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Wine passionates visiting Italy in November have a chance to taste a large selection of wines for free.
Starting from November 6th, it will be possible tasting the Vino Novello, a kind of wine from the last grape harvest — ‘Novello‘ comes from ‘nuovo‘, which means ‘new‘, so “Vino Novello” could be roughly translated into “New Wine“.

On Sunday, November 12, more than 100 wine cellars across Italy will be open to the public for tasting the young wines.
Each cellar is also expected to offer regional specialities to accompany the Novello tasting.

The regions where the cellars will be open are: Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Veneto.
To know the cellars that will be open to the public, visit this web page (unfortunately it is in Italian only; click the links “cantine della regione” to find out more about the cellars )

For those who never heard of Slow Food, The Salone del Gusto — Hall of Taste, a very special food exhibition engineered by Slow Food Movement, taking place in Turin, Italy, through October 30, gives this possibility to learn about that.

Slow Food is a speciality food conservation society set up under the auspices of Italian gastronome Carlo Petrini.

Its philosophy is enjoying of food and rescuing “endangered” produce from all over the world.
This event, catering farmers, producers, and food lovers, features everything in terms of speciality produce from all over the globe. More about Slow Food here.

Nicola Paone’s Italian Restaurant in New York, will host a concert by Italian American tenor Aaron Caruso on Saturday, October 28.

The show will also feature the great comedian Marcantonio and special guest performers. Songs include Bocelli, Neapolitan, opera and Lanza.

Aaron Caruso is a classically trained operatic tenor who sings not only arias but also Neapolitan and songs from other regions in Italy.

- Event details -
Where: 207 East 34th Street
New York NY 10016
When: Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Find out more details here

If you are interested to learn Italian or to know more about the Italian culinary culture, this week you have a chance.
On October 23 kicked off the Italian language week.

The theme of this edition is “connections of Italian language with food, culinary traditions and festivals”. Several events are being scheduled by Italian culture institutes around the world.
To know more about the events agenda visit the Italian culture centers or embassies and consulates websites.