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Cin cin 2020, here are the bottles to bring to the table – Italian Cuisine

A unique, unmistakable sound that means celebration: it is that of the cork of wine that frees itself from the bottle and flies happily around the world, with an engine of bubbles or on the edge of a corkscrew. Good quality bottles cannot be missing from local Christmas tables and for the year-end toast. Here is a selection.

Bubbles to no more

180821 The Prosecco Extra Dry DOC it is the sparkling flower in the buttonhole of thetoompany Tenuta Sant’Anna, company in the heart of Lison Pramaggiore, lands deditis to viticulture since Roman times, that always ovensronor wine to the Republic of Venice This is a pleasant wine, perfect for toasts e easy to drink. For Christmas 2019 is proposed in gold and black box. (€ 15)

Sparkling wine organic vegan Passerina Brut Costadoro it has a nice pale straw color, with a consistent and soft froth fed by a fine and continuous perlage. Perfect in combination with aperitifs and appetizers, in the prestigious magnum version it is sold in the very refined black and gold package. (€ 15)

Perfect as starter or in combination with a dessert, the Merlettaie Brut Spumante Pecorino by Ciù Ciù it has a candid and creamy froth, a subtle perlage and fragrant notes of yeasts and floral aromas, all on a pleasant mineral background. In the mouth it is enveloping and fresh. (€ 30, Magnum)

180833 Bella the initiative of Guido Berlucchi for Christmas 2019: buying the delicious casket Berlucchi '61 for Treedom it will be possible to give one of the 300 trees planted in collaboration with the web platform, the only one in the world that allows you to plant a tree at a distance and follow it online. Contains two of the best known Franciacorta of the cellar: Berlucchi ’61 Satèn and Berlucchi’ 61 Brut. (€ 39.90)

The award-winning sparkling wine Altemasi Riserva Graal 2012 it is a perfect choice for those who want to offer or offer themselves a refined luxury product. This Trentino Classic Method naxes from Chardonnay and Pinot Nero grapes and it's characterized by white foam, fine perlage, and complex perfume taste wraparound and persistent. Really refined. (42 €)

For a toast in style, the elegance of the black Val D’Oca. The star of the Italian Prosecco firmament, the label of the house Prosecco Valdobbiadene Superior D.O.C.G. Extra Dry Millesimato black (€ 9.50). Excellent as a protagonist on all occasions from bubbles, it is transparent and clear with that hint of its Golden apple.

White, red and yellow!

Torre Rosazza Sauvignon Colli Orientali del Friuli Doc is an Sauvignon in purity, that aromatic vine that it is in those lands that it is best expressed. Saporite and markedly aromatic, refreshing, is splendido tasted as an aperitif, goes well with tasty first courses with herbs, seconds of fish, cold cuts and fresh cheeses. (12,50 €)

For Christmas 2019 Costa Arente shows off his Valpolicella Ripasso DOC in version Magnum, complete with sealing wax to seal the refined wooden box. A wine that expresses method, care and attention to tradition, that of "repassing" the Valpolicella grapes on the skins of Amarone. To accompany important second courses. (€ 42.50)

THEthe Moscato Passito di Noto D.O.P. of the cellar Feud Luparello it is perfect to combine with panettone and to others desserts of the Christmas tradition. Fragrant, intense, complex. (15 €)

When the meal was over, I caught my throat again!

180854 To be enjoyed frozen, ideally at – 20 ° C, the Vecchio Amaro del Capo as clear and transparent, amber makes our throat flow rich in citrus aromas of orange and bergamot. To give in the pack with glasses right to taste it at the top (19 €). The precious Reserve version 100th Anniversary (48 €) it is instead to be sipped at room temperature.

THE' Elisir San Marzano Borsci is una cream of intense brown color, dense in its golden reflections with flavor well balanced between sweet and bitter. Gold Medal for Spirits Selection 2018, + is Caffa's 'oriental specialty', a company perceived as a leader in its sector. His aromatic profile is complex, between fruity, spicy and vegetable notes.

