Wine tasting at Villa Matilda 1st December 2012
Manilva’s Foreign residents department has organised a wine tasting event at Villa Matilde (near Supersol) next Saturday 1st December from 12 noon.
It is in collaboration with Funmades – Fundacion Manilva Desarrollo – (The Manilva Foundation for Development) which has the task of promoting activities that help to advance Manilveños (people from Manilva) in terms of training and research into new sources of employment. One such task is to boost the recovery of the wine making sector in Manilva which it is doing with Manilva Town Hall by providing professional training: The High School Wine Workshop and the Higher Degree in Wine at Las Viñas for young people between 18 and 24 years of age are course now available and launching the new ‘MOMA’ Moscatel wine of Manilva, a white wine made from 100% young Alexandrian moscatel grapes.
Ana Lamora, the teacher of the above courses will be talking about this initiative and the wines of the denomination of origin Sierras of Malaga, which Manilvas own locally processed wine MOMA, Moscatel de Manilva, intends to become part of.
Wines from the cellars of Malaga Virgen and Cortijo Los Olivares will be tasted aswell as Manilvas MOMA.
Diego Urieta explained that the objective pursued with this initiative is to foster the coexistence and participation of foreign residents in the activities of the municipality and also let them know about the products that are being developed in the province in a sector such as the wine industry.
Registration to participate in this tasting and later tasting of typical products from Malaga that go with the wines is 8 euros per person and places are limited to 30 people.
For more information and to register, interested parties can contact by telephone 952893548 or visit the Foreign Residents department office at Castillo de La Duquesa.