Ep. 601 Whitney Pope | Voices

Italian Wine Podcast Episode 567 | Will Blackmon, the “NFL Wine Guy” Juliana Colangelo of Colangelo & Partners sits down in conversation with Will Blackmon, the “NFL Wine Guy” Will Blackmon played 12 seasons in the NFL. He played for the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, (with whom he won Super Bowl 46), he also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and finished his career with the Washington Redskins. Will’s passion is wine. Due to his strong desire to learn more about wine, he went on to complete his level 2 and level 3 certifications, through the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, also known as the WSET. He also passed his Intro exam through the Court of Master’s Sommelier. Will is now coined as the “NFL Wine Guy”. He launched a VIP Wine Concierge business called, The WINE MVP as a way to educate, make wine more approachable as well as empower those looking to learn more about wine. All of this presented with the idea in mind that when it comes to fine wine, everyone can be an “MVP’. In 2020 Will was named one of Wine Enthusiasts “Top 40 Under 40 Tastemakers” in the United States. He has also been featured in USA Today, Wine Spectator, & Vine Pair to name a few. You can find out more about Will Blackmon by visiting: Website: Thewinemvp.com Instagram: @Thewinemvp Instagram: @willblackmon Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/will-blackmon-a032291a9 Check out our sponsor for this series Colangelo & Partners colangelopr.com/ Thank you Juliana for hosting this series! Follow Juliana Colangelo through any of these channels: Instagram: www.instagram.com/julezcolang/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/jules.colangelo/ Twitter: twitter.com/JulezColang LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-colan…lo-mba-04345539/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/colangelopr/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ColangeloPR Twitter: twitter.com/ColangeloPR LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/colangel…public-relations Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

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Episode 566: Rebecca Lawrence has a chat with the amazing Dame Tonya Pitts An industry changemaker and compassionate role model, Tonya Pitts is known globally as a multi-talented wine professional who catapults wineries, winemakers and brands into the mainstream. Equally important, she is a leader who champions diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, food and beverage industries. Tonya has been a judge for the San Francisco International Wine Competition for five years in a row, a speaker at Culinary Institute of America Summit for Beverage Professionals, a tasting panelist for Wine & Spirits Magazine and an advisor for the Fine Minds4Fine Wines think tank in Europe. In 2017, she was named to the Top 40 African American Tastemakers (Under/Over) 40 list. Of special note, Tonya has been instrumental in the annual Wine Spectator list for more than a decade, including receiving awards for her expansive and inclusive wine program. Tonya has been featured in numerous news and industry publications, including CBS This Morning , ABC 7 News “Sips with Spencer,” Cherry Bombe, Daily Beast, Grape Collective, Janis Robinson, Wine & Spirits Magazine, Somm Journal, Tasting Panel, Where Traveler, Wine Searcher, Wine Stream and Wonder Women of Wine. Get in touch with Tonya! www.tonyapitts.com/about www.instagram.com/noirsommelier/?hl=en Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/

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Episode 565 Monty Waldin interviews Carlo Cignozzi of Il Paradiso di Frassina Cignozzi created the Paradiso di Frassina, in the heart of the Brunello wine area in Montalcino, and wanted to experiment (for the first time in the world) using the beneficial effects of music on vines. “Honestly, I would say that success was not lacking and a committee of the United Nations considered this research as one of the most sustainable projects in the world, calling it "phono organic" and including it in the "Bright Green Book" presented in Rio de Janeiro in June 2011.” He was a Lawyer for almost 40 years in Milan, in 2011, he wrote a book published by Rizzoli "The Vine Whisperer”- L’uomo che sussurra alle Vigne, where Cignozzi tells the story of how he began this magnificent vine music therapy project, imitating the research done centuries ago in the Far East. You can find out more about this fantastic winery by visiting: www.alparadisodifrassina.it/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

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Welcome to this special edition where we talk wines and the Giro D’Italia. We held an exceptional ClubHouse Room dedicated to Giro d’Italia but…it was not recorded. I know, I know, Bummer. But anyway, we thought about sharing some notes about the first stage of the Giro - written and read by Marc Millon - a food, wine, and travel writer, and the author of numerous books as well as magazine articles published on both sides of the Atlantic. Since these bikers will also go through Verona, the city of Vinitaly, there will be more special episodes to come. Stay tuned!

