Catalan wines and cavas tasted and promoted in Sicily

On Saturday 22 October, PRODECA, together with the Catalonia-Sicily Twinning Association and the Sicily Catalonia Association, held "Catalogna, dove il cibo è cultura", an event to promote Catalonia's food and wine culture at the Palazzo Fatta in Palermo (Italy). 

The event is part of the strategy for projecting the agri-food brand Catalonia, where food is culture that works to improve how Catalan products are perceived around the world, and consisted of a tasting of Catalan cavas accompanied by traditional dishes to highlight how the landscape shapes Catalan cooking.

The Catalan Government Delegate to Italy, Luca Bellizzi, welcomed those attending. In his remarks he highlighted the joint work carried out with PRODECA to promote Catalan food and gastronomy in Italy, as well as the opportunity these events have given Italian operators to learn more about Catalan products and their particular features.

Nel suo intervento, il delegato @luca_bellizzi ha sottolineato che "l'incontro ha permesso agli operatori siciliani di conoscere meglio i prodotti catalani e le loro peculiarità". pic.twitter.com/cM8EiBaMoO

— Catalan Gov. Italy (@Catalonia_IT) October 24, 2022

The programme included a tasting of five Catalan cavas (two cavas de guarda, white and rosé, of guarda superior; a reserva and a gran reserva; and a cava de paratge), led by sommelier Filippo Barbiera, accompanied by Giovanna Peracchia, an Italian chef and food consultant who has lived in Catalonia for 30 years. 

The "Catalogna, dove il cibo è cultura" event had the dual aim of presenting the distinctive identity of Catalonia's food and wine culture to a country with which it shares a Mediterranean lifestyle and diet, and of introducing Catalan food and wine products. Each tasting was therefore paired with traditional dishes, highlighting how the different landscapes shape Catalan cooking. Giovanna Peracchia stressed the similarities between the cuisine and local customs of both Mediterranean territories to strengthen the bond between them.

This event is part of PRODECA's food and wine promotion plan in Italy, which , which began in Rome on 12 June, when Catalan food culture was presented in full in Rome, with a graphic workshop at the Ottiomomassimo bookshop with the writer Núria Parera, a tasting of Catalan wines and food products led by oenologist Marco Cum and chef Giovanna Peracchia, and a Catalan rumba concert at Rome's Botanical Garden.