“The main issue is that bio wines’ demand comes not only from international operators of Northern Europe (England, Scandinavia), but also from traditional wine consumers approaching bio products. This is the most interesting point to develop market: Sicily holds supremacy of bio vineyards (about 10 thousand hectares – almost one third of Italy’s surface). There is wide room for Sicily as “wine land”, and all its bio producers gathered in a specific association by IRVV”. The National Organization of Wine tasters (ONAV) organized the event.

Actually, bio wines are on Italian wine market, and are a great part of Sicilian production too.A reduced use of sulphites and of plant protection products in grapes growing are only some of the several features that make plain wine turn into “bio” wine. 

The event will try to explain some “biological” issues. Works started at 6 pm with an exhibition of Ignazio Pensovecchio’s paintings, “Wine and Sicilian biological products”. At 6.30 pm a workshop on Sicilian biological wines with a tasting held by the wine expert Gianni Giardina, ONAV’s vice-president and member of the National Committee for the Safeguard and Improvement of DO wines  of the Ministry of Agricultural Politicies, and Ignazio Garau, organizer of the Biodivino wine event.  

Authorities, the director of the Regional Institute of Vine and Wine, Dario Cartabellotta, the regional councilor of agricultural and food resources, Elio D’Antrassi, and ONAV’s National President, Giorgio Calabrese, took part into the event.