LE UVE DEI PELIGNI (THE GRAPES OF THE PELIGNA VALLEY) FESTIVAL

Every year during the first weekend of August the antique cantine (wine cellars) of Pratola Peligna open their doors for the local community to taste their wines. This event is now in its fourteenth season.

The town comes alive during this weekend-long event. To start the evening, you buy your glass and its carrier along with tickets or a bracelet that shows that you’ve paid to visit all the wineries.  You are given a map so that you can explore on your own or a local experienced wine guide will accompany you to explain the wines and the cantine to you. 

You will be guided through the town by painted footprints, candlelight, painted arrows or whatever the group has in store for us this year.  Each cantina will serve their wine (either white, red or both) and will always give some sort of food at each stop (because Italians never drink wine without some sort of food). 

At the end of your tour, a local band will play into the night in the piazza with dancing and socializing with the community.  Artists will often display their work inside their chosen cantina.
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14 local and regional producers: Cascina del Colle, Tenuta Oderisio, Bosco, Azienda Agricola Tocco, Marchesi de Cordano, Cantina Blancodini, Di Bacco, Margiotta, Bove, Pietrantonj, Valpeligna, Jasci and Marchesani, Legonziano heirs and Piquini Wines participate, along with a little art, music, and culture.

Come to taste the regions most popular wines such as the Montepulciano, Trebbiano and Pecorino wines as well as the Cerasuolo and Passerina varieties.

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