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Local Event
Cost: $100
City Winery and American Airlines present a wine dinner hosted by Vietti Winery. We invite you to a four course dinner showcasing the wines and cuisine of the storied region of Langhe in Northern Italy served by American Airlines.
About Vietti:
Patriarch Mario Vietti, starting from 1919 made the first Vietti wines, selling most of the production in Italy. His most significant achievement was to transform the family farm, engaged in many fields, into a grape-growing and wine-producing business.
Then, in 1952, Alfredo Currado (Luciana Vietti’s husband) continued to produce high quality wines from their own vineyards and purchased grapes. The Vietti winery grew to one of the top-level producers in Piemonte and was one of the first wineries to export its products to the USA market.
Alfredo was one of the first to select and vinify grapes from single vineyards (such as Brunate, Rocche and Villero). This was a radical concept at the time, but today virtually every vintner making Barolo and Barbaresco wines offers “single vineyard” or “cru-designated” wines.
Alfredo is also called the “father of Arneis” as in 1967 he invested a lot of time to rediscover and understand this nearly-lost variety. Today Arneis is the most famous white wine from Roero area, north of Barolo. Setting such a fine example with Arneis, even fellow vintners as far away those on the west coast of the United States now are cultivating and producing Arneis!
Sweepstakes:
Everyone who attends a dinner will be entered into the sweepstakes, and will have the opportunity to win! The drawing of final winner name will take place at the conclusion of the series of dinner in 2020. This will include the possibility to win 2 roundtrip tickets to any international destination that American Airlines services. American Airlines is the Official Airline of City Winery and the First Class International Pairing Series.
Menu forthcoming. Please allow at least 72 hour notice of any dietary restrictions to chicagoconcierge@citywinery.com
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