Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 1587 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner – In this episode, Giulia Stocchetti interviews Francesco Rizzo. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and replayed here on the Italian Wine Podcast! Listen in on this series as Italian Wine Ambassadors all over the world chat with Stevie and their chosen wine producer. Which producer would you interview if you had your pick? Co-Moderator Giulia is an AIS Sommelier and holds the WSET Diploma. She has 360° experience in the cellar, harvesting, tasting and teaching. Enthusiastic communicator of wine, she believes every bottle is a small universe to discover and her slogan is “sharing wine means love.” She’s passionate about terroir wines made with autochthonous grape varieties and constantly looking for them and their small producers. Connect: Facebook: Giulia Stocchetti Caravaggi Instagram: theWineSoulGirl LinkedIn: Giulia Stocchetti Caravaggi Guest Producer Francesco Rizzo, after years spent dealing with finance for an internati

Welcome to Episode 1588, Crisis of international wine PR with Francesco Minetti (Translated in English). This is the wine2wine Business Forum 2022 Series. The sessions are recorded and uploaded on Italian Wine Podcast. wine2wine Business Forum is an international wine business event, held annually in Verona, Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals gather to develop and expand their wine business worldwide. Abstract: Wine communication has always aimed to ensure visibility and reputation, thus allowing growth in terms of volume and value. While wine brands have increasingly sought visibility and reputation in recent years, the traditional players who can skillfully meet this need have significantly decreased in number. At the same time, the amount of easily accessible content on corporate social media sites and channels has grown exponentially. Unfortunately, these types of content rarely acquire visibility, thus creating little added

Welcome to Episode 1589; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Joy Livingston and Enrico Mandirola of Mandirola Vini Stevie Kim and her team traveled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon! Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days. More about today’s winery: The history of Mandirola wine originates in 1913 when my great-grandfather Enrico purchased a company founded at the beginning of the 19th century and known with the name of “ Il Muntagnei ” (which in the local dialect means “small mountain”). The property then consisted of approximately 10/12 hectares, mostly cultivated with vines, wheat and corn. Later, in the 1950s, my grandfather Giovanni together with his sons Lino, Mario, Bruno and Giorgio continued the company and began producing small quantities of wine. Only a

Welcome to Episode 1586, in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews Gianluca Calì of the Al-Cantàra winery in this installment of Voices, on the Italian Wine Podcast. Al-Cantàra won the Gran Vinitaly 5StarWines “Winery of the Year” and the “Best Rosé Wine” for its Etna DOC Nerello Mascalese Rosato Amuri di Fimmina e Amuri di Matri 2021. More about today’s guest From the happy intuition that a good wine is "poetry" and to make it takes "art", Al-Cantàra was born in 2005. Since the beginning, the winery has established itself at a national and international level thanks to the high quality of its wines, recognized by several important awards and, last but not the least, by the amazing results achieved both at Vinitaly, where with seven wines reported in the 5 StarWines - The Book, Al-Cantàra has been the second most awarded winery in Sicily and the sixth in Italy, and at Decanter where, with a gold medal and two silver medals, Al-Cantàra has been the first winery of Etna for number of important awards. These results h

Welcome to Episode 1585 on Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he will be interviewing Ben Little More about today’s guest: A Dubliner by birth, Ben Little is an author, blogger, multi-media artist and poet whose devotion to the native grapes of Friuli Venezia Giulia in northeast Italy thrust him into the creatively unpredictable field of viticulture in the spring of 2016. His 2021 debut title, the award-winning 432-page opus 'Pignolo Cultivating the Invisible', is an extraordinary, genre-bending harvest of imagination and ingenuity. Not to mention perseverance. As the world’s unlikeliest fountain of Pignolo understanding, Ben lives in the northern climes of the Colli Orientali del Friuli where his creative and literary juices continue to ferment and flow. Connect: Website: www.thenativegrapes.com Instagram: @thenativegrapes and @planetpignolo Facebook: @thenativegrapes Twitter: @thenativegrapes More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has

