Ep. 2532 The Wines of Beaujolais with Natasha Hughes MW | Book Club with Richard Hough

Welcome to episode 2128 of the Italian Wine Podcast, and episode 161 of Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Marc’s guest today is Cristina Genna of Cantine Colomba Bianca, a cooperative of wine growers from the province of Trapani in southeastern Sicily founded in 1970.  The winery was awarded Best Organic Red Wine 2024 at www.5starwines.it. More about today’s guest:   Cristina is the marketing manager of Colomba Bianca. Her idea is to use the wines of Colomba Bianca to spread Sicilian beauty around the world. She lived abroad for a few years, between London and Warsaw, but during the time she was far from home she felt a strong connection with her island and decided to organize events to present Sicilian wines to people from different parts of the world. That's how she got in touch with Colomba Bianca. When COVID-19 arrived, she decided to leave Poland and return home, which is when she started working for the company. Colomba BIanca is more than a normal company. It's a cooperative involving 3000 members spread across 7000 hectares of land and is among the biggest organic wineries in Europe.  Connect: Website: www.colombabianca.com  Instagram: www.instagram.com/cantinecolombabianca  Facebook: www.facebook.com/cantinecolombabianca  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 authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers’ Companion Italy, The Food Lovers’ Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK’s leading cultural travel specialist. He has also been the host of the ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’ series on the Italian Wine Podcast since 2021. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England. Connect: www.quaypress.uk  www.marcmillon.co.uk  www.vino.co.uk  www.quaypress.com  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/Marc_Millon  _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/ Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Thanks for listening!  This show is all about food and wine pairings, and traveling through Italy with Marc. Join him on this food, wine and cultural journey!

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Welcome to Episode 2127 of the Italian Wine Podcast in which Jessica Dupuy interviews Francis Percival live from TEXSOM 2024! Francis Percival is a food writer and columnist for The World of Fine Wine.   Join us at TEXSOM 2024 as Texas-based wine journalist Jessica Dupuy interviews top writers, journalists, sommeliers, and wine professionals at this influential event. In this special series, Jessica will delve into the experiences and insights of key attendees, exploring career paths, challenges, and the latest trends in the wine industry.   More about today’s guest:   Francis Percival is food editor for The World of Fine Wine. His work won Louis Roederer Best International Wine Columnist in 2013 and Pio Cesare Food & Wine Writer of the Year in 2015. In addition to his writing, Francis is a judge in the magazine’s World’s Best Wine List Awards; he also teaches on cheese at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. Together with Bronwen Percival, he is the author of Reinventing the Wheel: Milk, Microbes, and the Fight for Real Cheese (Bloomsbury/University of California Press; 2017). Reinventing the Wheel won a 2018 Gourmand Award and was Wine & Spirits magazine’s Book of the Year 2017.   Connect: Website: www.worldoffinewine.com, www.realcheese.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/FAPercival More about today’s host:   Jessica Dupuy covers wine, spirits, and travel from Austin, Texas. She holds a Diploma with the Wine and Spirit Educational Trust, is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, and a Certified Specialist of Wine and Spirits through the Society of Wine Educators. Dupuy’s work has appeared in Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, Imbibe, Texas Monthly, Forbes, SevenFifty Daily, GuildSomm, VinePair, and Southern Living. She recently published, The Wines of Southwest USA in addition to six regional cookbooks. She also co-hosts podcast, Another Bottle Down.   Connect:   Website: www.jessicadupuy.com  Instagram: www.instagram.com/jessicandupuy  Twitter: www.twitter.com/jessicandupuy   _______________________________   Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels:   Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/ Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/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 Next Generation and episode 2126 of the Italian Wine Podcast. Today McKenna Cassidy interviews Margherita Mascagni. In this episode, McKenna and Margherita take us on a journey through the rich history, the flavors and aromas of Cantina Argiano. They explore the timeless beauty of Montalcino and Siena, delving into the art, cuisine, and charm of these stunning regions. All of this, seen through the fresh and curious eyes of a new generation that embraces tradition with a modern twist! More about today’s guests: Margherita Mascagni is a dynamic force within the world of wine, bringing her passion, expertise, and multilingual talents to the forefront of global wine exportation. As the Export Manager at Argiano, Margherita has spent the last four years dedicated to elevating the brand’s presence on the international stage. In 2023, Margherita’s exceptional performance and innate leadership abilities led to her promotion to the position of Global Export Manager for Argiano. With a keen understanding of international markets, she has played a pivotal role in expanding Argiano’s reach across the globe. She is fluent in five languages including English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Connect:  Website: https://brandhub.mazerow.com/d/9s5Dt6G34x4b/argiano#/argiano/trade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/masmarghe/ More about the host: McKenna found her love of wine while serving in a Napa Valley tasting room. She later graduated from the University of Notre Dame and pursued wine on the East Coast with E. & J. Gallo Winery. She has worked in wine distribution for restaurants and luxury retail stores for the past three years. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, McKenna is a Certified Specialist of Wine (2021), Certified Sommelier (2022), and Italian Wine Ambassador (2023). She loves country swing dancing, hosting brunch parties, and sipping Italian Wine. Connect: Facebook @mckennacassidy Instagram @mckennacassidy LinkedIn McKenna Cassidy Website Youtube: McKenna Cassidy _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/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 Episode 2125 of On The Road Edition. Join us today for another exciting installment featuring an Instalive sub-series titled "Livin’ The Dolce Vita," where Stevie and Jeff Porter share their adventures as globe-trotting wine professionals in Italy. To mark the 4th July celebrations the dynamic duo tasted a selection of 10 exciting Italian rosé wines from across Italy. Broadcasting live from Lazise, on the shores of Lake Garda, the renowned wine communicators offered advice on the category as a whole as well as some pairing recommendations for the upcoming summer holidays. More about today’s co-host Jeff Porter:  Jeff is an American beverage professional with over 22 years experience in retail and restaurants. He specializes in wine and beverage education, restaurant operations and management. He is part of the Wine Enthusiast team covering Italian wines. In addition to his consulting business Jeff hosts the Italian travel and wine series, SIP TRIP, now streaming on SOMMTV. He has recently relocated to Torino in northern Italy where he will spend the next six months with his family. Connect Instagram:: www.instagram.com/jeffporterwine/ Youtube: www.youtube.com/@siptripitalywithjeffporter4938 Website: www.jeffreyeporter.com/ More about the host Stevie Kim: Stevie Kim hosts Clubhouse sessions each week (visit Italian Wine Club & Wine Business on Clubhouse), these recorded sessions are then released on the podcast to immortalize them! She often also joins Professor Scienza in his shows to lend a hand keeping our Professor in check! You can also find her taking a hit for the team when she goes “On the Road”, all over the Italian countryside, visiting wineries and interviewing producers, enjoying their best food and wine – all in the name of bringing us great Pods! Connect: Social Links: https://zaap.bio/steviekim  Website: https://www.vinitaly.com/eventi/operawine/stevie-kim/  _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Remember to follow us!! - Travel Italy, food and wine, winery visits and so much more!

