Welcome to Episode 2079, in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews social entrepreneur Deborah Brenner in this installment of Voices on the Italian Wine Podcast. Deborah Brenner founded Women of the Vine and Spirits and she continues her epic work in the industry with a new initiative to stop harassment in the wine sector. 

More about today’s guest:  

Deborah Brenner 
Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & Spirits® 
President, Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation, Ltd. 501c3 
Founder, Diverse Powered Brands™ 
 
As a social entrepreneur, Deborah Brenner measures success on the positive impact a business makes on society. She has manifested her vision with Women of the Vine & Spirits®, the all-encompassing global membership organization dedicated to boldly pushing the wine, beer and spirits industry toward a more diverse, equitable and inclusive era that supports business development and innovation, empowering all to thrive. 
 
And more recently, with an emphasis on creating greater equity for diverse suppliers who are part of historically marginalized and disadvantaged communities, Deborah launched Diverse Powered Brands™ in 2023. Diverse Powered Brands is the premier centralized B2B digital global catalog connecting diverse-owned, diverse-led and diverse-made brands to buyers, wholesalers investors, and supplier diversity managers across the entire beverage alcohol and hospitality industry 
 
Prior to entering the wine industry, Deborah spent 20 years in the male-dominated television and film technology industry. It wasn’t until a fortuitous trip to Napa and Sonoma, that Deborah discovered another male-dominated industry, one where women were under-recognized. Compelled to tell their stories, she authored a bestselling collection of profiles on women, Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste and Enjoy Wine, which Wine Spectator named a Critical Read. 
 
Through the process of writing the book and championing these extraordinary women, Deborah became inspired to enter the wine business herself, releasing wine from a first-of-its-kind collective of seven artisan women winemakers. For seven years, Deborah learned the business inside and out. Ultimately, however, the wine brand didn’t foster women the way she had hoped, which led her to shut down the brand and return to the drawing board. 
 
In March 2015, Deborah organized the Inaugural Women of the Vine & Spirits Global Symposium, bringing women and male allies together to focus on actions the alcohol beverage industry could make to change the status quo. It was a sold-out success. Membership to Women of the Vine & Spirits opened September 2015. What started off as a one-off event and a grass roots movement quickly expanded into a global organization with corporate and individual members connected across the globe. 

Connect: 
Website: https://www.womenofthevine.com, https://www.wotvsfoundation.org,  https://diversepoweredbrands.com  
Instagram: @womenofthevineandspirits @diversepoweredbrands  
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-of-the-vine/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/diverse-powered-brands/  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womenofthevine365/?ref=bookmarks ; https://www.facebook.com/diversepoweredbrands/ 		 

About today’s Host: 

Cynthia Chaplin is a VIA certified Italian Wine Ambassador, a professional sommelier with FIS and the WSA, a member of Le Donne del Vino, and a Professor of Italian wine and culture. Born in the USA, she’s lived in Europe since 1990. Italian wine, in particular rosé, is her passion. Cynthia is a wine writer, a judge at international wine and sake competitions, she consults with restaurants and enotecas developing comprehensive wine lists and food pairings, and she advises clients who want to curate an Italian wine collection.

Connect: 

Facebook: Italian Wines in English 
Instagram: kiss_my_glassx 
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-chaplin-190647179/

Ep. 2079 Deborah Brenner | Voices with Cynthia Chaplin

Welcome to Episode 2080 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors’ Corner. In this episode, Barbara Fitzgerald interviews Giancarlo Baldisserotto. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and replayed here on the Italian Wine Podcast. In this interview, today’s guest moderator covers the learning objectives:  

 

1. Moving to a new region and starting your own wine business. 

2. Viticulture in Puglia. What are the challenges? What are the bright spots? 

3. Implementing a DTC sales strategy, challenges and opportunities of selling direct to consumer. 

 

Co-Moderator – Barbara Fitzgerald   

With a career of nearly two decades in the wine industry, Barbara specializes in D2C marketing and business development. She's led roles from entry level to senior management, combining her extensive experience with data analysis, critical thinking and storytelling while driving revenue growth and brand recognition for California wineries. As a part of the 4th generation of an Italian-American family among the California wine industry pioneers, Barbara has spent her life around wine growing, production, marketing, distribution and hospitality. A Syracuse University graduate, she returned to California to gain diverse industry perspectives from a range of wineries. As an Italian Wine Ambassador, she brings her expertise to the Italian wine market, known for its authenticity and consumer demand. Barbara now runs Apri La Creative Consulting, coaching wineries in Italy and the US to strategically develop their D2C channels in line with their brand values. Together with her husband, Barbara also owns and operates a boutique wine production company, and a small import company specializing in Italian wines to the US. 

