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Welcome to episode 803, another on the Road Edition With Stevie Kim, Join her as she chats with Gianfranco Fino at his winery in Puglia. Learn more about Gianfranco Fino: The company was founded in 2004 with the purchase of a small vineyard in the countryside of Manduria of 1.30 ha. Today the company owns about 14.5 ha of company surface. Right from the start, the company mission was to produce wines from 50 to 90 year old vines, grown in Apulian sapling, with great personality and a strong territorial identity. The Es, primitivo di Manduria Doc, is immediately noticed by food and wine journalists and passionate bloggers… it divides the criticism, the Es, you love or hate it. From the 2004 vintage onwards, Gianfranco Fino obtained the most important national awards, bringing the title of Gambero Rosso Winemaker of the Year in 2010 to Puglia, an award that has never arrived before in Central - Southern Italy, (other winners Josko Gravner, Elio Altare, Romano Dal Forno, Marinella Camerani). The food and wine guides agree, buy an essay , give Gianfranco Fino Viticoltore the title of best company in Puglia, with great prestige for the region and for the territory of Manduria in particular. Es 2008 was also selected for the G8 of the Heads of State held in L'Aquila and was the wine chosen in combination with cheeses, for the private banquet of Queen Margaret II of Denmark for her 70th birthday. Gianfranco Fino is also one of the founding members of the Alberello Academy. The association takes care of the protection of this form of vine growing, so representative of our territory since the times of ancient Greece. The company, thanks to the visibility achieved at an international level, is a destination for tourists and enthusiasts who come from all over the world, last year it was also the subject of study by three Australian technicians, who studied aridoculture techniques. To learn more about Gianfranco Fino and his winery visit: http://www.gianfrancofino.it/ More about the host Stevie Kim: Stevie 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! To find out more about Stevie Kim visit: Facebook: @steviekim222 Instagram: @steviekim222 Website: vinitalyinternational.com/wordpress/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodcast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!
Welcome to another on the Road Edition with Stevie Kim. Today Stevie is in Gorizia, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, interviewing Mateja Gravner of the Gravner Winery. Before telling you more about our great episode we want to give a shout out to our new Sponsor Vivino! the world's largest online wine marketplace - The Vivino app makes it easy to choose wine. Enjoy expert team support, door to door delivery and honest wine reviews to help you choose the perfect wine for every occassion. Vivino - Download the app on Apple or Android and discover an easier way to choose wine! Find out more about by visiting: https://www.vivino.com/IT/en/ or download the app: https://www.vivino.com/app About today's winery: Gravner winery is located in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The vineyards of the domaine curl over the hills passing seamlessly across the border of Italy into the slopes of Slovenia. Meticulously maintained, the rows of grapevines settle into terraces that are dotted throughout with trees and bodies of water designed to attract wildlife and assure biodiversity. Gravner is steadily replanting to assure the primacy of the autochthonous grape varieties of Ribolla and Pignolo. After determining that stainless steel was not a proper marriage for his wines in the 1990s, Josko Gravner decided to follow the ancient wine-producing techniques used in the Caucasus and has began fermenting his wines in huge amphorae buried in the ground in his cellars in 2001, with a full conversion for all wines as of 2004. The whites, which make up about 85% of the estate's production, spend about 10 months total in amphorae, with the reds a shorter 1 to 2 months. He insists on aging his wines in large barrels for many years so release dates for most wines are from 7 to 10 years and more from the date of harvest. If you want to learn more about today's winery, you can by visiting: https://www.gravner.it/en/home.html More about the host Stevie Kim: Stevie 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! To find out more about Stevie Kim visit: Facebook: @steviekim222 Instagram: @steviekim222 Website: https://vinitalyinternational.com/wordpress/ 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/ We also want to give a shout out to our sponsor Ferrowine. The largest alcoholic beverage shop in Italy since 1920! They have generously provided us with our brand new Italian Wine Podcast T-shirts, and we love them! Check out Ferrowine's site, they have great wines, food pairings and so much more! https://www.ferrowine.it/ Until next time, Cin Cin!
Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di vini naturali? Lo abbiamo chiesto, tra gli altri, ad Alice Feiring, la giornalista americana a cui si deve la definizione di questi vini ricavati da uve coltivate da agricoltura biologica o biodinamica, pressate il più delicatamente possibile, con una quantità minima di zolfo e nessun processo aggiuntivo. A raccontarcene la storia, invece, è la figlia di Josko Gravner, che è stato il pioniere in Italia di un approccio alla produzione profondamente diverso da quello seguito fino allo scandalo del metanolo. Quell'approccio, oggi, è condiviso da decine di vignaioli che agli inizi degli Anni Duemila si sono anche costituiti in un'associazione dal nome eloquente, Vini Veri, e hanno contribuito alla diffusione di una nuova tendenza, proprio mentre tra i più giovani stava maturando una grande sensibilità per l'ambiente e l'ecologia.Oltre che nelle modalità di produzione, questi vini sono diversi anche nel gusto: hanno note spiazzanti, imprecise, qualche volta proprio puzzolenti, che però non sono necessariamente dei difetti.Produzione e adattamento della serie di Carlo Annese.Editing audio di Giulia Pacchiarini.
Quello di Mario Soldati sul Friuli Venezia Giulia è semplicemente uno dei racconti di viaggio più incantevoli dell'intera raccolta di Vino al Vino.Dai Colli Orientali al Carso Triestino, passando per il Collio Goriziano e Sloveno, ogni sosta e deviazione si muove a ridosso di quei confini, più o meno visibili, che rendono unici i vini di questa «terra ardente e impetuosa, dove non si rinuncia a niente». Colori, suoni, sapori: la varietà di condizioni ambientali, viticole, espressive, ma soprattutto la densità di incontri e suggestioni che animano il capitolo, non sono che la naturale conseguenza.Una vera e propria “storia di storie”, di quelle che vien voglia di ascoltare ancora e ancora, magari davanti al fuoco in una fredda sera d'inverno con qualche buona bottiglia a portata di mano. Anche meglio se dalla viva voce di uno fra i più reputati giornalisti ed assaggiatori mondiali, che ha avuto modo di conoscere e seguire da vicino molti dei protagonisti dell'enogastronomia regionale.Ci aiuta infatti a ricostruire le coordinate territoriali, stilistiche ed umane del vino friulano-giuliano Daniele Cernilli, co-fondatore del Gambero Rosso e per oltre 25 anni curatore della Guida Vini d'Italia, oggi al timone del progetto editoriale Doctor Wine. Pionieri e padri della patria, l'evoluzione dei “superwhite” e la riscoperta dell'anima rossista, le diverse vite di Josko Gravner: la fenomenale memoria storica del “Direttore” più che mai utile per leggere le prospettive contemporanee del comprensorio.A guidarci alla scoperta della “cucina di confine”, con tutte le sue contaminazioni gastronomiche e culturali, è invece Mitja Sirk, giovane rampollo della famiglia che a Cormons gestisce La Subida, nome di riferimento in zona tanto per l'accoglienza (dal Ristorante Il Cacciatore al Country Resort), quanto per i prodotti dell'azienda agricola (a partire dallo splendido aceto di vino).Una ricognizione completata grazie al contributo di Paolo Baldelli, indagatore del gusto e massimo esperto sul tema “maiali & prosciutti”: da non perdere la sua mappa tecnico-stilistica che connette le diverse tradizioni, al di qua e al di là della frontiera.E poi l'incredibile colpo dell'Ispettore Palma, che rinuncia alla consueta indagine sulla cucina regionale per fare luce su uno dei grandi misteri italiani: lo scippo del Tocai.Una puntata straordinariamente ricca di spunti, bottiglie, indirizzi: dunque allacciate le cinture e buon viaggio!TIPICAMENTE PRESENTAVino al vino 50 anni dopoUn podcast di Paolo De Cristofaro e Antonio Boco Seconda serie, quarta puntataNelle province di Pordenone, Udine, Gorizia, TriesteFriuli Venezia GiuliaCon l'amichevole partecipazione di Daniele Cernilli, Mitja Sirk, Paolo Baldelli e l'Ispettore PalmaLetture e grafica di Tiziana Battistawww.tipicamente.itCREDITILETTUREVino al Vino | Alla ricerca dei vini genuini, Mario Soldati - Bompiani (2017)Secondo viaggio (Autunno 1970). 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In this episode Monty Waldin interviews Mateja Gravner who works in the family winery “Gravner” in Oslavia in Friuli Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Mateja’s father, Josko Gravner is an iconic producer who created the paradigm for so-called “orange wines”—his famous Ribolla wine being made from Ribolla Gialla native grapes. Mateja tells Monty about his father Josko’s innovation in wine-making that includes skin contact and fermentation in amphoras coming from Georgia. Tune in to discover the history of the Slovenian-speaking Gravner family that intersects also with major events in the history of Italy and its contested north-east borders.
