The Consorzio Vino Chianti leaves for the Vietnam and for the first time stops on Thursday 30 May, to Ho Chi Minh City for the Chianti Lovers Asian Tour II, a second Asian tour to promote wineries who will meet Vietnamese market operators as well as special guests from other countries.
“The Vietnamese market, historically educated and with a so-called "French-speaking" colonial tradition, has been making decisive steps forward in the world of wine trading and its consumption in recent years. Vietnam is one of the countries with the most momentum and recent growth. This is why the Consortium has chosen to enter this new market”, comments the president Giovanni Busi.
In addition to the usual tastings Walk Around Tasting a seminar dedicated to professional operators will be proposed in Ho Chi Minh which will touch on all the production categories of Chianti docg, such as the vintage, the Superiore, the Riserva up to the Vin Santo del Chianti doc
The session will be conducted by a wine expert local To Viet, who will be joined by some representatives of the Consortium in this first acquaintance with the Chianti docg products. At the end of the evening an aperitif-meeting with the producers is proposed, in Tuscan style.
From 3 to 5 June, however, the Consorzio Vino Chianti returns to China, in the city of Guangzhou (Canton), to participate in the Interwine fair, an event that is now "familiar" to Chianti companies.
“Chianti docg and the Consortium were among the pioneers of the internationalization of the fair, to which the Chianti Academy Chinasoon to return to China. We are back this year with dozens of labels in the mix and with the participation of students from two Tuscan hotel institutes”, explains Busi.
In fact, this year the stand will feature about 20 local companies and an institutional counter of the Consortium where over 60 labels will be served, but the novelty is the collaboration with the hotel institutes Datini and Saffi as part of a school exchange project which "rewards" the best students of the courses with professional approach experiences in other countries and with a technical-cultural exchange with other professional hotel institutes in the world.
Some students, accompanied by professors, will manage a small kitchen inside the Consortium's stand, and will cook some traditional Italian dishes for visitors.
On June 3 will also be held a Masterclass – Very special Cooking Show, within which the Datini/Saffi student brigade will accompany a seminar on Chianti wines with "open cooking", always with some traditional dishes prepared expressly, for the first time interactive and fully tasted by the participants.
