Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 1567 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner – In this episode, Gianluca Queiroli interviews Raffaele Boscaini 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 After being an international tax consultant for 20 years, Gianluca made a career switch and joined the wine industry 8 years ago. Originally from Italy, he is now based in the Boston area where he owns and runs Wine Empire, a fine wine retailer. Gianluca holds a law degree, a Master in Accounting & International Tax, and speaks fluently three languages. He also dedicated himself to many aspects of the wine world: tasting events, writing, wine education. He became an Italian Wine Ambassador & Educator (through Vinitaly International Academy) in 2019 and is a certified French Wine Scholar, Ameri

Welcome to Episode 1569; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Roberto Perrone Capano from Azienda Agricola Santa Lucia in Puglia 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 origins of Santa Lucia date back to 1628 when Marc Antonio Perrone earned 60 annual ducats of feudal revenue above the town of Quarati. Quarati is the modern day Corato, where on the Santa Lucia holding at about 300 meters above sea level, entirely organically farmed, one finds the selected clones of local vines from the Murgia area: Nero di Troia for red wines, Bombino Nero for Rosè, and Fiano for white wine. Murgia is located in the foothills of Castel del Monte, the famous octagon

Welcome to Episode 1568, Bridging the Communication Gap with New Technology in the Fine Wine Supply Chain with Nick Palmer moderated by Pietro Russo 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 forum, held annually in Verona Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals eager to develop and grow their wine business worldwide. More about today’s discussion With the rise in technological innovations, the industry is pivoting how wine businesses worldwide communicate wine information accurately between systems, players in the supply chain, and consumers. The fine wine market and the trade have long suffered from problems associated with product names, making manual transactions prone to errors and ultimately costing more time and money. With the Liv-ex Wine Identification Numbers (LWINs), wine businesses can integrate

Welcome to Episode 1566, in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews Marilee Bramhall in this installment of Voices, on the Italian Wine Podcast. More about today’s guest Marilee Bramhall vividly remembers her first sip of wine; a left bank Bordeaux paired with a delightful dinner prepared by her Dad. That single sip has led to a lifetime of curiosity and wonder. After nearly a decade in the WA and CA wine industry Marilee began her study of old-world wines. Over 10 years have passed since beginning this chapter of her career in wine which has included countless hours of study, travel and becoming a wine entrepreneur/detective; importing naturally made wines from French and Italian women winemakers at the top of their game. These wines are available for purchase at iolawines.com. Marilee has completed with the Highest Honors the certifications for French Wine Scholar and Italian Wine Scholar and WSET Level 3 with Merit. In addition, Marilee has completed programs with the Bureau Interprofessionel des Vins De Bourgogn

Welcome to Episode 1565 on Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he will be interviewing Alicia Lini of Lini910 More about today’s guest: Alicia Lini represents the fourth generation of the Lini family, producers of some of Italy’s most acclaimed and highly rated sparkling wines. Since 1910, when they first established their winery in Correggio township (Reggio Emilia province, in the region of Emilia-Romagna), they have never followed the trends or fashions that have driven Lambrusco production in this century and the last. Connect: Facebook: www.facebook.com/LINI910/about Website: www.lini910.it/ More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the author

Welcome to Episode 1564 on Italian Wine Podcast, Masterclass US Wine Market With Juliana Colangelo. Today, she will be interviewing Jeff Porter & Danielle Callegari More about today’s guests Danielle Callegari joins the Wine Enthusiast tasting team as one of the two new tasters for Italy. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and Councilor of the Dante Society of America. Dr. Callegari’s teaching and research focus on premodern Italian literature and food and beverage studies. She has published on a variety of subjects including Dante, early modern women’s writing and religion, and Italian food and politics from the premodern to the contemporary. Her first monograph, “Dante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy,” was published in 2022. Callegari is also the co-host of Gola, a podcast on Italian food and beverage culture. Jeff Porter joins the Wine Enthusiast tasting team as the second new taster for Italy. His sommelier career began i

