trendy
The word “sustainability” represents the essence of the way of working that is necessary to ensure a future in balance with nature and society. We have learned to recognize its complexity, to identify its components, and to pronounce it with increasing urgency of practical application. Especially in the last thirty years: starting from 1992, in which the UN held its first official Conference on the environment, inviting the creation of “a development model capable of ensuring the satisfaction of the needs of the present generation without compromising the possibility of future generations to create their own “, the word sustainability has become a key point of productive life: for people, for the environment and the territory, for companies and above all for the countries themselves.
Whether on small or large scale, it has ceased to be a simple invitation to become a list of good practices to be applied, perfected and adapted to individual needs. A clear example of the will and tenacity to achieve high levels of sustainability is represented by the Consorzio di Tutela del Prosecco DOC, one of the first entities to address this issue at the denomination level and not at the level of individual companies.
In 2018, the Consorzio Prosecco DOC, five member companies, the University of Padua and specific professional figures launched, thanks to funding from the Veneto Region, the PRO.SECCO DOC project, acronym for the Italian words Programma della Sostenibilità E del Controllo della Competitività della filiera vitivinicola Prosecco DOC (Sustainability And Control Program Competitiveness of the Prosecco DOC wine chain), with the aim of testing the most stringent certification standards of environmental, social and economic sustainability. Strategic management to create the tools and develop the skills necessary to achieve maximum sustainability of the entire Prosecco Denomination, thanks to the progressive transfer of know-how to at least 60% of the denomination’s production chain.
The viticultural and processing companies have started, through precise IT tools, a system for monitoring and collecting data along the business management processes, which allows to calculate carbon and water footprints. Furthermore, among the environmental indicators, that of the biodiversity of water, air and soil will not be lacking. In addition to purely environmental factors, practices towards employees, local communities and suppliers will also be assessed, adopting a path of professional growth for operators to achieve ever greater competitiveness in our sector from an environmental and social point of view, while maintaining its economic value.
All this will lead to the preparation of the “Sustainability Report” of the companies, of the product and, as far as we are concerned – thanks to an innovative system of information flow – of the territory, in order to be able to certify ourselves as a “Sustainable Denomination”.
It is now an inescapable fact that the future of tourism must be sustainable and responsible. Prosecco DOC embraces this trend and shines a spotlight on accommodation facilities within its production area that have chosen the nature-friendly way of tourism. The Prosecco DOC region boasts many examples of this and Adua Villa takes us on a tour of some of these original locations, often off the beaten track, where comfort and environmental protection go hand in hand.
Zero impact and sustainability are the values that guide those who have conceived and built these locations: objectives that are at the very heart of the Prosecco DOC Rosé philosophy.
DOLOMITI VILLAGE
Built with natural materials and entirely eco-friendly, Dolomiti Village is the ideal place for those seeking to enjoy nature in unspoilt surroundings. We are in Comeglians, surrounded by a centuries-old forest and the peaks of the Carnic Alps. Those who opt for a vacation here know that their presence will not disturb the environment. With its solar panels, complete water recycling, zero use of plastic or chemicals, Dolomiti Village is the perfect place for those who love to escape from everyday life and spend time in close contact with nature.
Adua Villa talks to Silvano, the creator of Dolomiti Village. Silvano has realised his dream of building an eco-sustainable village in a fairy-tale setting, where time seems to belong to another dimension. It is the ideal place to toast with Prosecco DOC Rosé.
LAGUNA DI VENEZIA
Prosecco Doc Rosé loves those who respect and protect the rivers and seas. The Venetian lagoon, a world heritage site since 1987, is a fragile ecosystem that can only be visited if the rules are observed to ensure respect for the marine and terrestrial species that populate it.
Rendez vous Fantasia has introduced a new houseboat holiday experience, where you can visit the Lagoon at a speed of no more than 10 km/h.
Come sailing with us between islands and sandbanks and raise a toast
with a Rosé Prosecco DOC on the island of Burano.
GLAMPING CANONICI SAN MARCO
The Canonici San Marco glamping in Mirano was the first in Italy to offer a new and original form of accommodation where you are completely surrounded by nature.
Glamping Canonici is a zero environmental impact structure created by the entrepreneurial spirit of Monica and Emanuela, who offer their guests open-air activities such as Shinrin-yoku and tastings of local products and wines, first and foremost Prosecco DOC.