Welcome to Episode 1584 on Italian Wine Podcast, Masterclass US Wine Market With Juliana Colangelo. Today, she will be interviewing Chris Struck. More about today’s guests Chris Struck credits his upbringing in a large, hybrid French-Deeply Southern U.S. family in the coastal city of Destin, Florida as what incited his passion for food and beverage at an early age. He began cooking in Chef Tim Creehan’s fine dining restaurant group at the age of 14 and supplemented his formal restaurant apprenticeship with self-study trips to Europe, working in both kitchens and vineyards to gain greater knowledge of regional cuisines and wines. After completing undergraduate degrees in Culinary Arts & Food Service Management at Johnson & Wales University, Struck gained certifications from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Society of Wine Educators, Court of Master Sommeliers, and Deutsche Wein und Sommelierschule in Germany. Struck holds an Executive MBA in Food Marketing from Saint Joseph's University. He is currently Bev

Welcome to Episode 1583 in which host Victoria Cece interviews Raffaele Bellomi of Archivio Amaro this week on The Next Generation. The Next Generation where Victoria Cece interviews young Italian wine people shaking up the wine scene. More about the bar Archivio is a small bar right in the heart of downtown Verona, few steps away from bustling Piazza Erbe... a place where you can forget about the streets full of tourists and traffic, a place where ticking clocks don't exists... we go about our business the old way, when the products were speaking by themselves.. we get inspiration from the past to offer our guests some forgotten experiences, small little touches that modern society has long forgotten, such as the dialogue with your barman, almost a taylor-like attention to your needs. We are open everyday, so pop in for good tunes, local, unusual wines, a great artisanal local beer and lots of coktails, done the old way.. the right way.. Salute! Connect: Website:archivioverona.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com

Welcome to Episode 1582 –Part 36 of this fantastic wine book series in which Marco Gandini narrates the new Mamma Jumbo Shrimp Guide, Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0. Today, Marco narrates: Lambrusco Family Each week, Marco will provide some new quality edutainment, as he reads from the second edition of this wine geek smorgasbord. Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0, offers a comprehensive guide to the world of Italian wine and winemaking with contributions from Professor Attilio Scienza (including his groundbreaking research on the topic), has won the prestigious OIV - International Organisation of Vine and Wine Award 2023 in the Wines and Territories category. Get a copy on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/ajX2gwN To learn more visit: Website: www.mammajumboshrimp.com More about the Narrator: Marco Gandini is a Communications Manager at Vinitaly International, he also seems to love being a student since he is always studying and harnessing his brain! When he is not helping out with events in the office such as wine2wine, or helping ou

Welcome to Episode 1581 on another episode of “On The Road Edition”, hosted by Stevie Kim. Today she interviews Andrea Sartori of Casa Sartori 1898 More about today’s guest Born in Verona in 1959, Andrea Sartori represents the fourth generation of owners of Casa Sartori 1898, the winery founded in 1898 by Pietro Sartori. After high school, he lived in the United States, where he completed his studies and began his first work experience. When he moved back to Italy, he was responsible for the commercial and communications departments of Casa Vinicola Sartori, focusing at first on the domestic market, and later on foreign ones. Since 2000, he has been the President of Casa Sartori 1898. Besides taking care of the commercial aspects of the company, he is also in charge of the strategic vision of the business. Connect: Facebook: www.facebook.com/CasaSartori1898 Website: casasartori1898.it/ More about the host Stevie Kim: Stevie Kim hosts Clubhouse sessions each week (visit Italian Wine Club & Wine Business on Clu

Welcome to Episode 1580, where Prof. Scienza takes questions from the wine community and answers them in his inimitable way! These shows are generally in the Italian language. Today’s question comes from Yue Chow! If you want to learn more about the Professor: The one who checks all the facts and regulates when we mistakenly type "Verdicchio" in place of "Vermentino.” Attilio Scienza is a full professor at the University of Milan in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences where he teaches courses on genetic improvements to the vine; he also teaches Viticulture in the Master’s program of the University of Turin in Asti. He has been the lead for many national research projects in the field of physiology, agricultural techniques, and vine genetics. As the author of over 350 publications on vine and viticulture in national and international journals, you can bet he knows his stuff! To find out more about Attilio Scienza visit: vinitalyinternational.com/wordpress/via-faqs/ If you want to learn more about

