Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 1370 in which Marc Millon interviews Antonio Arrighi of Arrighi Winery on the Island of Elba. More about Arrighi: “At first, when I was still a boy, I used to come to the cellar as a favor for my father . The activity I liked was staying in the hotel…I became passionate about viticulture in the early 90s, when we started experimenting with the Arezzo Viticulture Research Center… The experience with the Arezzo Viticulture Research Center led me to devote myself totally to the cellar and the quality of the wines, leaving my job as a hotelier to become a winemaker ” says Antonio. “The vineyard area was only 2 hectares. Today it is about 8 hectares and still expanding,” says Antonio… In 2010 The amphorae arrive Experimentation begins with the first terracotta amphora from Impruneta. “We were looking for a container that had the same micro-oxygenation characteristics as wood, but which, unlike wood, did not transfer substances to the wine,” said Antonio. “So we arrived at the amphorae , recoveri