The Local
9 April 2021
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Visitors enjoy a wine tasting at a previous edition of the Vinitaly fair in Verona. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
9 April 2021
16:11 CEST
Verona residents are missing the city s Vinitaly wine fair, cancelled for a second year due to the coronavirus crisis. Writer Richard Hough asks whether such events will remain important in Italy - and tries a digital tasting instead.
As I suggested in my last column, wine is the lifeblood of Verona and the cancellation of the Vinitaly fair, for the second year in succession, has been a massive blow to the local wine community.