Chicago. A translatlantic mission for 19 Italian wine families of the Istituto Grandi Marchi which will be in Chicago and Toronto on Monday and October 18. The objective is to consolidate the promotion of Italian wines on the two most strategic markets for our export with a programme that is focused on seminars guided tastings. The Italian restaurant “Spiaggia” will host a Grandi Marchi seminar on Monday, October 17 with a guided wine tasting lead by Rachael Lowe, currently the wine director of the restaurant and known among the American public for her work with great names in the food sector such as Thomas Keller and Gordon Ramsay. In Canada, the mission will see the renewal of the collaboration between the Institute, with its cellars in 12 Italian regions and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO). Monday October 18 at the Royal Ontario Museum, the largest museum in Canada and the fifth in North America; the LCBO manager will present a wine tasting and seminar and two walking around tastints dedicated to trade, press and consumers. (9colonne)
