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Welcome to Episode 2025, 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 questions come from Stevie Kim!

Today’s questions: 
How would you like to celebrate your 80th birthday next year? / Come vorrebbe festeggiare il suo 80° (ottantesimo) compleanno l'anno prossimo? 

Do you have any regrets in your life, where there's anything you could have done to change the path? / Ha qualche rimpianto nella sua vita, in cui avrebbe potuto fare qualcosa per cambiare il percorso?

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:
https://www.vinitaly.com/formazione/vinitaly-international-academy/attilio-scienza/

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Welcome to Episode 2024, where we present the session recordings from the wine2wine Business Forum 2023. In today's episode, we delve into- The Top 150 Italian Wines in American Restaurants with Jeremy Hart and Stevie Kim

Italian Wine Podcast is proud to be a media partner of wine2wine Business Forum and we are pleased to present this series of market focus sessions, recorded during the Forum held 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 annual  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:
In an era where adaptability and data-driven insights are paramount, this session focuses on one of the latest industry tools for navigating the constantly evolving landscape of the on-premises beverage market in the United States. Jeremy Hart, the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Somm.ai, explains how his cutting-edge platform collects data from the beverage lists of target restaurants and bars, enabling users to manage their wholesalers, foster stronger distributor partnerships, and channel their focus towards areas with the highest potential for success. Data powered by the platform offers users an invaluable snapshot of the drinking habits of American restaurant-goers, enabling producers to understand evolving tastes, preferences and price points, all with the overall objective of improving on-premises sales.

Find more about wine2wine Business Forum: https://wine2wine.net/ 
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Welcome to Episode 2023 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner – In this episode, Wayne Young interviews Jakob Zidarich. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and replayed here on the Italian Wine Podcast! In this interview, today’s guest moderator covers the learning objective: “Let’s learn more about CARSO! This little DOC near trieste has so much to offer: Native grapes, unique terroir, iconic producers (of which Zidarich is one of them!).”

Co-Moderator - Wayne Young  
Wayne Young is a US expat living in Friuli Venezia Giulia since 2002. He is a self-employed wine marketing and communications consultant, wine educator and events coordinator, and the host of the La Taverna Friuli podcast.

Connect:
Facebook @waynegrape
Instagram @waynegrape
Website latavernafriuli.com

Guest Bio - Jakob Zidarich
Jakob Zidarich, from the Zidarich Winery. He is the son of Benjamin Zidarich who started bottling wine in the late eighties. After finishing high school in Trieste he went to work one year at the Jermann estate in Friuli. After that he went to the University of Udine. He's really passionate about our terroir of Carso/Karst and about our local varieties such as Vitovska, Malvasia and Terrano.  He really likes the world of wine, especially small production family owned wineries and a more biological philosophy. For the rest he likes traveling and he would like to visit other wine countries like South Africa first and also other areas and do some harvests there. To see also the different ideas between the wine world. In the future he would like to guide our family winery without compromising the quality that we reached.  He also has a sister that's currently studying in Japan. He's passionate about sports, he played basketball but now just follows his favorite teams of basketball and football and tv and sometimes he goes out to play with friends. He is also really interested in history especially, modern/contemporary history.

Guest Speaker: Jakob Zidarich
Facebook Jakob Zidarich
Instagram @Zidarichh 
Website Azienda Agricola Zidarich 

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Welcome to episode 2022 of the Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he is interviewing Annette Mueller of Fattoria La Vialla di Gianni, Antonio e Bandino Lo Franco

The winery is awarded the Best Winery Wine Without Walls Best Organic Sparkling Wine 2024 Trophy for Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico Docg Extra Brut Millesimato Vino Biologico Cuvée n° 2 2016, and Best Biodynamic Sweet Wine 2024 Trophy for Vin Santo Del Chianti Doc Occhio Di Pernice Riserva Vino Biologico 2015 in Wine Without Walls, a section of 5StarWines – the Book wine selection in 2024

More about today’s winery:
„Metti bòn, cava bòn!“ ( Put good in, get good out) 
Since 1978, the Lo Franco family has lived by this motto at Fattoria La Vialla, their organic-biodynamic farm in Tuscany... and this commitment has been rewarded!
For the family-run, independent and almost self-sufficient farm, the early years were difficult; it was often ignored or “snubbed” by tasting panels, but now, more than 46 years later, the Lo Franco Family has been named “Wine Family of the Year” at the Meininger
Award 2023 – Excellence in Wine & Spirit.
In addition, in 2023, Fattoria La Vialla was named “Best Organic Winery - International” for the 9th time at the Mundus Vini Biofach, “Winery of the Year” for the 5th time at Wine Without Walls - Vinitaly , and “Best Producer Organic - Italy” for the 12th time at the Berlin Wine Trophy.
That all this is no coincidence is also shown by the numerous other accolades received in recent years, thanks to the untiring commitment of La Vialla’s over 150 employees who work in the vineyards, olive groves, fields,kitchen-workshop, bakery, dairy and hospitality structure.
Fattoria La Vialla is a totally eco-sustainable, “climate positive” farm and wine estate.
In 2020 the Fattoria was promoted from “Carbon Neutral” to “Climate Positive” by Nature Office.
In 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) chose Fattoria La Vialla as one of the
#GenerationRestoration actors for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Programme aims to create a global movement to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems, in which sustainable and regenerative agriculture
plays a key role.
On November 23rd 2023 Fattoria La Vialla won the German Sustainability Award 2024 as an outstanding model of sustainability in agriculture. The award is conferred annually by
the Foundation of the same name and the German government.

