Barrique nr. 10
Auction Base – Barrique nr. 10
Galloni’s Opinion
I was asked a little while ago, which is my favourite wine in this flight, and it might very well be barrique number ten. It has this beautiful dark fruit, wonderfully filled out shoulders, power, energy. There’s just a wonderful sense of completeness here. The fruit is a little bit darker than in some of the other wines in this vintage. The wine has kind of a raw energy, a sort of stallion. It’s not fully formed. Some of the wines in this tasting are a little bit easier to deal with. This wine is a wine that demands a lot from the taster. But that’s what I love in really beautiful wines. And so, the barrique number ten has a lot going for it. I love it. Again, that sort of virile, almost sombre personality and the fact that it’s not a wine that gives you everything immediately. So, this would be another fascinating wine to follow in its evolution. But there’s just an awful lot going on in this, in this wine right now. So that’s wine number ten.
The project
The China-Italy Philanthropy Forum is a cross-cultural dialogue and action research platform dedicated to fostering collaboration between European and Chinese philanthropic organizations. Its goal is to promote joint initiatives in the fields of environmental protection, sustainability, education, the empowerment of women and youth, and the development of intergenerational philanthropy.
It is also a project aimed at co-creating training programs in Italy and across Europe for the new generations of Chinese philanthropists and managers of philanthropic organizations.
The China-Italy Philanthropy Forum promotes mutual understanding and trust between European and Chinese philanthropic actors through dialogue and concrete forms of collaboration in humanitarian assistance, education, environmental protection, social inclusion, and intergenerational philanthropy. Established in 2019 on the initiative of the TOChina Hub at the University of Turin and coordinated by the Torino World Affairs Institute (T.wai), the Forum today stands as one of the world’s most advanced non-governmental experiences of philanthropic cooperation with China. In November 2024 its founding agreement was renewed in Beijing in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella, during his State Visit to China – a testament to the strength and institutional significance of the path undertaken. The Forum’s mission is to build trust-based relationships and co-create shared projects between European and Chinese foundations committed to long-term, sustainable collaboration in philanthropy, with the aim of promoting human development in Europe, in China, and in regions most exposed to humanitarian crises. Among its key achievements is the establishment, in 2025, of the China-Europe Philanthropy Innovation Research Centre at Peking University, a center of excellence dedicated to advancing philanthropic collaboration with Europe. Among its forthcoming initiatives is an innovative training program in Italy and Europe for the new generations of Chinese and European philanthropists – a unique opportunity to foster creative synergies among actors essential to the resilience and sustainable growth of societies that, while different, share the responsibility of addressing global challenges together.