Sangiovese e Salsicce Celebration Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 June (Queen's Birthday weekend) Cellar door 10am - 5pm

Sangiovese is the great Tuscan red. Salsicce are traditionally made Italian pork sausages. We love them both, so we have created an event to celebrate them!

Saturday sees the 10th anniversary of our Sangiovese é Salsicce long lunch. An Italian feast, wine and entertainment, $160per person. The 2011 long lunch is now booked out but you can still visit cellar door and enjoy a King's Platter or coffee and selection of cakes, see our menu.

You don't have to book a table to enjoy Sunday's warming fare. We will have plenty of warm places to sit and feast. Lunch is being served from 11.30am and will include;
• Celeriac soup with Milawa Bakery Ciabatta (Vegetarian)
• Nonno Roberto's pork and fennel salsicce with potato polenta and sauerkraut
• Rolled and roasted whole suckling pig with potato polenta and sauerkraut
• Red wine braised duck on lentil stew
• Nonna Rosetta's traditional lasagne with salad
• Nonna Rosetta's vegetarian lasagne with salad (Vegetarian)
• Barbecued ocean trout on Roman mashed potato
• Sangiovese poached cotechino on lentil stew

There is also Antipasto, Desserts (all $10) & Coffee in cellar door on both Saturday & Sunday;
• King's Platter – a selection of French and Italian cheeses, homemade duck neck sausage and cured meats $23
• Nonna Rosetta's apple strudel with rich cream
• Raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake with berry coulis
• Granny's lemon meringue pie with rich cream
• Warmed chocolate pudding
• White chocolate and rhubarb tart with vincotto glaze
Roving gypsy jazz band Bric a Brac will woo the crowd while Maurice Milani will play songs from the 60s to now for you to get up and groove. In cellar door you can taste our new vintage wines Pinot Grigio 2011, Arneis 2011 and Il Barone 2008.

Our Sangiovese é Salsicce celebration is an event that is part of the Winemakers of the King Valley ‘A Weekend Fit for a King' food and wine festival. Festival wine tasting glasses are $15 each, these can be used at all participating King Valley wineries.

No BYO alcohol, food or pets.

For further details contact Katrina Pizzini P: 03 5729 8278 or email talkdirect@pizzini.com.au