Moonlight tastings, live music and theatrical performances. These are just some of the events that will take place during Roma Hortus Vini, the three-day event dedicated to native vines organized by Luca and Francesca Maroni scheduled from 24 to 27 June in the spaces of the Botanical Garden of Rome.
After the success of Era Di Maggio, the spring festival staged on the first weekend of May, the enchanted garden in the heart of Trastevere shines again with three evenings of great interest. The absolute protagonists will be the native vines of Vigneto Italia, which in 2021 celebrates its third year of life. This is the first Italian Ampelographic Museum which houses, inside the Botanical Garden, over 150 varieties of cultivars from all regions of Italy and as many as 15 varieties of international vines, cultivated with biodynamic agronomy techniques, with an ecological impact to zero, by the expert hands of the scientific technical operators of the Garden in partnership with Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo.
Roma Hortus Vini 2021 will be a unique opportunity to admire the extraordinary spaces of the vegetable garden, exceptionally open in the evening, tasting the incredible variety of the Italian wine heritage, discovering its characteristics and extraordinary sensory qualities together with Luca Maroni.
Absolute novelty of this year's program, the short and precious theatrical performances that will take place every evening in a unique setting, created and proposed by Michele La Ginestra: actor pearls between the serious and the facetious on the oenological theme, to be enjoyed with a glass of good wine in hand.
The flagship, also this year, will be the Dégustation sur l'herbe in the moonlight in which Luca Maroni, the well-known sensory analyst who has been author of the Yearbook of the Best Italian Wines for thirty years, will decant the organoleptic qualities of a selection of excellent labels. The suggestion of the splendid voice of the soprano Alyssa Lesko and the trumpet solos of Roberto Villani will feed the suggestion of these moments.
To frame the theater and the guided tastings, there will be live performances of jazz music from the Francigena in Jazz & Swing and Renaissance and Baroque music performed by the students of the Liceo Musicale Farnesina, as well as the original experience of Wine Listening (of Gabriele Cedrone and Marco Iacobelli): zero-impact listening to music playlists that are perfect for pairing with the wines being tasted (details and headphone booking on www.romahortusvini.com).
And also an afternoon mini-program for children: the interactive show "Neoculus" to demonstrate how easy and fun it is to acquire new eyes with which to observe the wonders of nature that surrounds us.
Not just wine though. Inside the Botanical Garden there will also be tasty food corners. Among these there will be the artisanal ice creams (including alcoholic ones!) by Verde Pistacchio Lab; the fresh and summer Italian street food dishes of Yam! and Franco Sanità's Veroli bread.
And one last gem: on the occasion of the Summer Solstice, and in homage to the splendid location, all participants are invited to adopt a floral-themed dress code.
