Welcome to this new series in which Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!

Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1467; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Henry David Polacco the director of Fattoria Zerbina.

Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!
Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days. 

About today’s guest:
Fattoria Zerbina is a family winery that decided 30 years ago to put a focus on high quality wines. Working mainly with autocthonous varieties such as Albana and Sangiovese, he has developed a line of products with strong territorial characteristics with a look at a French concept. For this reason, the wines are deep and concentrated, while at the same time maintaining excellent freshness and drinkability

More about Fattoria Zerbina:
https://www.zerbina.com/

More about the interviewer:
Joy Livingston is the Producer of Italian Wine Podcast. Narrator extraordinaire and Scienza whisperer Joy Livingston has been known to edit the occasional book from time to time. When Joy is not busy Producing the podcast she is also working hard on the Mamma Jumbo Shrimp YouTube channel where many of the interviews stream on video!

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Ep. 1467 Henry-David Pollacco | Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1477; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Joy Livingston and Simone Benedetti of Cantine Benedetti.

Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!

Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days.

More about today’s Winery:
Cantine Benedetti is a winery established in 1995 by our father Luigi. In 2002 the three brothers Giuseppe, Davide and Simone decided to lead the company and bring it to a higher level.

Cantine Benedetti is an artisan winery that is run with the upmost care and dedication.
As custodians of the land, the Benedetti brothers strive for excellence while protecting the traditions of the region and building the dream of their father and the original 15 acres.

Some of their decisions mean that the process remains very labour intensive, but they feel that this is a small price to pay for first class wines.

If you treat your land properly and you respect the plants, without chemicals and cutting corners, you will be rewarded with superior fruit.

“From vine to bottle, a family tradition”.
Our company uses only home grown grapes, giving us the ability to control the birth of our wines from the cultivation of the vines; this attentive care applied to every step and a deep love and passion for our land, gives us that marvellous product known as Valpolicella, in all its kinds.

These choices don’t often follow the market’s rules, but they are to be perceived as an artist’s signature.

Connect:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cantinebenedetti
Website: https://www.cantine-benedetti.com/ 

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Ep. 1477 Simone Benedetti | Slow Wine 2022

Ep. 1477 Simone Benedetti | Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1488; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Stevie and Costante Planeta the Area Sales Manager of Planeta Winery. 

Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!

Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days.

More about today’s Winery  - Planeta Winery
For centuries and through seventeen generations, Planeta has been active in changing and improving agriculture in Sicily. Alessio Planeta has spent his life advocating for Sicilian wine and figuring out how to make it a significant force in world wine. With his family, Alessio now has several wineries around Sicily, and they have almost single-handedly put Sicily on the map as a quality player.
Planeta continues its mission to show what Sicily can do and what it’s forgotten varietals can bring to the world of wine.

Find out more:
planeta.it/en/

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Ep. 1488 Costante Planeta | Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1498; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Joy Livingston and Pier Viberti of Marengo Mauro Winery

Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!


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More about today’s winery  -  Marengo Mauro Winery
The cellar is a small family-run business, born thanks to Francesco Marengo (Mauro’s father, the current owner and successor) who decided to plant his first vineyards in Novello around the 1950s.
Born mainly as an agricultural activity, over time it became a winery, and in 2015 (with the arrival of the third generation in the cellar) it started to sell bottled wines in the international market.
The family only cultivate his own land: they own 11 hectares of native vines of Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Nas-cëtta, located on the hills of Novello and Barolo.
Growers for generations, the Marengo family dedicate the utmost attention to the care of the vineyard, respecting all the times that nature requires.
The company produces Nas-cëtta del comune di Novello DOC, Dolcetto d’Alba DOC, Barbera d’Alba DOC, Barbera d’Alba Superiore DOC, Langhe Nebbiolo DOC, Barolo DOCG, Barolo Angela DOCG, and a red wine called “Falun”.



Connect:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marengomaurovini/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarengoMauroVini/  
Website: https://www.marengomaurovini.com/en/chisiamo/ 

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Ep. 1498 Pier Viberti of Marengo Mauro Vini | Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1508; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Cynthia Chaplin and Alberto Paltrinieri from Cantina Paltrinieri

Stevie Kim and her team travelled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!


Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days.

More about today’s winery  -  Cantina Paltrinieri
Located in the heart of Sorbara, in the center of the fertile province of Modena, the Cantina Paltrinieri is a family-run farm dedicated to the production of Lambrusco di Sorbara DOC for three generations.

Connect:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cantinapaltrinieri/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cantinapaltrinieri/ 
Website: https://cantinapaltrinieri.it/ 

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Ep. 1508 Alberto Paltrinieri | Slow Wine 2023

Welcome to Episode 1649; part of our Italian wine interview series set in Bologna! Today’s interview is between Stevie Kim and Isidoro Vajra of GD Vajra

Stevie Kim and her team traveled to the Bologna Slow Wine Fair in March 2023. There they conducted dozens of interviews with some of Italy's most inspiring producers. Join the fun every Thursday afternoon!


Tune-in each Thursday as we bring you the great interviews that unfolded over the course of 3 days.

More about today’s winery:
“We produce Barolo but not only, because we love all the wines of our land. We believe in beauty, in work done well, in attention to detail, in creativity that respects tradition. We are a family and artisan company. We are accompanied by a young team, enthusiastic and passionate as we are. We directly follow the work of our vineyards, because it is the basis of uncompromising quality, but above all because we like it so much. Our wines are born elegant, complex, delicate. They have the identity and personality that we would like to find in every glass on our table." These are the words with which the Vajra company presents itself: a true undisputed point of reference in the Langhe lands, that is, a winery that has always been linked to the traditions and territory it belongs to, capable over time of establishing itself with products which have reached absolute qualitative levels.
Vajra is one of the historical names of the Piedmontese Langhe, a company that has extended over a vineyard area covering a total of fifty hectares since 1972. Located in the municipality of Barolo, the winery produces strongly territorial wines, starting from all the most typical vineyard varieties of the area.
A family-run company, where two generations work side by side, creating a combination of dynamism and loyalty towards the most ancient local traditions, to which is added particular attention to the most modern technical and scientific innovations that progress is capable of at the moment to offer: mass selections, treatments done with the utmost respect for the territory and nature using synthetic products only where strictly necessary. During the harvest phase, and also subsequently, rigorous selections of the grapes are carried out, to achieve the maximum result in each bottle in terms of fidelity to the vine and the Langhe terroir. Simply excellent wines, those I labeled "Vajra", capable of expressing the best enological essence of the Piedmontese lands like few others.

 
Connect:
Website: https://www.gdvajra.it/ 

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Ep. 1649 Isidor Vajra Of GD Vajra | Slow Wine 2023

Ep. 1649 Isidoro Vajra Of GD Vajra | Slow Wine 2023

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