Upcoming Wine Tasting: “Il Sud Italia” — A Journey Through the South

August 15 & 16  | Wines of Campania · Sicilia · Sardegna

Held at all three locations: Divino Taipei, Focoso Taipei, and Divino Tianmu

Once a quarter, we stop selling wine and start telling its story properly.

These pairing lunches are not built to be profitable, and that is the point. They exist because a wine list, however carefully written, can only say so much. Behind every bottle we pour is a farm we know, a family we buy from, and a set of decisions — about soil, about patience, about restraint — that deserve more than a line of small print on a menu. Four times a year, we sit you down and pour those decisions by the glass.

This edition travels south. Campania, Sicilia, Sardegna — the Italy of volcanic slopes and salt wind, where the wines carry sun and stone in equal measure.

The Table

We open with our 24-hour sourdough focaccia, butter and anchovy, and a glass of Fratelli Cosmo Prosecco — a northern handshake before the journey begins.

Then south. Grilled radicchio with smoked scamorza, poured alongside Tenute Dettori's Renosu Rosso — Cannonau from Romangia, farmed the way Sardinians have always farmed it, honest and unpolished in the best sense.

The second antipasto is ours entirely: Wagyu prosciutto, M9 striploin that we salt-cure and dry-age in-house, sliced thin. With it, Tasca d'Almerita's Etna Rosso, grown on the volcano's black soils.

The primo is hand-rolled spaghettoni with sea urchin, lifted by a Zibibbo from Vini Felici — Sicilian sunlight in aromatic form.

And then the reason many of you will come: the costata, dry-aged 60 days in our own aging room. Sixty days is where the transformation completes itself — the concentration, the depth, the faint sweetness that only time produces. We pair it with a wine that understands time the same way: Pago dei Fusi Taurasi DOCG 2009, Aglianico from Campania with seventeen years behind it.

We finish with Basque cheesecake and limoncello, because journeys should end warmly.

The Details

Five glasses, five courses, NT$2,880 per person (plus 10% service).

• Saturday, August 15, 12:30 PM — Divino Taipei (Anhe Road) and Focoso Taipei (Tonghua Street)

• Sunday, August 16, lunch — Divino Tianmu

And one more thing: during the event, the wines on the table — and others from these producers — will be available by the bottle to take home, at prices we only offer on these afternoons. If something moves you at the table, it can follow you home.

Seats are limited at all three venues. Book through your preferred Divino location at https://inline.app/booking/-MQAcSGde2yhBosii3gs:inline-live-2?language=en or send us an email with your reservation request at reserve@divinorestaurants.tw

Good Food. Good Wines. Great Times.