Carola Traverso Saibante
December 2019

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The "second hand" of plastic bottles – Italian Cuisine

The "2 × 1" in Ferrarelle arrives. No, this is not the usual campaign of discounts to which the supermarkets have accustomed us but a project based on environmental sustainability. Thanks to the new plastic recovery plant, the company is able to produce recycled PET bottles: each two recovered can be produced […]

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The "2×1" comes in Ferrarelle. No, this is not the usual campaign of discounts to which the supermarkets have accustomed us but a project based on the sustainability environmental. Thanks to the new plastic recovery plant, the company is able to produce bottles in Recycled PET: every two recovered a new one can be produced. The countdown to the arrival on the market of bottles of Ferrarelle obtained for 50% from PET recycling, has already begun. We need only the latest authorization from EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority), which should arrive by the end of 2019. On the project "Bottle to bottle" Ferrarelle has invested so much (34 million of euros only for the new plant) and thought big: the structure of Presenzano, in the province of Caserta, not only meets the needs of the company, but realizes recycled plastic also for other uses (from construction to clothing, fromfaux leather to the objects of furniture) and has a production capacity equal to twice the PET which Ferrarelle uses in a year.

The novelty: recycled and "home made" bottles
Ferrarelle's choice is pioneering for the world of food, and not just Italian. No other mineral water company has its own plant to manage the cycle integrated of PET recovery. TO Presenzano plastic waste arrives from the circuit of separate waste collection throughout Italy. Here, after having appropriately selected and treated them, new bottles are obtained, made up of 50% by Recycled PET (the so-called R-PET). For now we cannot go because the Italian law is more rigid than in other European countries. But the goal is to raise this threshold, as is permitted in many European countries.

From the box to the table (and vice versa)
They look like installations of "pop art", the large cubes of bottles of drinks, crushed and compressed, coming from the circuit of the separate collection and piled in the external courtyard of the plant of Presenzano. Looking at them it is difficult to think that they can obtain something good. And yet it is so. Everything starts from a premise: PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is fully recoverable and today in Italy has a rate of 40% recycling about. But Italian law sets limits on the use of PET "second hand": can represent at most the 50% maximum of new containers in PET. This is why the new Ferrarelle water bottles will be only half R-PET. And that's why this establishment doesn't just serve to satisfy the need of the company but realizes recovery plastic materials destined to other uses, food and not. In fact, the flow of incoming PET is substantial: only in the first seven months of 2019 were they 4,500 tons that, when fully operational, they will become 23 thousand. That is the equivalent of 800 thousand bottles in recycled plastic every year.

What is behind a bottle of R-PET
The PET journey in the plant is forced: we start with the separation of the labels and with a prewash, to then move on to the selection of the material to eliminate the "unwanted" ones. At this point the selected PET is ground in water mills. You get one chip, similar to that of soap. Separated from the one obtained from the caps (which are made of a plastic material different from the bottles and are intended for different uses), the one in PET it is washed, dried, and again selected and controlled. Finally, it is separated by type and color (there is a precise point of green, the green Ferrarelle) and treated with heat and empty to make it suitable for contact with food. And after all this process, the recycled PET scale is ready to be mixed with that "new" to make the preforms, that is the like test tubes (but of maxi dimensions) that represent the embryos of the new bottles, then produced in the two plants of bottling of Ferrarelle.

Manuela Soressi
October 2019

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In Milan water bottles as a gift for elementary and middle school children, the idea of Beppe Sala – Italian Cuisine

Less than two weeks before the start of the school, the news of a "precious" gift waiting for them on their return arrived for all children enrolled in primary and secondary schools in Milan. This was announced on his Instagram profile Mayor Beppe Sala, making himself proud with two aluminum flasks in his hands. Here it is gift for the 100,000 elementary and middle school children in Milan: an aluminum water bottle to strongly reaffirm that Milan is becoming increasingly plastic free. And what is more sensible than starting from them, from children, to convey the message that a world without plastic is possible, with the effort of everyone and with small but important new habits to be acquired?

In September, therefore, 100,000 children (60,000 enrolled in the primary school and 40,000 in the lower secondary school) will be distributed as many aluminum water bottles, probably bearing the logo of one of the participating companies that the Mayor Sala is involving in the project (A2A or Mm). Thus the Mayor of Milan announced and explained this initiative on the pages of the Republic: "To set a good example we will start with our subsidiaries and public services. And we will also do symbolic actions that will help to reflect: the City will give all the girls and the children of the elementary schools, and the boys of the middle schools, on their return to school, an aluminum flask to mark our will to fight the plastic. We need signals and, above all, examples ".

We need signals, and examples. All parents know that they learn quickly how much their children learn more from their gestures than from their words. And even Beppe Sala (and the municipal administration) knows this very well and has realized how fundamental it can be to teach children a reduce the use of plastic in favor of a healthier and more livable environment.

And then in Milan the mayor's water is good and controlled, what better way to carry it around in the "mayor's bottle"?

The first step has been taken, now we are waiting for the next projects of respect and care for the environment that Milan intends to launch to be able to tell them and who knows, to hope that they can be "signs and examples" also for other Italian cities and beyond.