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Episode 564 Steve Raye interviews Paul Mabray CEO of Pix Paul Mabray has been a powerful change agent in the wine industry for over twenty years. He began his career working in traditional three-tier sales and marketing with Napa Ale Works and later innovated direct-to-consumer sales and marketing models with Niebaum Coppola. Since then, he has been at the forefront of all major digital trends for the wine industry, including working with WineShopper.com and Wine.com when they entered the wine-digital space. He founded two companies that have significantly changed the US wine landscape for digital, first by introducing winery e-commerce with Inertia Beverage Group that transformed into WineDirect.com pioneering winery e-commerce, and then again by introducing social media and social customer relationship management with VinTank.com. He is considered the wine industry’s foremost futurist and thought leader, able to harness the power and potential of digital tools and methodologies to move the industry into the future. If you want to find out more about Paul Mabray you can check out his social media and website! Twitter: @pmabray – twitter.com/pmabray Facebook: @pmabray – www.facebook.com/pmabray LinkedIn: @pmabray – www.linkedin.com/in/pmabray/ Website: pix.wine Email: paul@pix.wine For more information on Steve Raye you can check out Bevology inc here www.bevologyinc.com/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

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🎶So there you gone, on, can't make a wife out of a clone on🎶 Hey what's up everybody thanks for tuning in once again during this rainy Friday... If it's not raining, please forgive me, I'm scheduling this episode 7 days in advance so I ain't no future teller and I'm just trying to take a guess on the future. I see it rainy. Rainy rainy rainy. Not rain on me like Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's hit or Purple Rain like the One and Only. Just rain. Meh. Today Scienza will explore the world of biotipo, clone, varietà and Prosciutto. Listen up wine Keengz and Qveenzies.

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Italian Wine Podcast Episode 562 | Mike Provance of 3X3 | Reaching consumers (new and existing) Juliana Colangelo of Colangelo & Partners sits down in conversation with Mike Provance CEO of 3X3 Welcome to this brand-new limited series "Wine Business Talk with Colangelo & Partners" hosted by Juliana Colangelo. This series deals with the wine business and the evolution of technologies in the wine industry; how it's helping consumers and how wineries can effectively use these technologies. Each guest gives listeners valuable guidance on how consumers choose wine, purchase and drink wine. Mike Provance, PhD is a serial entrepreneur, author, and speaker on technology business model innovation and new venture management. As CEO, Mike leads 3x3, a marketing technology company focused on modernizing the ways brands and liquor retailers engage and sell uniquely to the independent channel consumer. A digital and technology strategy expert, Mike has built groundbreaking technology businesses and launched award-winning digital properties over 30 years in financial services, information services, manufacturing and healthcare industries, and with the science and technology offices of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command. Prior to that, he ran early-stage investments in computing and medical technology for the Ben Franklin Partnership. Mike holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University, an M.B.A. from Penn State, and a B.S. in Management Science from M.I.T. About 3x3: 3x3 is a growth marketing company for beer, wine, and spirits brands. The company focuses on democratizing data to help alcohol brands grow according to their goals. How? 3x3 uses proprietary sales data to find ideal local shoppers for brands, then delivers alcohol advertising to them across digital channels. Alcohol brands count on 3x3 to identify, activate, and retain valuable customers who shop through the independent retail channel. You can find out more about Mike Provance of 3X3 by visiting: Website: info.3x3insights.com/brands Check out our sponsor for this series Colangelo & Partners colangelopr.com/ Thank you Juliana for hosting this series! Follow Juliana Colangelo through any of these channels: Instagram: www.instagram.com/julezcolang/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/jules.colangelo/ Twitter: twitter.com/JulezColang LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-colan…lo-mba-04345539/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/colangelopr/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ColangeloPR Twitter: twitter.com/ColangeloPR LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/colangel…public-relations Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

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Episode 561 Rebecca Lawrence interviews Nadine "Wine" Brown on the series Voices. Sommelier Nadine Brown was born and raised along the shores of Jamaica and Puerto Rico. She came to the states to pursue a degree in social work. After working with children for a number of years she later moved to D.C. She ended up taking a job as a hostess at a new French restaurant opening on Capitol Hill. She had no previous restaurant experience and had every intention to return to social work. However, she fell in love with the hospitality industry. She moved up from hostess to manager in a few short years. Nadine found the history of wine fascinating and took her first wine captain course to help her be a better manager. Today, Nadine is a twenty-year veteran of the Washington, D.C. restaurant industry. She spent over 14 years at Charlie Palmer Steak as Wine Director and Sommelier. She is a two-time winner of the D.C. RAMMY’s Wine Program of the year for the region. Her palate won her the title of rising star from Star Chef in the summer of 2006. Nadine is a proud board member of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan D.C. and the nonprofit the Verasion Project. Nadine holds certifications from both the Court of Master Sommelier and WSET. If you want to learn more about Nadine, you can find her on Instagram and Twitter: @Nadinewinebrown (Twitter) @nadinewinebrown (Instagram) Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

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