Un vino, due culture
To "land" in the USA and become the best-selling white wine, Pinot Grigio Santa Margherita passed the pairing test with one of the simplest and most representative dishes of Italy on the table: the classic spaghetti with tomato sauce.
An apparently simple combination, which however allowed us to show a great strength of Santa Margherita: the ability of its wines to "dialogue" with the work of the chefs, be they "titled" chefs or simple managers of the family table.
More than fifty years later, this ability has not diminished; if anything, general consideration towards the many "cuisines" of the world has grown enormously, an attitude amplified by the success that the Milan Expo is having.
Among the many cuisines that are demonstrating all their value, there is the South American one, the result of the fusion between native agricultural products and the Spanish gastronomic tradition to which the cuisines of the various European and Asian migratory waves have gradually been grafted. An example? Peruvian cuisine based on a range of incredible products: from the fruits of the Amazon jungle, to the Andean ones, to fish from the Pacific.
One of the new, great interpreters of this cuisine is chef Diego Munoz, of the "Astrid & Gaston" in Lima, number one among the 50 best South American restaurants. His culinary career began in 1998, touring the world of the best international restaurants, before returning to Peru in 2012 where he renovated the kitchen of the already established Acurio restaurant, taking it in just three years from position number 42 to number 14 of “The World's 50 Best Restaurants”.
Santa Margherita and Diego Munoz worked together to combine Peruvian dishes - from chalaco ceviche to potato and crab pie, to rice with Andean pumpkin, to corn desserts - with four high-ranking testimonials: the "Classic Method Brut Rosé Athesis” Alto Adige Doc by Kettmeir; “Luna dei Feldi”, Alto Adige Doc 2014, Santa Margherita; the Chianti Classico Riserva Docg, Vigneto di Campolungo 2010, Lamole di Lamole; “Moscato Rosa Athesis” Alto Adige 2011, Kettmeir.
This "four-handed" work was carried out in recent days at the Expo, during a dinner/tasting "One wine, two cultures" aimed at the new narrators of taste, the wine and food bloggers, whose consideration among the public of foodies is constantly growing.
