This weekend will be devoted to gastronomy and quality wines.
The Hotel Slovenija’s Congress Centre will host the
16th Malvasia Festival, climaxing
on Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 18, with the gala event
Malvasia Life. Our guests will be pampered with boutique culinary masterpieces and a rich variety of selected Malvasia wines.
There will be established winemakers, gastronomy professionals and other providers at the festival:
Restaurant Á la Carte
Mediteran, Brajnik kakiji (Brajnik Persimmons), Casa del sal Restaurant,
Čebelarstvo Kozlovič (Kozlovič Bee-Keeping), Domačija Butul (Butul
Homestead), Domači figovi izdelki Marsič (Marsič Home-Made Fig
Products), Domačija Munda (Munda Homestead), Istral s.p., Alberto
Pucer und Robi Titan, trgovina Istra tartufi (Istra Truffles shop),
Trgovina Vinko Šavle s.p. (Vinko Šavle s.p. shop), Kmetija Franko &
Adrijano (Franko & Adrijano Farm), Kmetija Trček (Trček Farm), Ličer
Benjamin, Ribogojnica Fonda (Fonda Fishery), Soline, Pridelava soli
d.o.o. (Soline, Pridelava soli d.o.o. - salt production).
You are cordially invited to the exclusive culinary pampering and a myriad of heavenly Mediterranean flavours!
The Malvasia Life!
The Programme of the 16th Malvasia Festival:
6:00 p.m. – 11 p.m. - Malvasia Life
Day of Istria’s boutique culinary delights
3:00 p.m.
Solemn opening
4:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Malvasia wine tastings
4:00 p.m.
“Organised Chaos” - Tomaž Škvarc Lisjak, the winner of the 2013 cooking show, and Iztok Klenar, an oenologist
6:30 p.m.
The winning Malvasia wines of the “Sommelier Slovenije 2014” wine evaluation – Tilen Praprotnik, an oenologist
7:00 p.m.
Adriatic squids, a professional culinary workshop with
Malvasia wines - Časlav Matijević, a finalist of the Croatian TV
programme MasterChef, and Ingrid Mahnič
11:00 a.m.
Opening speech – the greeting to Malvasia
11:30 a.m.
Round-table: Istrian Malvasia without borders - Sašo Dravinec, a journalist of the newspaper Primorske novice
1:30 p.m.
Istrian banquet
2:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Malvasia wine tastings
4:30 p.m.
The Malvasia wines of the Mediterranean – Tomaž Sršen, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Dolce Vita
6:00 p.m.
More than olives and wine, this is Slovenian Istria! - Tomaž Bevčič, the Rizibizi restaurant, and Boštjan Zidar, an oenologist.