12 Loka 202421min

Welcome to Episode 2124 of the Italian Wine Podcast and Everybody Needs a Bit of Scienza, where Professo Scienza takes questions from the international wine community and answers them in his own inimitable way! These shows are generally in the Italian language. Today’s question about soil analysis and grape choice comes from Mihai Popescu. Today’s question:  If you were to choose a new vineyard site, what soil analysis would you do and how would you choose the right grapes? In particular if you want to choose from local grapes of the region.                                                                                                                                                                          Se doveste scegliere la zona per un nuovo vigneto, quale analisi del terreno svolgerebbe e come sceglierebbe i vitigni più appropriati? In particolare rimanendo in ambito regionale con uve locali.  More about Professor Scienza: Professor Atillio Scienza is the one who checks all the facts and regulates when we mistakenly type “Verdicchio” instead of “Vermentino.” He 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: https://www.vinitaly.com/formazione/vinitaly-international-academy/attilio-scienza/  _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Share your love for our lovely Professor if you are a true Italian Wine Geek :)

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Welcome to Episode 2123, where we present a session recording from the wine2wine Business Forum 2023. Today’s episode is entitled “Chefs and Wine: A complicated relationship” and features Gurvinder Bhatia and Gino Colangelo. Italian Wine Podcast is proud to be a media partner of wine2wine Business Forum and is pleased to present this series of market-focus sessions, recorded in Verona in November 2023. 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 wine professionals from around the world, providing an opportunity to network, develop and expand their wine business worldwide. About the session: This session explores the importance of a chef’s relationship with wine, through the eyes of professionals in the restaurant sector as well as consumers. Is it necessary for a great chef to also be well educated in wine? Should chefs and sommeliers work together to create menus, or is the food the chef’s primary focus and the wine should be left to the somms and the consumers? Based upon the results of a survey conducted earlier this year, we reveal the opinions of a wide variety of wine professionals, discussing everything from how do diners choose a restaurant and is the wine list important to that choice, all the way to how extensive and diverse restaurant wine lists should be. About the hosts: Gino Colangelo is the founder and president of Colangelo & Partners, the leading wine-focused PR & communications agency in the US with domestic clients as well as clients from around the globe. Gino’s particular interest and focus is Italian wine. He and his team work with both private companies (Arnaldo Caprai, Frescobaldi, Ornellaia, Pasqua and many others) and consortia and other trade groups (Chianti Classico, Langhe Prosecco DOC, Sicilia DOC, Slow Wine and many more). His agency has created award-winning campaigns and helps companies, big and small, navigate the complex US market. Gurvinder Bhatia is the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Quench Magazine - North America’s longest-running and Canada’s most widely distributed wine and food publication. Although he has written for Quench for over two decades and been on the editorial team for the past 15 years, Gurvinder purchased the magazine in 2021 and is committed to the magazine’s evolution to be a much truer representation of our society. Gurvinder is also the wine columnist for Global Television Edmonton, an international wine judge and the president of Vinomania Consulting.  Find more about wine2wine Business Forum: https://wine2wine.net/  _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/  Until next time, Cin Cin! Thanks for tuning in! Listen to more stories from the Italian Wine Community here on Italian Wine Podcast!