Welcome to Episode 1577 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner – In this episode, Cynthia Chaplin interviews Antonella Cantarutti. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and replayed here on the Italian Wine Podcast! Listen in on this series as Italian Wine Ambassadors all over the world chat with Stevie and their chosen wine producer. Which producer would you interview if you had your pick? Co-Moderator Cynthia Chaplin was born in the USA and moved to Europe in 1990 where she has lived in Spain, Belgium, England and Italy. She is a qualified sommelier with Fondazione Italiana Sommelier, a Vinitialy International Italian Wine Ambassador, a Professor of Italian wine and culture and a certified WSET Educator. She has worked with embassies, corporations and private clients, creating and presenting tastings, events, team building sessions, seminars and in-depth courses. Cynthia expanded her communication within the sector as a wine writer, translator, and a judge at international wine and sake c

Welcome to Episode 1579; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Adriano Gigante Stevie Kim and her team traveled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon! Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days. More about today’s winery: Grandfather Ferruccio was a miller, but his real passion was farming, especially winegrowing. In 1957 he bought the house and the vineyard in the Rocca Bernarda hills, initially focusing on the production of the Friuli white then called Tocai, a wine that goes perfectly with whatever you're eating. We know all this from the stories told by Ferruccio's son Arturo, who took part in that move along with the rest of the family, uprooting from the little town of Vencò, where the mill was located, and settling in what is now the Corno di Rosaz

Welcome to Episode 1578, Segmenting the Fine Wine Consumers with Pauline Vicard and Andrea Lonardi This is the wine2wine Business Forum 2022 Series. The sessions are recorded and uploaded on Italian Wine Podcast. wine2wine Business Forum is an international wine business event, held annually in Verona, Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals gather to develop and expand their wine business worldwide. Abstract: Fine wine consumers are a very specific segment of the wine market. Their profiles, needs and expectations can vary substantially from other wine consumers. From collectors to investors, they all respond to different motivations and buying patterns, that ARENI has been studying for the last four years, gathering both quantitative and qualitative data. This session will explore key insights from ARENI’s latest research on fine wine consumers, and what it means in terms of successful marketing and communication campaign. More abou

Welcome to Episode 1576, in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews Adel Abulkhassanova of Amadei Franco in this installment of Voices, on the Italian Wine Podcast. The winery is awarded the Best Sparkling WIne 2023 Trophy for Emilia Igt Lambrusco Frizzante Primo Fiore N.V., in 5StarWines – the Book wine selection in 2023 More about today’s guest The winery was born in the early sixties from the passion and work of two brothers, Franco and Renato. A story that tells of a growth path that resulted in the rediscovery of the ancestral bond with the earth, with the territory and with the fruits that respectful human work can derive from it. Today, the winery represents one of the largest wine-growing companies in the Parma area, with approximately thirty hectares of owned vineyards managed according to the organic method and a dense network of suppliers of local grapes and wines. Connect: Website: www.amadeivini.it/ Instagram: amadei_vini About today’s Host: Cynthia Chaplin is a VIA certified Italian Wine Ambassador, a

Welcome to Episode 1575 on Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he will be interviewing Giuseppe Mazzarosa More about today’s guest: Cantina Mazzarosa is a historic winery located in the heart of Abruzzo, boasting a rich legacy that began in 1863. It stands as a testament to over 150 years of passionate winemaking, intertwined with the very birth of the Kingdom of Italy, through the visionary leadership of Senator Giuseppe Devincenzi. Senator Devincenzi, not just a political stalwart, but an inventive genius, transformed his property into a pioneering vineyard, introducing innovative techniques now revered in winemaking. The winery is nestled in the esteemed Colline Teramane DOCG region, specifically in Roseto degli Abruzzi, where the vines benefit from a unique terroir enriched by the Vomano River and the Adriatic Sea's proximal breezes. Today, the Mazzarosa Devincenzi estate stands as a living narrative, encapsulating a family's dedication to crafting wines that are a fusion of