VILLA DEI VESCOVI
Prosecco Doc Rosé loves art and those who work to preserve the many wonders of Italy.
“Italian Genio” opens the doors of Villa dei Vescovi, a fascinating Renaissance building in the Euganean Hills, just a few minutes from the city of Padua.
Once the summer residence of the bishops of the “City of the Saint” it is now managed and cared for by FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano Trust For Italy).
One of the most famous room in Villa dei Vescovi is the Putto room, where explicit reference is made to the wine-growing tradition of the Euganean Hills, whose volcanic soils give the Prosecco DOC its fruity and citrus scents.
HOTEL OCHE SELVATICHE
A pochi passi da Grado in Provincia di Gorizia, tra la laguna, l’oasi faunistica della Val Cavanata e la foce dell’Isonzo, troviamo il Boutique Hotel Oche Selvatiche.
Adriana, l’anima della struttura, racconta di sostenibilità e rispetto della natura, valori che l’hanno guidata nella realizzazione di questo luogo.
Qui si viene per rilassarsi, per fare bird watching, per i meravigliosi percorsi ciclabili che fiancheggiano la laguna ma soprattutto per brindare con un calice di Prosecco DOC Rosé allo spettacolo del tramonto, che ogni sera regala emozioni impagabili.
A territory that stretches from Vicenza to Trieste like a river that, with its branches, saturates a place full of history, ingenuity, and know-how. The mosaic rich in nuances with shades, varying from intense green to then grey and blue; fragments that are thickened and softened like a painting in the making, depending on the season and the talent of the man: four provinces, those of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and five in Veneto tell the story of the lands of Prosecco DOC in an extraordinary journey that ends with Pianura Padana that gently flows into the Adriatic.
Just as lightness, liveliness, and a balance between aromas and acidity are the predominant characteristics of Prosecco DOC, so too is Prosecco DOC. Prosecco DOC, the same can be said of the main cities on our journey, which we will discover in this article amidst art, culture, and history.
Let’s start from Trieste, the city of the Bora and coffee as a way of life, of the Barcolana, the historic international sailing regatta that gives the Adriatic an infinite number of sails. Its beauty can be found in the words of Svevo, Saba, and Joyce who loved to stop in the city’s cafés and salons because “Trieste, perhaps more than other cities, is literature, it is its culture”, to quote Claudio Magris. It is worth discovering it, starting from its colorful contrasts, its all-Italian elegance, and the first hints of Baltic flavour: gnocchi, risi e bisi, sardoni and granseole proudly stand alongside cevapcici, gulash, jota and presnitz in a language of taste, waiting to be discovered. Just before you continue to the next scene, stop at Miramare Castle and let yourself be bewildered by the infinite beauty of the landscape.
On the road to Gorizia you can see the sites of the war and breathe in the air of the frontier areas even more. A curious fact: in Piazza Transalpina you walk with one foot being in Italy and one in Slovenia, and until 2004 there was a wall to indicate this border. Today it is the ideal starting point for getting to know the city, with its squares, historical residences in the center, and 16th-century buildings: Piazza Cavour, Via Rastello, and Piazza Vittoria are obligatory stops before reaching the Cathedral, Palazzo Attems Petzenstein and the Synagogue. Don’t miss the Castle that overlooks the city and Palazzo Coronini Cronberg. Back on the road, it is nice to stop in Grado to discover the lagoon by bicycle, in Aquileia, an archaeological area so significant that it is considered a Unesco World Heritage Site, just like nearby Palmanova, where it will be fun to stroll through its stellar design and conclude with Cividale del Friuli, a walled city with its unmissable Lombard Temple, before resuming the journey towards Udine.
Here we are in Udine, a human-scale city, a place where you don’t arrive by chance and ‘an hour from everything’, a feature that makes it an excellent base for discovering this part of the Prosecco DOC lands. Udine is the ideal place to sip sparkling wine, eat and enjoy time without a precise destination: it has welcoming porticos and squares, Tiepolo’s masterpieces and a Castle that immediately makes it special. The canals around the city are amusing; they are not very well known and make the center truly special: the most striking are in Via Zanon, Vicolo Molin Nascosto and the Borgo Mercatovecchio passage. The last gem is the view from the first floor of the Trattoria ai Frati.
