In order to demonstrate the great pairing of Italian wine and Sichuan cuisine, on May 23th, Hoonay invited Ms Albiera Antinori, the vice president of Antinori, to come to Chengdu to hold a native Sichuan banquet matched with Antinori Wines. All of the guests are locals; include gourmands, wine lovers and big wine dealers in Sichuan.

In this event, Antinori choose two of their representative house wines, Villa Antinori White, Villa Antinori Red, and two high quality sparkling wines, Montenisa Brut, Prunotto-Moscato d’Asti, to match the various Sichuan dishes of the banquet. These wonderful matches gained high praises from the guests, who were totally attracted to Italian wines and Sichuan cuisine pairing.

One of the native wine dealer said, ‘I used to think that the various spicy Sichuan food were hard to match the Italian wine, and now I must admit that high quality Italian wines are good partners of Sichuan Cuisine, the wine market in Sichuan should be worth forward to the potential rise.’

Beside the wonderful matches between Sichuan food and Italian wine, Ms Albiera Antinori also showed to everyone that Italian wines could give special flavors to Sichuan Cuisine in cooking, she cooked double cooked pork slices, which is a very famous Sichuan dish with Antinori wines, when finished, the dishes were great received by those native guests, all of them praised this good idea and were very willing to try this in future.

The banquet hall for this event

 

Ms Albiera Antinori and Mr Jacopo Pandolfini (the Asia - Pacific Export Manager) were decanting the wines for the banquet

 

People were talking about the wines and native cuisine before the banquet

 

 

Ms Albiera Antinori’s Chinese cooking show gained a grand success, the double cooked pork slices cooked with Antinori wines