 
Connect: 
Instagram @aprilabottiglia 
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-fitzgerald-iwa/ 
Website www.aprilacreative.com 

 

More about the winery:  

L’Essenza di Puglia is a family-run organic boutique winery in Carovigno. They produce Salento IGP wines primarily from Primitivo, Negroamaro, Fiano, Chardonnay, and Garganega grapes. 

  

Their production philosophy is to create wines that are not overly intense in flavor, but well-balanced, respecting the natural characteristics of the grapes to produce wines that are round, easy to drink, and pleasing to the palate. 

  

At L’Essenza di Puglia, they are committed to sustainable practices and actively work towards symbiotic agriculture for the conservation and protection of the Mediterranean environment and its biodiversity. Their vineyards and olive groves are perfectly integrated with natural, spontaneous wild plants. 

 

Connect: 

Facebook: Essenzadipuglia 

Instagram:  Essenzadipuglia 

LinkedIn:  Essenzadipuglia 

Website: www.essenzadipuglia.it 

 

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Ep. 2080 Barbara Fitzgerald interviews Giancarlo Baldisserotto | Clubhouse Ambassadors’ Corner

Welcome to Episode 2081, where we present a session recording from the wine2wine Business Forum 2023. In today's episode, we delve into "A perfectly matched e-commerce blend for your digital success" 

 

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: 

Having a strong online presence is a key aspect of a brand’s growth today. The digital space is the most frequent, fast and accessible point of contact for consumers who, in 90% of cases, prefer omnichannel solutions. Therefore, the online retail site is currently considered a commodity in several sectors: from Fashion to Lifestyle and Food & Wine. 

 

It is necessary to build one’s digital store by creating a functional and smooth online customer experience, focusing on visual communication and guiding the user through the purchase path, elevating the brand’s digital positioning and strategy. Brands need to integrate retail and e-commerce initiatives that give them broad visibility in every target market, scaling search results, offering more opportunities for conversion, and gaining clear insight into the analytical assets of its users. We need to get a strategic direction for the customer experience and, most importantly, conducive to international brand expansion. 

 

Find more about wine2wine Business Forum: https://wine2wine.net/  

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Ep. 2081 A perfectly matched e-commerce blend for your digital success with Giorgia Santinami, Paolo Picazio | wine2wine Business Forum 2023

Ep. 2081 A perfectly matched e-commerce blend | wine2wine Business Forum 2023

Welcome to Episode 2082, where Prof. Scienza takes questions from the wine community and answers them in his own inimitable way! These shows are generally in the Italian language. Today’s question comes from Wim Sas. 

 

Today’s question:  

There is some confusion about the pedigree of Sangiovese. Some believe Sangiovese is the father of Ciliegiolo, while other research shows Ciliegiolo (known as the grape producing the wine nero dolce) is the father of Sangiovese. Can you please give us your thoughts about this apparent paradox in the pedigrees?  

  

Italian: C'è una certa confusione riguardo al pedigree del Sangiovese. Alcuni credono che il Sangiovese sia il padre del Ciliegiolo, mentre altre ricerche mostrano che il Ciliegiolo (conosciuto come l'uva che produce il vino nero dolce) è il padre del Sangiovese. Puoi per favore darci i tuoi pensieri su questo apparente paradosso nei pedigree? 