Pordenone sets out the places where the Prosecco DOC lands are. A city that breathes of Friuli but also of Veneto, it is a fine mix of art and shopping to be alternated with the nature that reigns supreme in the surrounding area. Not far from the town is Spilimbergo and its school of mosaics, Maniago, the birthplace of Italian cutlery art, Sacile with one of the prides of Made in Italy craftsmanship: Fazioli, a leading manufacturer of pianos, producing only a few pieces a year. And then Polceningo with its beautiful Gorgazzo spring, also known as the “portion of the liquid sky” for its turquoise reflections, and the Palù di Livenza site, a UNESCO heritage site among the Neolithic pile-dwelling sites of northern Italy.
With Belluno we officially enter the Veneto region. In an area of undisputed charm, protected by the Dolomites and bathed by the Piave River, the city is intriguing in the variety of its forms: the library and its pleasant arcade, the Basilica of San Martino and its bell tower that recalls the East, then the Interactive Museum of Migration. Sports and nature lovers will find Cortina, wrapped in its timeless elegance, the Dolomites and the Cansiglio Forest, in the Carnic Prealps, the ancient Forest of the Doges of the Republic of Venice, which still amazes with the colors of the beech trees that change from season to season.
We enter the province of Treviso with the splendid artistic stop in Vittorio Veneto where, between September and October, the winner of the City of Vittorio Veneto Violin Competition – International Prosecco DOC prize is announced. This is also the place for the pleasant evenings with the Cinema in cantina, where the visits to the winery to be experienced from a more cultural point of view. Organised in the cellars by the Consortium and the Sole Luna Association, each year they explore different topics through selected films. This year’s theme will be man’s profound bond with the land through emotions, challenges and traditions. A naturalistic pause is a must at the Grotte del Caglieron, with its cavities of artificial and natural origin, waterfalls and a route that unfolds in highly evocative places, and Sarmede, the town of fairytales, but also art and magic.
After all this walking, Treviso is also dedicated to food and slow living. Lose yourself in the streets, enjoy the sights and then stop to savor the cicchetti (snacks) on the Isola della Pescheria where every morning the ancient fish market is held and in the evening it takes on a different vibrancy with specialties from Treviso and, of course, Prosecco DOC by the glass.
Venice continues the carefree philosophy we started within Treviso. The city is worth discovering from its flavours in the bacari that are spread around the city, and the “ombra de vin” that proudly accompanies cicchetti between robust platters of cured meats and cheeses or fun sandwiches to sample here and there. It’s up to you to choose between a fragrant Bellini, made with Prosecco DOC and peach pulp, or a classic Spritz, with a more pronounced flavour, where Prosecco DOC meets Select (a true icon of the Venetian aperitif) with a green olive. The result, following the original recipe, is refined and intense, truly exclusive.
From Venice to Padua you will pass through the area of the Venetian Villas: choose the best ones, dedicating time to the Palladian Villas on the way to Vicenza. They will be a pleasant stop before arriving in Padua to visit Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel, the Civic Museums housing works by Tiepolo and Tintoretto, and the Basilica of St Anthony of Padua. Stop to admire the University and the historical places linked to it: the Botanical Garden, the Specola, the Anatomical Theatre. Between the end of the 1500s and the beginning of the 1600s Padua saw Galileo as one of the cultural protagonists of the scene, with the prestigious chair of mathematics. These were the most beautiful and fruitful years when the scientist created numerous texts, instruments and elaborated revolutionary theories.
Then the many squares that invite, once again, to socialising and the lightness of a glass of Prosecco DOC.
Finally, Vicenza is a polite, discreet place. It is beautiful, with ancient and inconspicuous beauty. Vicenza has Palladio’s signature in every corner and shines even on not-so-sunny days. The Duomo and the Basilica Palladiana are as imposing as they are graceful and have a beautiful touch of colour in the blue of the dome, which blends in with the sky. Then there is the Loggia del Capitanio and Palazzo Chiericati, which show how beautiful civil architecture can be. And then there is the Hugo, light, fragrant and persistent, and the baccalà mantecato to spread on polenta or as you like. This is Vicenza too, politely greedy but certainly full of taste and charm.
