Italian Wine Podcast

Welcome to Episode 1196 in which Marc Millon interviews Monica Larner in this installment of Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon on the Italian Wine Podcast. More about today’s guest: Monica Larner is a wine critic and author based in Rome. She is the Italian Reviewer for The Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com, the bimonthly wine publication and website founded by wine critic, Robert Parker. She was selected in 2013 by Parker to replace the departing Antonio Galloni. In 2003, Larner was selected to be the very first dedicated Italian wine editor for Wine Enthusiast. She is also a two-time winner of the Best Young Journalist of the Year (2008, 2010), one of the top honors given out yearly at the Vinitaly exposition. In 2012, Larner won Best International Journalist also presented by the Comitato Grandi Cru d'Italia panel at VinItaly. As of 2013, Larner is the only wine journalist to have won one of these top prizes in wine journalism three times. Through her work at The Wine Advocate, Larner's opinion on Ita