 

The leading scientists mentioned by Professor Scienza in this episode are Claudio D'Onofrio from the Università di Pisa and Manna Crespan from CREA (Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria) 

 

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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Ep. 2082 Wim Sas | Everybody Needs A Bit Of Scienza

Welcome to Episode 2083 of On The Road Special Edition. In this episode, Stevie Kim visits Ferraris Agricola vineyard to discover Barbera D'Asti with Luca Ferraris, of Ferraris Agricola 

 

Discover the history of the ancient estate where the winery is located, the development of this extraordinary family winery, and the winemaking techniques involved in producing its famous wines 

 

More about today’s winery:  

 

The history of the Ferraris Agricola winery began when great-grandfather Luigi emigrated to America and found gold during the "Golden rush" in California. Thanks to his income, great-grandmother Teresa, who had remained in Italy, had the opportunity to make his dreams come true. In 1921 she bought the house, in Castagnole Monferrato, in Via al Castello, home of the first Ferraris winery. Two years later, grandfather Martino bought the "Casot", a rural farmhouse in the middle of a 40,000 square meter plot where today one of the most representative vineyards of the company stands. However, the production of wine remained a passion and never a job. Thus, for decades, the grapes were given to the town's Social Cooperative. 

 

Connect 

Website: https://ferrarisagricola.com/en/  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ferrarisagricola  

 

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/  

 

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Ep. 2083 Luca Ferraris, Ferraris Agricola | On The Road With Stevie Kim

Welcome to Episode 2084 –Part 85 of this fascinating wine book series in which Marco Gandini narrates the new Mamma Jumbo Shrimp book, Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0. Today, Marco narrates: Vermentino Nero, Vespaiola, Vitovska, Vuillermin, Wildbacher. 

 

Each week, Marco gets in-depth and geeky as he reads from the second edition of this indispensable Italian wine textbook.  

 

Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0, offers a comprehensive guide to the world of Italian wine and winemaking with contributions from Professor Attilio Scienza (including his groundbreaking research on the topic), has won the prestigious OIV - International Organisation of Vine and Wine Award 2023 in the Wines and Territories category. 

 

Get a copy on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/ajX2gwN  

 

To learn more visit: 

Website: www.mammajumboshrimp.com  

 

More about the Narrator: 

Marco Gandini is a Communications Manager at Vinitaly International, he also seems to love being a student since he is always studying and harnessing his brain! When he is not helping out with events in the office such as wine2wine, or helping out the social media department, he can be found in the Italian Wine Podcast booth, narrating this very very long book!!! 

 

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Ep. 2084 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 85 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

Welcome to Episode 2085, where host Mckenna Cassidy interviews Tatum Zangara. In this episode, Tatum and McKenna discuss the highly respected Zachy’s business profile (auction and private client sales) for Italian Wine. They also discuss Tatum’s new Italian inspired bistro based in Point Pleasant, NJ. Tatum is an Italian Wine Scholar and Certified Sommelier. Listeners interested in the American Market will take interest in this podcast! 

 

More about today’s guest:   

Tatum has been in the wine industry for over 13 years. She is a Certified Sommelier, Certified Specialist of Wine and Spirits, Italian Wine Scholar with a focus on Northern Italy, and Italian Wine Trade Certified. She is the owner and operator of Baker’s Wine Cafe in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. 

 

Connect:  

Facebook: BakersWineCafe  

Instagram: The_jersey_somm 

Website: www.bakerswinecafe.com  

 

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 

 

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Ep. 2085 McKenna Cassidy interviews Tatum Zangara | The Next Generation

Welcome to Episode 2086 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, Jodie Hellman geeks out on Catarratto Bianco Comune and Cesanese exploring the origins, history and characteristics of these grapes, 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: 
 

Jodie is an avid traveler, and she especially loves Italy and attending the massive trade shows such as Vinitaly and visiting wineries all around the country.  Currently she is the Western Regional Manager for Michael Corso Selections in the US.  In the past she was the Luxury Manager for Johnson Bros Distribution, Manager of The Sorting Table for the West and has worked as a sommelier on the Las Vegas strip for Daniel Boulud, Tom Collichio, Wolfgang Puck and Bobby Flay, among others. 

 

Connect 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jojowinegirl/  

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodie-hellman-a07a382a/ 

 

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Ep. 2086 Catarratto Bianco Comune, Cesanese by Jodie Hellman | Italian Grape Geek

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