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Insolitus, the new line of Abbazia di Novacella dedicated to experimentation – Italian Cuisine

Abbazia di Novacella, the South Tyrolean winery born in 1142 and now a reference point for South Tyrolean oenology, points to the future with three new wines from the Insolitus line: Ohm, Quota and Hora

Novacella Abbey, the South Tyrolean winery born in 1142 and now a reference point for Italian enology, aims to experiment with three new wines of the line insolitus: Ohm, Quota and Hora. Three references born from the desire to experiment and explore new paths, in view of the future choices of the winery. It is a path motivated by several factors: on the one hand the continuous climate change and the rise in temperatures, on the other, the desire to pursue sustainability environmental, combined with the continuous search for wines that unite complexity, strong territorial footprint and drinkability.

Insolitus, a construction site open to the future

«Insolitus wants to represent for Abbazia di Novacella a place of confrontation and gaze towards the future, a combination of matter, wisdom and time – says sales director Werner Waldboth. It is an open construction site, within which we want to feel free to dare, always with the aim of creating wines that integrate well with our important past, but at the same time interact with the changes they are experiencing ".
The name of the line, Insolitus, has been chosen to underline something extraordinary, an area where you can create three different possibilities of expression, completely personal. And this though Ohm, Quota and Hora fit fully into the great tradition of the whites of Valle Isarco, a land that for years has represented a place of choice for the highest quality viticulture. To make the difference, in fact, compared to other areas of Italy, the cool climate, the suitable terrain and the possibility of cultivating the vineyard on the high ground, where the strong temperature variations between day and night give the wines a great acidity, as well as elegance and aging ability. Characteristics that are all found in these three new white wines, made with Bronner, Pinot Blanc and Sylvaner grapes.

The news: Ohm, Quota and Hora

The first, called Ohm Bronner 2019 Mitterberg IGT, is obtained with the Bronner grape, one of the most historic varieties of the PIWI universe (means vines resistant to fungal diseases), born in Germany in 1975 at the Friborg Research Institute. Ohm refers to the symbol that indicates the unit of measurement for electrical resistance and the name represents the soul of this wine, born from a resistant grape variety placed at 400 m high, whose grapes are harvested late and then left to ferment in steel for about 6 months before being bottled. It is a wine very linear, tense, with vibrant acidity. The nose releases aromas of citrus fruits, orange blossom and lime peel, like some Pinot Blanc from Val Venosta. It goes well with foods with a delicate fatness, such as roasts, stewed monkfish or vegetable soups.

Quote instead it is a Alto Adige Pinot Bianco Doc 2018, a wine from vines planted in 650 meters high. It's a Pinot Blanc which completely represents the area where the northernmost of Italy and the most exposed to the sun are made on the land north of the Abbey. Fermentation takes place in barriques and the wood gives this wine a natural balance, without caging it. In the mouth there are the classic aromas of Pinot Blanc, of a fruit that although ripe, retains its verve. It is perfect to drink immediately but left in the bottle it could develop one great complexity.

The last wine, Hora, Sylvaner Orange Wine 2015 vintage, is obtained from Sylvaner grapes bred in comprensory of Abbey of Novacella. «Time and patience, these are the two secrets of this new wine, characterized by a great olfactory texture complexity and originality "says Lucin, the winemaker of the winery. Hora made 24 months in 30-hectolitre oak barrels and 18 months in barrique, before resting for another year in the bottle. Has one roundness that the other two wines do not have, although it maintains a taut acidity, typical of Sylvaner, as is the almost savory finish. It is a wine that, forgotten in the cellar, will give great satisfaction.

The new issue of Vanity Fair is dedicated to connections – Italian Cuisine

For the first time the French street artist JR collaborates with an Italian magazine and creates a work that becomes the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fari dedicated to connections

Jean René, aka JR, photographer and street artist among the most famous in the world for his works in metropolitan contexts, on the night of Sunday 3 May created a new installation on a wall in a Paris neighborhood exclusively for the cover of Vanity Fair Italy.

The work reworks one of the best known masterpieces in the history of art, the Creation of Adam, the most iconic fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

What was the figure of Adam in the original work, in the reinterpretation of JR was replaced by a girl who is in front of God, both with their arms outstretched for a moment before touching each other.

This is the first collaboration that sees the French artist join an Italian magazine.

"The new connections to which we will be called after the virus emergency, the theme of the new issue of Vanity Fair, have been the topic of the creative process undertaken by the editorial staff with JR"He says Simone Marchetti, director of Vanity Fair. "We asked the artist to represent the fragility, potential, doubts and bets that we will have to face in the coming months and that we highlighted in the new issue. It was a challenge at a distance and in lockdown, a test of imagination that wants to show a way to create all the new connections necessary not only to get out of this difficult moment, but to build a better future".

The image of JR's work becomes the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands from May 6, dedicated to connections. Connections as new relationships, ties that go far beyond national borders and imposed physical limits; connections like new unions allowed by an innovation that passes through new priorities where technology is enabling to change, an integral part of the new daily system where what was not there before is the new indispensable.

A number that, through the authoritative voices of personalities and experts in the sector, rewrites and outlines the future to tell how our daily habits, relationships, training, culture, entertainment, use of services and have changed and will change our choices.