Where did vitis vinifera originate? Where do we think winemaking started? We think it's from the area that is now the Republic of Georgia. Once part of the USSR, this small, beautiful nation is reemerging as a wine power so it's time for an overview! Here are the show notes: Top level stuff... Georgia is where Eastern Europe meets Asia. Between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea As big as Scotland or Ireland 111,000 acres of vines ranging from the coast of the Black Sea to Kakheti, on the other side of the Caucasus mountains Outside Tbilisi, they only speak Georgian so when you go, you've gotta hire a guide Location: Russia to the north and Turkey and Armenia to the south Primary wine region of Kakheti—according to Georgians, the birthplace of wine itself The main wine regions, from Kakheti in the east and Imereti, Racha and Samegrelo in the west, are within a few hours’ drive from Tbilisi, the capital Climate: a diverse climatic landscape that varies from temperate to subtropical An Historical Relic: Qveri (Kwhere-vree) Traditional Georgian fermentation: a clay vessel used for centuries to produce wine in Georgia. Qvervi: 1,000-liter beeswax-coated terra-cotta jar buried in the earth A qvevri is a thick-walled vessel buried deep in the ground in a marani, or Georgian wine cellar. naturally maintains wine at optimal temperature during fermentation and allows it to age for many years without spoilage. Once fermentation is complete, the wine can be racked into another qvevri, leaving the heavy sediment behind. Qvevri white wine is sharp, strong, amber. or in the case of reds, so dark it’s known as shavi gvino: black wine Grapes: 500+ indigenous grape varietals found in Georgia, Red: Saperavi, Tavkveri and Chkhaveri plus Tavkveri, Shavkapito, Chkhaveri and Ojaleshi. White: Rkatsiteli (r-kat-see-telly), Chinuri and Mtsvane (mits-vane) méthode Champenoise in Georgia since the late 1800s, with native grape Orange wine: Friuli winemaker Josko Gravner makes his sought-after “orange” wines using ancient Georgian techniques/qvervri History: Grapes and traces of wine residue have been found in archaelogical digs from 8,000 years ago. Vitis vinifera originated from the Caucasus mountains in GA Ottoman rule in west, Christianity in the east made east side of the country the wine powerhouse Georgia came under Soviet control a few decades later. Small vineyards merged into huge co-ops =CRAP Georgia declared independence in 1991 Russia's 2006 embargo on Georgian wine imports, lifted only in June 2013. Forced diversification into other, stronger markets The wines of Georgia have a little ways to go, but they are a fascinating slice of vinous history and worth seeking out or trying if they are ever right in front of you!
Ospiti: Daniela Mastroberardino; Silvana Ballotta; Paolo Solini; Giampiero Bea; Josko Gravner
Josko Gravner produces wine from Friuli in northern Italy and from Slovenia. He is joined by his daughter Mateja Gravner, who acts as translator for this interview. Also in this episode, Erin Scala considers the reemergence of clay amphora in the wine world.