You’ve probably heard of the “Slow Food” movement, which was emerged from Italy’s Piedmont region more than 25 years ago in 1989. The slow food movement’s mission is… good, clean and fair food for all.

What you may not know, at least I didn’t until recently, is that there’s also a “Slow Wine” movement.

In 2010, Slow Food International began its independent Slow Wine project with the release of a Slow Wine Guide(1). The guide adopts a new approach to wine criticism and looks at a variety of factors to evaluate wineries in their entirety, taking into consideration the wine quality, typicity and adherence to terroir, value for money, environmental sensitivity and ecologically sustainable viticultural practices.

“We have abandoned the very easy-to-understand, but ultimately also trivializing, method of awarding points and sought to look beyond the glass…What matters is a wine’s soul” – Giancarlo Gariglio and Fabio Giavedoni

Next week more than 50 winemakers from 15 Italian wine regions will bring their bottles across the pond for the annual Slow Wine tasting in San Francisco. An afternoon trade tasting will be followed by an evening consumer walk around tasting where you’ll have the chance to taste the wines about 100 wines!  Admission includes a copy of the 2015 Slow Wine Guide .  Here are the details!

When: January 29, 2015 – San Francisco

Where: Terra Gallery 511 Harrison St. – San Francisco, CA 94105

Times:

12.30 pm – 4.30 pm: open to industry Register here

6 pm – 8.30 pm: open to the public Get your ticket here

Discounts: Enter promotion Code ENOFYLZ for a $15 discount! 

Remember, in order to maximize your enjoyment and learning at public tastings:

• Wear dark, comfortable clothes
• Hydrate
• Spit
• Skip the perfume and cologne

Hope to see you there!

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(1) About Slow Wine
The Slow Wine Guide, published by Slow Food Editore (the publishing arm of Slow Food Italy**) adopts a new approach to wine criticism and looks at a variety of factors to evaluate wineries in their entirety, taking into consideration the wine quality, typicity and adherence to terroir, value for money, environmental sensitivity and ecologically sustainable viticultural practices. Slow Wine was conceived to give a realistic snapshot of the current Italian wine landscape. The guide features reviews of 400 different wineries, each one visited by Slow Food experts. It is available for purchase on Amazon.com as well as in select bookstores.

Related Post You Might Enjoy:

The Slow Wine Way – The Washington Post

Martin Redmond is a Financial Executive by day, and a certified wine geek with latent foodie tendencies the rest of the time. In addition to the wine lifestyle and food he enjoys family, fitness and traveling. He likes to get thoughts of wine off his mind by sharing experiences on his ENOFYLZ Wine blog, which features wine reviews, wine country travel, and wine and food pairings.

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