So the director Paolo Genovese writes a story for Vanity Fair about a platonic love at the time of the lockdown, the professor of Pedagogical Sciences Raffaele Mantegazza of the Milano-Bicocca University reflects on the loss of socialization between students in the middle of school desks, as important in education as learning, Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation, recounts the changes in the way in which museums are used which will reopen starting May 18. The changes in the entertainment sector will also be inevitable, which will lead to a new way of connecting to performances through streaming, as YouTube number 1 in Europe tells Vanity Fair Cécile Frot-Coutaz. The television and radio host Daniela Collu in his sincere and unfiltered story, he highlights the problem given by the absence of connection that creates isolation. To connect the world of adults with that of children there is the story of the prodigious Mikail Akar, the "Picasso child", a 7-year-old listed artist as well as a social media star. A connection between brothers, that between Edoardo and Eugenio Bennato, led to the birth of the song Reality cannot be this. The passage talks about the network, the one that cancels every distance but that at the same time the two brothers describe as a prison, highlighting the importance of the real and non-virtual connection. On the same line of thought also the other musical voice of the number: Bob Geldof.

Instead, there is a hint of irony in the half-serious alphabet that Miriam Leone he drew up to demonstrate how coronavirus has temporarily infected our language. Among the various words appear for example gathering, masks, concern and connections, which for Miriam are: "The Net, the Internet, the wi-fi: the platforms in which to enjoy content have saved us from madness … because only the wise do not go crazy alone, in silence and isolated and we know how to be few and rare, like pandas".

All these items are joined by the reportage on Vo ’Euganeo, the municipality of Veneto where there was the first coronavirus victim in Italy and where, by making unconventional choices, thanks to a connected community that supports and knows how to team up, the epidemic was isolated and the country was transformed into a laboratory in open sky from which, perhaps, the answers for the treatment of the disease will come.

In conjunction with the issue of the issue, the #TheConnectors project will also start, a series of virtual conversations featuring the excellence of the new connection in the fields of fashion, art, entertainment and entertainment. 14 videotalk appointments with as many symbols of the new communication, who every day will invite a selection of friends and colleagues to their round table to discuss with them the evolution in the field in which they are innovators. Between them Beniamino Barrese, Elisa Maino, Riccardo Pozzoli, Pablo Trincia, Nico Vascellari, Charley Vezza, Matteo Ward, Zuzu.

The meetings will be online on the Vanity Fair social channels and on the website.

#IoCiSono, the new issue of Vanity Fair dedicated to those who are fighting on the front line against coronavirus – Italian Cuisine

#IoCiSono, the new issue of Vanity Fair dedicated to those who are fighting on the front line against coronavirus. All proceeds will be donated to the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo.

After publishing a special issue dedicated to Milan and Italy, distributed free of charge in newsstands in Lombardy, Vanity Fair confirms its commitment to wanting to transmit a message of hope, strength, courage and above all gratitude to those who are fighting this global frontline fight in Italy against the Covid-19 virus.

The new issue of the weekly magazine directed by Simone Marchetti, on newsstands for March 25 for two weeks, whose entire proceeds from sales at newsstands will be donated to 'Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, one of the most troubled at the moment.

“Bergamo and its hospitals found themselves unwillingly at the center of an unprecedented health earthquake. The test to which the whole territory is subjected is very hard, and the health facilities are our first line. Doctors and nurses are doing the impossible. We must give them all the support they can. Men and means are needed to face a need for treatment that is greater than the current possibilities, even if multiplied since the beginning of the emergency. Thanks therefore to Vanity Fair and the Condé Nast Group for putting themselves at our side, with the strength of their communication channels and with a generosity that does them honor "comments Giorgio Gori, mayor of Bergamo.

On the cover of the issue is Caterina Conti, a 39-year-old pulmonologist, a doctor from the Bergamo hospital, engaged in the facility that more than any other, to date, has reached the limit of ICU admissions.

And if in the previous issue #IoSonoMilano was shrieked on the cover, (hashtag that on Instagram from Milan arrived throughout Italy and then bounced around the world in a universal chorus of voices, famous and not, also reposted by great international personalities), the new cover reads #IOCISONO, a message of presence and civil and human commitment that becomes a heroic example.

“But don't call these doctors, nurses, workers and volunteers heroes because they don't want to be called that themselves. They are professionals with an incredible sense of duty, workers to the extreme of strength and possibilities. For us, they become the reflection of a strong and hopeful Italy, a country that has always been able to overcome the most difficult moments. Their stories and businesses, all narrated in this issue, become a human novel that will accompany us forever, not only in the days of this emergency " Simone Marchetti, director of Vanity Fair.

The issue recounts the daily battles of those struggling with an unprecedented emergency. Among the many stories of courage, there is that of a family of pharmacists from Salerno who continues to work for the community despite the fact that his daughter is in precautionary isolation ;; that of a cashier and a newsagent in contact with the public every day; that of an employee of a factory that produces basic necessities; that of a volunteer who in the Marche brings drugs home to immunosuppressed people; and that of a general practitioner from the province of Brescia who talks about the difficulty of this moment.

A special edition that collects success stories, dedication and strength, such as that of Professor Tiberio, who has converted a resuscitation department of the hospital of Padua, or Patrizia Barbieri, mayor of Piacenza, with the testimony from the quarantine of a woman who does not give up, and the solidarity shown by the restaurants and chefs who cook for free for doctors.

In addition to the interviews with Gennaro Arma, Commander of the Diamond Princess who has just returned to Italy, commended for the courageous quarantine on the ship moored in Yokohama, and Daniela Trabattoni, cardiologist of Monzino, the number contains the testimonies of Chiara Gamberale, Cesare Cremonini, Daria Bignardi, and a short story written for Vanity Fair by the writer Eshkol Nevo on the world situation at the time of Covid-19.