Tony Loeb

🍻 The Slow Wine Fair 2025, held from February 23 to 25 in BolognaFiere's pavilion 15, features the fifth edition of Fiera dell’Amaro d’Italia, attracting 26 exhibitors from 13 Italian regions. Notable mentions include Amaro del Centenario from Piedmont, Pelinkovac by Knez Spirits from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Roby Marton Gin by Eleven Trade from Veneto, Lazio's Distillerie Capitoline, and the historic Amaro Lucano from Basilicata. The event celebrates artisanal spirits and showcases local sustainable cultivation, with a special Mixology Lab area for exhibitors and bartenders to demonstrate unique cocktails.

🍪 Ar.pa Lieviti, a Bologna-based company with over 50 years of experience, specializes in kitchen preparations and offers a wide range of sugars, including superfine sugars with vanilla aroma or natural vanilla fragments, available in sizes from 125g packets to 5kg bags. The company introduces Mantobianco, a water-repellent dusting powder enhanced with coconut and cocoa vegetable oils to increase resistance without altering taste. Specifically designed for display pastries to maintain a fresh-dusted look for hours, Mantobianco is ideal for baked goods and fried sweets like torta paradiso, krapfen, and carnival treats. Produced in Ozzano dell’Emilia (BO) and packaged in 10kg bags, Mantobianco is available for purchase on arpalieviti.shop. Ar.pa Lieviti handles 360 tons of sugar annually, targeting professional labs, pastry shops, and the HORECA sector with exclusive products like Mantobianco.