10 Loka 202434min

Welcome to Episode 2122 of the Italian Wine Podcast with Stevie Kim’s Ambassadors’ Corner on Clubhouse. In this episode Anna Obuhovskaya interviews Marilena Leta, of Tenuta Gorghi Tondi. Today’s learning objective: To learn more about the area where these wines are made, and have a better picture of Trapani and Marsala features - wine and food from this beautiful area. Co-Moderator - Anna Obuhovskaya Anna has 15 years of experience  in wine retail, marketing & sales. Worked in a number of bigger wine importing companies and independent projects, founded the italian wine tasting club in Saint Petersburg in Russia. In 2023 she became an Italian wine Ambassador. Driven by passion for European wines she moved from Saint Petersburg to the charming Slovenia. Currently holding the position of a portfolio development and Sales specialist at “Dobro vino”, a wine importing company in Ljubljana. Connect:  Instagram wine_it_anna LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-obuhovskaya-0a4789261/ Website www.dobrovino.si Guest Bio - Marilena Leta  A “translator on loan” to the world of wine. I don’t make it, but I love sharing its story, explaining it, and spreading the word—and yes, sometimes drinking it too! Sommelier, Wine Coach, and a proud member of Italian Women in Wine. Brand Ambassador for Tenuta Gorghi Tondi Connect: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marilena.leta  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marilena.leta  LinkedIn Marilena (Maria Elena) Leta | LinkedIn _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Follow Italian Wine Podcast for more great content - winery interviews from the Clubhouse sessions! Psssst…FYI, this show is our most popular show, find out why by tuning-in!

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Welcome to Book Club and Episode 2121 of the Italian Wine Podcast with Richard Hough. Today Richard is in conversation with wine writer, educator and sommelier Kelli White, author of “Wine Confident: There’s no wrong way to enjoy wine”. Amongst other things, the conversion covers Kelli’s career in wine, her move to Napa Valley and the challenges involved in publishing her magnum opus, “Napa Valley, Then & Now”. On the bookshelf: The books discussed in today’s show include: Sloe Gin by Seamus Heaney (see also Supersonic by Oasis) Wine Democracy by Richard Hough (ed.) What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky Dear Life by Alice Munro  Drinking with Valkyries by Andrew Jefford Any Human Heart by William Boyd   More about today’s guest: Kelli A. White is the Director of Education for the Wine Center at Meadowood in Napa Valley. She is also a celebrated sommelier and author, having penned the award-winning Napa Valley, Then & Now and contributed to a variety of other books including the World Atlas of Wine, the Oxford Companion to Wine, and the Academie du Vin Library works On California, On Champagne and On Burgundy. Her articles have appeared in many top wine publications and earned her two coveted Roederer Awards. In addition to making select television and film appearances, Kelli has lectured on wine all over the world.    Connect: Website: www.napavalleythenandnow.com  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelli-white-a6445766/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelliwhitewine/?hl=en   More about the host Richard Hough: Richard Hough is the editor, translator and project curator behind Wine Democracy and Vine and Prejudice. He has also published several books about life in Verona, chronicling the city’s history, culture and daily life, not forgetting, of course, its wine! With a long-standing passion for whisky and beer, he’s a relative newcomer to the world of wine and is now desperately trying to make up for lost time! He is the host of Book Club on the Italian Wine Podcast.   Connect: Twitter: www.twitter.com/rick_hough Instagram: www.instagram.com/ricksnotesfromverona  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhough/ Coming soon: Next month’s guest is Gus Zhu MW and we’ll be discussing his new book Behind the Glass: The Chemical and Sensorial Terroir of Wine Tasting. _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/

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