To celebrate the end of summer, Giorgio De Maria of Fun Wines will join forces with rising star chef Sarah Cicolini from Santo Palato Restaurant and the uncompromising winemaker Gianmarco Antonuzi from Le Coste, to bring a taste of Rome to Tasmania.

The latest in Giorgio's itinerant series of Fun Dining, the gang are hosting a dinner here at The Agrarian Kitchen Eatery in collaboration with Rodney Dunn and Luke Burgess. This will be a celebration of traditional Roman cuisine alongside the minimal intervention wines from Bolsena Lake.

The menu will be curated by Sarah Cicolini, celebrating iconic classics from her revered 35-seat Roman restaurant Santo Palato and will be based on local and seasonal ingredients sourced by Luke Burgess and Rodney Dunn.

The wines will be an extended selection of current and back vintages from Le Coste. Their local varieties, including procanico, aleatico, greghetto (a local clone of sangiovese), grown with the highest respect to agriculture, vinified without additions, aged in a 500-year-old underground cellar and bottled without preservatives. Pure and delicious. Gianmarco Antonuzi, the master himself, will be here.

We will be offering a wine flight to accompany Sarah's food and a very deep and eclectic by-the- bottle selection. This collaboration is a dream come true for everyone.

Price: $145 pp (4 course set menu, including Le Coste wine flight)
Note: This event is communal seating.

ABOUT

Sarah Cicolini

Born in 1988, in the countryside of Abruzzo, Sarah grew up spending lots of time with her grandparents, who were local farmers. It was in their home she learnt the rhythm of the season and the conviviality of the table. Sarah moved to Rome to study medicine, working in restaurants to supplement her income. It was not long before Sarah decided to abandon university and become a full time chef. In 2017 she opened Santo Palato, a contemporary trattoria, where dishes are inspired by seasonality, quality of ingredients, authenticity and tradition. Her menu changes daily based on what she finds at the markets and what her butcher, Liberati, has to offer.

"... Cicolini's food is thoughtful & never sacrifices tradition on the altar of useless innovation..." Katie Parla, NY Times.
Beyond the cooking, Sara is also taking care of the wine selection at Santo Palato. Gianmarco has always been her idol and 'spiritual master', she says, his wines were the first to really inspire her.

Gianmarco Antonuzi

Gianmarco Antonuzi and his wife Clementine Bouveron tend around 14 hectares of land, with vineyards and olive groves sitting around the volcanic Lake Bolsena, in Gianmarco's childhood town of Gradoli in Lazio. Gianmarco, after studying law in Rome, spent time working as a food and wine journalist. It was there he started to taste some very distinctive wines and decided on a career change. Before returning to his native land to make his own wine, Gianmarco decided to spend time with some of those French winemakers who inspired him. From 2002 to 2005 he worked in Alsace with Bruno Shueller (where he met his wife Clementine), Leon de Barral in Languedoc, Darde & Ribot in Rhone Valley, La Pierre in Beaujoulais and Pacalet in Bourgogne. His wine reflects the lessons of these years, with a strict adherence to conscientious agriculture (they're vineyards are certified organic, but their practices go beyond that in many senses - a conversation best had over a glass of wine!) and concise, clean winemaking.

A gluttonous gourmand, who is very fond of authentic Roman cuisine, the honor is to see his wines drunk with Sara's incredible food, rediscovering ancient flavours between the wine and food.
Giorgio De Maria Fun Wines

Giorgio De Maria Fun Fines is a wine distribution company focused on small producers mainly from Italy with tentacles going into France and Spain. The focus is artisan, chemical-free agriculture, minimal intervention in wine making but most importantly delicious wines that show distinctiveness from different people and places, as wine should be.
An advocate for wine that is shared over with food and friends, this is the fourth in his series of his Fun- Dining, this is about the simple pleasure of bringing the best of Rome to Australia.

Date: 1st of March 2019
Time: 7pm