Vite e Vite

Vite e Vite: flavors and slow tourism with June Slow, May 23 to June 07 in La Maddalena. Opening on Saturday 23 with “Vite e Vite”.

June Slow: Kicking off May 23 with producers, master classes, tastings and guided tours. The event continues through June 7 under the banner of sensory and community experiences

In the paradisiacal Sardinian setting of La Maddalena on Saturday, May 23, 2026, with the wine review “Vite e Vite. Meetings with winemakers “, kicks off the seventh edition of “June Slow,” promoted until June 7 by Slow Food Gallura, Slow Food Sardegna and the municipal administration, which is gathering increasing response among tourists, residents and food and wine enthusiasts.

Vite e vite, three days dedicated to natural wine

The weekend of May 24-25 kicks off with three days dedicated to natural wine at the Ex Magazzini Ilva (Via Filzi, 10) with a well-rounded program including tastings, masterclasses, guided tours, a workshop, a conference, good food and lots of music. There will be 150 wines for tasting and more than 30 wineries present including Sardinian and national ones.

“Vite e vite has had its natural evolution and has become a festival, the annual appointment of an outreach and education project that we actually carry on all year round,” explains Paola Placido, creator and organizer of the natural wine discovery initiative now in its fourth year. She adds, “Our role as Slow Food Gallura is to intermediate between all the key players for the sustainability of the sector, so as to design a territory through its community. We are in fact creating not one, but several communities of territories in which all those who share the value of sustainable production and good human relations are invited to join.”

The goals of June Slow

Community engagement has always been constant throughout the event, as June Slow managerSimona Gay points out, “Over the years we have tried to highlight winemakers, farmers, breeders, fishermen and local communities who concretely interpret Slow Food’s values of ‘good, clean and fair,’ with the desire to make people rediscover the deep connection between people, territory and food culture. A fundamental awareness, because only when individuals feel truly connected to places, their history, traditions and those who guard local knowledge and production, can those territories be experienced, preserved and not abandoned.” He concludes, “This is the mission of Slow June: to create authentic relationships between people and territory, so that biodiversity, culture and local knowledge become once again a shared responsibility and a living presence in the everyday life of communities.”

In perfect agreement is the municipal administration. “Our community continues to share the values promoted by Slow Food with a view to a sustainable and integrated socio-economic development,” says Municipal Councillor for Commerce Stefania Terrazzoni. “Also in this edition, thanks to the project consolidated along these seven years, our economic operators are engaged in a proposal of excellent food and wine choices strongly linked to the territory.

The opening weekend program

Saturday, May 23

• 11:00 a.m. Appointment in the masterclass “The Time Ingredient in Refermented Wines ,” given by Giampaolo Giacobbo, co-owner of Arkè, a national distributor of natural wines.
• 12:00 noon masterclass dedicated to the declinations of Cannonau in Sardinia
• 4 p.m. – 10 p.m. opentasting booths and free chats with producers
• 5 p.m.Tasting tour led by Vasco Ciuti, Onav taster and entitled “The diversity of minerality in the mouth in relation to soil.”
• 5 p.m.Tasting tour entitled “Whites of Memory. Grapes of great territorial tradition, recovered, reinterpreted, protected” is and is curated – in Italian and English – by sommelier Alessandra Corda
• 6 p.m. Tasting tour by sommelier Alessandra Corda, again in two languages, accompanies wine lovers and the curious to discover “Reds at High Altitude. High altitude challenges and tenacious vineyards, heroic viticulture declined on three territories of the Sardinian hinterland.”

Sunday, May 24

• 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. In-depth conference in the Council Chamber of the City Hall (at Garibaldi Square, 13) with free admission. Title ” Natural wine today. Why offer it, why drink it. Reflections on today’s restaurant market and the pairing of wine with food “, moderated by wine communicator Alessandra Corda. Opening with the talk “The approach to natural wine, a matter of contact,” a big name in wine popularization in Italy: Sandro Sangiorgi, journalist and founder of Porthos racconta and Porthos Edizioni. This is followed by importer and restaurateur Leonardo Camboni, who talks about “Natural Wine in Northern Europe with Focus on Denmark. Perception and consumption.” Then it is Pietro Pitzalis‘ turn, founder and director of Reporter Gourmet, to deal with “Natural Wines in Contemporary Catering.” Closing moment again with Sandro Sangiorgi whose turn it is to present the educational project dedicated to restaurateurs “The pairing of wine with food. Why you should not talk about pairing or pairing.”
• from 3 p.m. workshop “The invisible heart of transformation: how the yeast strain shapes the identity of a wine “by academic Marilena Budroni, scientific manager of theMbds-Unisscc Collection of theUniversity of Sassari.
• 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m .tasting booths and free chats with produttos
• 5 p.m.Tasting tour “A walk in the wine trails with Gianpaolo Giacobbo, owner of Arkè Distribuzione. (Italian and English)

Monday, May 25 – Day dedicated to press and operators

• 09:30 a.m. – 1 p.m .tasting tables and free chats with producers
• 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Educational Lunch: Vite e vite closes with a class on pairing wines with dishes dedicated to industry professionals. It is set at Noir Restaurant & Cocktail Bar (at No. 6 Square Feb. 23). Teaching wine’s ability to approach cuisines far from its territory is expert Sandro Sangiorgi.

Food and Music

Accompanying the wine tastings, both Saturday and Sunday, are expected to be innovative food offerings devised by Pasta Vibes’ traveling farm kitchen.

There is no shortage of notes with two concerts by Federico Marras Perantoni intrio, in collaboration with the association Sarditudine – Festival Internazionale Isole che parlano. The first time featuring Federico Marras Perantoni (voice) accompanied by Carlo Doneddu (guitars) and Enrico Severini (voice, guitars, cajon, effects) takes place on Saturday, May 23 at 7 p.m.: “Anzeni A/Live.” The second, “History of a Bomb: From De André to Popular Fight Song and Back,” is instead scheduled from 6 p.m. Sunday, May 24.

Toward Earth Mother

Once again this year, with the claim “The Revolution Begins at the Table,” the entire event is included in “The Road to Terra Madre,” that rich calendar of global initiatives on the main themes of the new edition of Terra Madre, Slow Food’s major international event dedicated to food politics, scheduled to take place in Turin from September 24 to 27. And after the winemakers, the spotlight will be on the producers who will gather at Casa Slow Food Sardegna from May 31 to June 2 (detailed events will be presented in the coming days).

Information

On the Vite e Vite website all the details about participating companies and conventions related to the event

June Slow receives the patronage and support, in addition to the Municipality of La Maddalena, of: Fondazione di Sardegna, CCIAA of Sassari – Network Salude & Trigu, Regione Sardegna – Assessorato del Turismo, and the patronage of Ente Parco dell’Arcipelago di La Maddalena and the University of Sassari thanks to the collaboration with the Vite e Vite project.