Connect:
Website: www.lavialla.com 
Instagram: @fattorialavialla 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fattorialavialla/ 

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 is soon to begin a regular series on Italian Wine Podcast, ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England

Connect:
quaypress.uk/
marcmillon.co.uk
vino.co.uk
quaypress.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624
Twitter: @Marc_Millon

Welcome to Episode 2021 on Italian Wine Podcast, Masterclass US Wine Market With Juliana Colangelo Today she interviews They talk about the generational shift from boomers to millennials and how it is affecting the wine market specifically. How does the internet change consumer purchase decisions? What millennials and Gen X are looking for in buying wine? Lastly, how can the wine industry make connections with consumers across generations?

More about today’s guest:
Susan DeMatei holds a B.S. in Communications from Boston University and an A.S. in Viticulture from Napa Valley College. She is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, and a Certified Specialist in Wine with the Society of Wine Educators. She has been awarded numerous awards for strategic & creative excellence for work within her marketing agency, WineGlass Marketing, that she founded in 2012. She is a columnist for Grapevine Magazine and a frequent freelance writer and speaker at conferences. Susan also is a instructor at the WISE Academy as well as Napa Valley Community College, and a repeat lecturer at the Institute for Enology & Viticulture at Walla Walla Community College and California Polytechnic State University. She is a contributing author of “Wine Sales and Distribution” for sale on Amazon and currently collaborating on a second marketing and sales textbook. 

Connect:
Website: www.wineglassmarketing.com 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wineglassmarketing/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wineglass-marketing/ 
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/wineglassmarketing/ 
Twitter:  https://x.com/WineGlassMktg 

More about Juliana Colangelo:
Juliana Colangelo is a leading communications and marketing professional for the beverage alcohol industry. Currently, Juliana is a Senior Brand Manager at Frederick Wildman, where she is focused on building their Italian wine portfolio. Prior to that, she led the California Division as a Vice President at Colangelo & Partners, the leading wine and spirits communications agency in the U.S. for over 10 years. During her tenure at C&P, Juliana led the development of the California office, growing the agency’s domestic presence to a dedicated office of 15 people with representation of leading wine companies such as Jackson Family Wines, Far Niente, Charles Krug Winery, Foley Family Wines and more. Juliana has completed her WSET Level 3 and her eMBA in Wine Business with Sonoma State University. In 2021, Juliana was named one of PR News’ Top Women in PR in the “Rising Stars” category. In 2022 Juliana became a Vinitaly International Academy Italian Wine Ambassador.

Connect:
Instagram: www.instagram.com/julezcolang/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jules.colangelo/
Twitter: twitter.com/JulezColang  
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-colangelo-mba-04345539/ 

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Welcome to Episode 2020 of the Italian Wine Podcast. In this Italian Grape Geek series we explore personal stories of travel and tasting with Italy’s must know grape varieties. 

In this episode, Scott Thomas geeks out on Aleatico and Ansonica exploring the origins, history and characteristics of the grape, sharing personal connections with wines made from this variety. 

Chart your own course with My Italian Grape Geek Journal, your personal tasting companion to accompany the series. Support the show by donating at www.italianwinepodcast.com. 

Donate five euros or more and we’ll send you a copy of our latest book, My Italian Grape Geek Journal. Absolutely free! To get your free copy of My Italian Grape Geek Journal, click support us at www.italianwinepodcast.com or wherever you get your pods. 

More about today’s host:
Scott Thomas has an extensive twenty-year career in the wine industry, with roles as a sommelier, in distribution and sales management, and education. He is the founder of Grappolo Wine School in Denver, which offers immersive wine travel, wine events, and structured courses, including the VIA's Italian Wine Maestro certification. In addition, he’s the wine director at Restaurant Olivia, a mighty pasta-focused concept with an Italian-heavy wine list. Scott's professional credentials include Italian Wine Ambassador, Italian Wine educator, and Certified Wine Educator. Additionally, he is an official Orvieto Ambassador and Langhe Wine Ambassador. His passion for Italian wines grew during his two years in Piedmont and Tuscany, where he earned a Master's degree in Wine Culture from Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences and gained practical experience in the vineyards of Chianti Classico.
Connect:
Instagram @_scott_thomas_wino
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/scott-thomas-…e-iwa-215069177/
Website: grappolowineschool.com
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