EVENTS
ROADSHOW: 4 events in a row! Gambero Rosso on the road: Houston, Mexico City, Taipei, and Beijing
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he Gambero Rosso Roadshow is off with a bang, with 4 events taking place in under a month. More than sixty wineries are traveling together to showcase a sample of Italian biodiversity. On Tuesday, April 21, Gambero Rosso began in the Union Station of Houston, in the magical setting of the original train station with a sweeping view over the baseball stadium, Minute Maid Park. As we write, the tour is on its
way to Mexico City, the scene of one of last year’s successful events. The tasting is scheduled for Friday, April 24, in the centrally located Avenida Paseo de la Reforma. Five hundred wines will be paired with Italian dishes carefully prepared by Il Becco Reforma at the Four Seasons Hotel, the restaurant newly opened by Rolly Pavia, a true ambassador of top Italian food and wine in Mexico. Last October, Rolly, in his Osteria del Becco in Polanco, built a caveau of
totally Italian bottles, among the largest and most complete in the world, with more than 30,000 bottles of super premium wines cellared. Wine consumption in Mexico is rapidly increasing: experts estimate a constant annual growth of 13% over the next year. The latest numbers conÅZU \PM XW[Q\Q^M \ZMVL 1V \PM ÅZ[\ [MUM[\MZ WN QUXWZ\[ of Italian wine reached 10.3 million euros, compared to 7.4 during the same period in 2013. There is no time for a break.