Welcome to Episode 1574 on Italian Wine Podcast, Masterclass US Wine Market With Juliana Colangelo. Today, she will be interviewing Erni Loosen. More about today’s guests Erni Loosen is an internationally renowned winemaker and owner of the 200-year-old Dr. Loosen winery in Germany’s. Driven by curiosity and belief that great wine should be true to its roots, Erni has established acclaimed winemaking ventures around the globe. Over more than 30 years, he has propelled Dr. Loosen into the upper echelons of German wines, and helped raise the international reputation of the Mosel region, and Riesling in general. Beyond Germany, Erni has made his mark domestically through a winemaking venture in Washington state and, most recently, at Appassionata Estate in Oregon. As the realization of his long-term vision of establishing a world-class European-style winery in Oregon, Appassionata is dedicated to crafting wines of extraordinary ageability that express the true character of the Willamette Valley. In 2023, Erni is

Welcome to Episode 1573 in which host Victoria Cece interviews Anton Morella of Morella Vini this week on The Next Generation. The Next Generation where Victoria Cece interviews young Italian wine people shaking up the wine scene. More about the winery Our wines are made completely from the grapes produced in our own vineyards, of which, for the most part, are old dry grown Primitivo bush vines on terra rossa. They are cultivated by hand using bio-dynamic principles and the yield rarely exceeds 2 tonnes (2.6 hl) per hectare. Primitivo Old Vines & Primitivo La Signora come from the oldest bush vines. They are testimony to the biodiversity in this area, due mainly to the survival of the old vines, children of the traditional "massali" selection in vineyards practiced over many years. Connect: Website: www.morellavini.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/MORELLA.Primitivo/?v=wall More about the host: Victoria Cece is a food and beverage storyteller whose curiosity is somewhere deep in a bowl of pasta or a bottle of w

Welcome to Episode 1571 on another episode of “On The Road Edition”, hosted by Stevie Kim. Today she interviews Ettore Nicoletto, President and CEO of Angelini Wines & Estates More about today’s guest Ettore Nicoletto began his career at Casa Vinicola Zonin where he held various positions, including that of Exports Director. In 2004, he moved over to Santa Margherita Gruppo Vinicolo, where was appointed General Manager and then CEO from 2008 to 2020. In March 2020, Nicoletto was appointed President & CEO of Angelini Wines & Estates, a group owned by Angelini Industries. Angelini Industries is a multinational industrial group founded in 1919. Today, it is a solid and well-structured industrial company that employs about 5.800 workers and operates in 21 countries in the world with revenues over 2 billion euros. As a recognized member of the industry, Ettore Nicoletto served from 2019 until March 2022 as President of the Lugana wine DOP Consortium and Board Member of Federdoc. He currently holds the positions of

Welcome to Episode 1572 – Part 35 of this fantastic wine book series in which Marco Gandini narrates the new Mamma Jumbo Shrimp Guide, Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0. Today, Marco narrates: Must Know Colorino & Greco Each week, Marco will provide some new quality edutainment, as he reads from the second edition of this wine geek smorgasbord. Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0, offers a comprehensive guide to the world of Italian wine and winemaking with contributions from Professor Attilio Scienza (including his groundbreaking research on the topic), has won the prestigious OIV - International Organisation of Vine and Wine Award 2023 in the Wines and Territories category. Get a copy on Amazon: amzn.eu/d/ajX2gwN To learn more visit: Website: www.mammajumboshrimp.com More about the Narrator: Marco Gandini is a Communications Manager at Vinitaly International, he also seems to love being a student since he is always studying and harnessing his brain! When he is not helping out with events in the office such as wine2wine, or

Welcome to Episode 1570, where Prof. Scienza takes questions from the wine community and answers them in his inimitable way! These shows are generally in the Italian language. Today’s question comes from Valentin Bufolin! If you want to learn more about the Professor: The one who checks all the facts and regulates when we mistakenly type "Verdicchio" in place of "Vermentino.” Attilio Scienza is a full professor at the University of Milan in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences where he teaches courses on genetic improvements to the vine; he also teaches Viticulture in the Master’s program of the University of Turin in Asti. He has been the lead for many national research projects in the field of physiology, agricultural techniques, and vine genetics. As the author of over 350 publications on vine and viticulture in national and international journals, you can bet he knows his stuff! To find out more about Attilio Scienza visit: vinitalyinternational.com/wordpress/via-faqs/ If you want to learn mor