"WINE OF PEACE" THE CORMÒNS WINE PRODUCERS PROJECT THAT HOLDS THE "WORLD IN A GLASS", TURNED 30 IN 2013 AND THE CONCLUDING CELEBRATION WAS HELD IN ROME ON JANURARY 27TH. FOCUS: FROM BAJ TO FO, THE HISTORY OF SIGNATURE LABELS

The Cormòns Winery "Wine of Peace" project, unique in its genre and intent turned 30 in 2013. The project started in 1983 on the idea to plant grape vines from the five continents - from Sirah to Tulilah, Shurrebe, Pedral and Maizy, but also the well known Marzemino, Teran, Merlot, Gamay and Ucelut - 855 today, in a single vineyard "The World Vineyard" in Cormòns in Friuli, and produce a wine capable of preserving and promoting a strong message of peace and brotherhood throughout the world (the first in 1985). It was also a canvas for artists and a blank page for poets, with exceptional testimonials ranging from Enrico Baj to Salvatore Fiume, Giacomo Manzu, Dario Fo, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Matta, Mimmo Rotella, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mimmo Paladino, Fernando Botero and Yoko Ono, to name just a few. The wine is also given as a gift to Heads of State worldwide.
Concluding celebrations were held on January 27th at "Il Pagliaccio" in Rome, the Michelin-starred restaurant headed by chef Anthony Genovese and Marion Lichtle, with a dinner starring many names in food and wine to celebrate the achievements and success of the project. 2013 was chock full of events for "Wine of Peace" and its message of unity as well as nominating the "Ambassadors of Wine of Peace". There was also a special harvest just like in 1985, where students of the United World College in Duino, from over 80 countries, participated. The new vintage wine was presented in Rome, along with its precious labels made in 2012 by the artist Emilio Isgro along with Arrigo Levi, journalist and writer, painter Enrico Castellani and Alexander Rivals Kengiro Azuma, whose work will be accompanied by the poems of Isabella Panfido. And Winery Cormòns conferred the title of "Ambassador of Wine of Peace" to the restaurant "Il Pagliaccio" and its chef sommelier Matthew Zappile.
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Focus – History: here are the artists who have designed the labels of "Wine of Peace"

1985 Enrico Baj

1985 Arnaldo Pomodoro

1985 Zoran Music

1986 Erick Dietman

1986 Luciano Minguzzi

1986 Gianni Dova

1987 Fernand Arman

1987 Daniel Spoerri

1987 Salvatore Fiume

1988 Pietro Consagra

1988 Piero Dorazio

1988 Giuseppe Santomaso

1989 Giacomo Manzù

1989 Nam June Paik

1989 Milan Knizak

1990 Vladimir Velickovic

1990 Giorgio Celiberti

1990 Philippe Garel

1991 Darko Bevilacqua

1991 Mimmo Rotella

1991 Chema Cobo

1992 Aligi Sassu

1992 Ibrahim Kodra

1992 Matias Quetglas

1993 Leonor Finì

1993 Maria Luisa Belcastro Schneidersitz

1993 Milvia Maglione

1994 Walter Valentini

1994 Matta

1995 Alberto Gianquinto

1995 Miguel Berrocal

1995 Ugo Nespolo

1996 Karla Dickens

1996 Jiri Anderle

1996 Joe Tilson

1997 Vico Calabrò

1997 Cyr Frimout

1997 Robert Rauschenberg

1998 Ernesto Treccani

1998 Yoko Ono

1998 Corneille

1999 Hidetoshi Nagasawa

1999 Mario Ceroli

1999 Emilio Tadini

2000 Michelangelo Pistoletto

2000 Igor Mitoraj

2000 Dario Fo

2001 Robert Carrol

2001 Iwan Kulik

2001 Gilberto Zorio

2002 Pablo Atchugarry

2002 Lucio Del Pezzo

2002 Giuseppe Maraniello

2003 Franco Dugo

2003 Marco Lodola

2003 Hsiao Chin

2004 Mimmo Paladino

2004 Armando Morales

2004 Jean Michel Folon

2005 Gianni Bertini

2005 Evgeni Dybsky

2005 Achille Perilli

2006 Valerio Adami

2006 Concetto Pozzati

2006 Alfredo Sosa Bravo

2007 Fernando Botero

2007 Fabrizio Plessi

2007 Yoshin Ogata

2008 Bruno Ceccobelli

2008 Philip Corner

2008 Omar Galliani

2009 Nag Arnoldi
2009 Piero Gilardi

2009 Piero Guccione

2010 Agostino Bonalumi

2010 Kcho, Alexis Leyva Machado

2010 Roberto Barni

2011 Medhat Shafik

2011 Claude Viallat

2011 Giorgio Griffa

2012 Emilio Isgrò

2012 Enrico Castellani

2012 Kengiro Azuma