Welcome to Episode 1561 on another episode of “On The Road Edition”, hosted by Stevie Kim. Today we are bringing you a throwback (the first of several to come) to Stevie’s conversation series “Wonderful Women in Wine” recorded on instalive during the pandemic. In this episode Stevie sits down with Ayana Misawa More about today’s winery Japan has four seasons that transition seamlessly and vividly. The sensitivity to delicate flavours and careful, robust techniques cultivated under the Japanese cultural climate have become characteristics of Japanese culture. Grace Wine aims to pick out Japan's best and embrace it in its wines. We select vineyards based on the amount of sunlight, diurnal temperature differences, drainage, wind flow, and other factors, and our grape growing has been devised in constant dialogue with natural conditions. Harvesting is done by hand with careful and thorough grape selection. The winery strives to bring out the full potential of the grapes nurtured in the vineyards. By weaving toget

Welcome to Episode 1563 in which host Victoria Cece interviews Lorenzo Piccin Grifalco of Grifalco Winery 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 The Grifalco company was founded in 2004 by the desire of Fabrizio and Cecilia Piccin to start a new path after having produced Nobile di Montepulciano for 20 years, focusing on what is considered the most important grape variety in southern Italy; the project is currently carried out by their sons Lorenzo and Andrea. The company has a surface of 16 hectares with age of the vineyards ranging from 10 years up to 80 years, divided into several municipalities of the Vulture, this because being able to work with different land allows you to have greater complexity in the wines that are produced. To date, the vineyards are located in the municipalities of Maschito, Forenza, Ginestra and Venosa, where the cellar also resides. Lorenzo, 30, studied Viticul

Welcome to Episode 1562 – Part 34 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: Sardegna 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 out the s

Welcome to Episode 1560, 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 Massimiliano Menon! 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 m

Welcome to Episode 1559; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Luca Avenanti from Cantina Terracruda in Marche Stevie Kim and her team travelled 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: Terracruda is the result of the vision and commitment of our family, who decided to enhance the native vines, authentic guardians of the identity and uniqueness of the Marche region. We are proud to cultivate, on an area of ​​over 15 hectares, unique varieties such as the DOC Bianchello del Metauro, the timeless Sangiovese and the rare Aleatico di Pergola as well as ancient local varieties saved from oblivion thanks to the foresight of our winemaker Giancarlo Soverchia with whom since 2004 the Incrocio Br

Welcome to Episode 1558, Lost art of listening with Oscar Farinetti, moderated by Stevie Kim 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 forum, held annually in Verona Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals eager to develop and grow their wine business worldwide. More about today’s speaker: Oscar Farinetti (full name Natale Oscar Farinetti) was born on the 24th of September, during harvest time, in 1954, an excellent vintage for wine in Alba, the capital of the Langhe, by mother Bianca from Barolo, and father Paolo from Barbaresco. He lives on the tip of a hill, among his vineyards. He founded Unieuro (electronics) and then Eataly (food). At the end of 2020 he launched his third major project: Green Pea, a huge department store entirely dedicated to high quality and design non-food products, but at the same

Welcome to Episode 1557 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner – In this episode, Angelo Secolo Interviews Matteo Catania. 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 Angelo Secolo was born in Sicily, living in the USA since 2009. Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers since March 2017, Vinitaly Academy Wine Ambassador since July 2021 and Orvieto Wine Ambassador from July 2022. 5StarWines Judge in 2023 14 years’ experience in restaurants, Italy, Europe and New York, I have been working with wine for the last seven years, I built two wine programs, won the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for the wine list at Cicala Restaurant in Philadelphia in 2020; 2022; 2023 Working as Sommelier and Wine buyer for Altomontes Market in Doylestown, PA. Passion

Welcome to Episode 1555 on Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he will be interviewing Brad Horne More about today’s guest: Brad Horne A Social Media wine communicator and presenter, Brad has - with his Instagram show #WineSocial Live - brought the wine world to people’s phones and living rooms over the last few years. Brad has also been a judge at IWSC, IWEA and 5star Wines in Verona. Has also writes content for producers and wine websites and over the last year has worked with producers to showcase their wines in the UK. He is always looking for incredible stories and enjoys meeting fantastic wine industry professionals and bringing their stories to the wine world and consumers alike. Connect: Email: winetimelondon@gmail.com More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropo

Welcome to Episode 1556, in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews Michelle Schromm in this installment of Voices, on the Italian Wine Podcast. More about today’s guest Empowering Change in the Wine Industry, For Women in Wine: Bâtonnage is dedicated to creating lasting change within the wine industry by supporting and empowering women at any phase in their career, through Mentorship, Networking, and Community Building. The Bâtonnage Forum was founded in 2018 with the intention of stirring up the conversation about women in wine. What started as a grassroots event attended by over 300 people, has grown into a diverse network of women from more than 25 states and 15 countries, in all stages of careers. With a constant focus on real-life impact, Bâtonnage launched the progressive and impactful Mentorship program in 2020, and in 2021 became a 501c(3) organization. Today, our network includes a large and growing community of more than 2,500 women wine professionals, supported by over fifty industry professionals who vo

Welcome to Episode 1554 on Italian Wine Podcast, Masterclass US Wine Market With Juliana Colangelo. Today, she will be interviewing Peter Mondavi Jr. More about today’s guest Peter Mondavi Jr. is the second son of Peter and Blanche Mondavi and grandson of Cesare and Rosa Mondavi, the Napa Valley pioneers who purchased the historic Charles Krug Winery in 1943. As co-proprietor with his brother Marc, he works on issues of strategic importance, including stewardship of the family legacy. Peter, born in 1958, grew up on the winery property. He may have started his education at the winery, but following in his father's footsteps, he attended Stanford University, earning a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in engineering management and an MBA a decade later. His engineering background has proved a valuable asset to the winery as he has directed a number of key design projects, including the development of a state-of-the-art winemaking facility. His business education has also greatly contributed to the developmen

Welcome to Episode 1553 in which host Victoria Cece interviews Sabrina Faricelli & Samuele Radica of Tenuta Arabona Organic Wines 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 Tenuta Arabona, founded in 2006, is the prosecution of the farm that my parents, Pasquale and Dina, passionate winemakers, have created in the late 60’s.After completing my studies in farming, I have completely dedicated myself to the company by increasing its size and starting a slow and deep restructuring. The company, still family owned, covers an area of 20 hectares of vineyards and approximately 1.5 hectares of olive groves. I cultivate typical Abruzzo’s vines such as Montepulciano, Trebbiano, Pecorino, and international vine such as Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. Since 1991 I adopted the methods of organic farming and, in 2006, with my wife Maria Antonietta, I realized a dream pursued for a long time: transform nat

Welcome to Episode 1552 – Part 33 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: Sicilia 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 out the so

Welcome to Episode 1551 on another episode of “On The Road Edition”, hosted by Stevie Kim. Today we are bringing you a throwback (the first of several to come) to Stevie’s conversation series “Wonderful Women in Wine” recorded on instalive during the pandemic. In this episode Stevie sits down with Andrea Mullineux More about today’s guest Andrea developed her passion for wine at the family dinner table, growing up in San Francisco. After studying Viticulture and Oenology at UC Davis, and completing a handful of harvests in the Napa Valley, Andrea worked in Stellenbosch, and then in Chateauneuf where on the same trip, she met Chris at a wine festival in Champagne! Andrea’s love for South African wine (and Chris) brought her back to South Africa where they learnt that their compatibility extended into the vineyards and cellar. In 2014 Andrea was invited to join the Cape Winemakers Guild and in 2016 she was awarded International Winemaker of the Year by Wine Enthusiast. When Andrea is not hard at work in the cel

Welcome to Episode 1549; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Gianfelice d’Alfonso of d’Alfonso del Sordo Cellars Stevie Kim and her team travelled 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 D’Alfonso del Sordo’s vine growing and wine producing family tradition dates back to 1800, when some members of the family, enthusiastic farmers, began to cultivate vines in the family estates located in San Severo countryside: The baron Antonio Del Sordo, who had intended part of his estates located in San Severo and Lucera to vine growing, and Ludovico D’Alfonso, passionate vine grower, who already chose the best grapes from his vines at that time and vinified them in the basement of his house. I