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Cantine Astroni Wine Dinner @ Vina Enoteca

Cost: $95

WINE DINNER WITH CANTINE ASTRONI

AND CRISTINA VARCHETTA

“VOLCANIC WINES FROM THE HEART

OF CAMPI FLEGREI IN CAMPANIA”

WEDNESDAY MAY 6th • 6:30PM

$95 per person

5 Wines - 5 Courses

When: Wednesday, May 6th · 6:30 PM

Where: Vina Enoteca - 700 Welch Road, Suite 110, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tickets: $95 a person + Grat & Tax 

VIsit or website www.vinaenoteca.com to get your tickets.

Cantine Astroni is a renowned winery in Naples, Italy, specializing in volcanic wines from the Campi Flegrei area. Named after the surrounding Astroni Crater (an ancient volcanic crater-turned-nature reserve), the winery was established in 1999 by the Varchetta family to highlight native grapes like Falanghina, Aglianico and Piedirosso.

These are truly Volcanic wines. The Campi Flegrei (or Phlegraean Fields) is one giant smoldering super-volcano, with dozens of craters spread over about 80 square miles—much of that within the densely populated city limits of Naples, one of Europe’s most historic and chaotic metropolises. In the nearby countrysides are craters that look like large mining pits, where fumaroles release potent-smelling sulfurous gas.

Talk about volcanic terroir! In recent years, volcanic soils have become a hot topic in wine. But aside from Sicily’s Mount Etna, many of these so-called volcanic places haven’t been active for thousands of years.

At the other end of the spectrum of activity, Campi Flegrei is in a class of its own.

“This is not like Etna where you look up and see the volcano. Here you live in the volcano,” declares Gerardo Vernazzaro, the 46-year-old winemaker at his family’s Cantine Degli Astroni winery, named after the spent crater—now covered in forest and turned into a nature reserve—that sprawls miles below its oldest vineyard.

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