I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Isabella Odero on the show today of the Podero Winery in Barolo.

Hello, how are you?

Hi, Chao Levy, I'm very well, thank you.

Nice to see you.

Yeah.

So why don't you sketch for me the history of Poderio Darrow as it came along to be as it is today?

Yeah, our winery is one of the oldest and most ancient cellar family owned

sellers in the Lange Hills. We come from Lamora Village and it's difficult to find an exact date when the business was established, but we have many old documents at the winery like old invoices, notarial deeds, parish acts that take us back to 1700s.

Wow. Yeah, so. Yeah, past due in. us back to 1700s.

Wow.

Yeah, you have past two invoices from the 1700s?

Yeah, more of that.

Yeah.

You've owed us money for 300 years.

Yeah. It is tough to get some clients to pay. Yeah, it takes many many years sometimes.

So we have accurate documentation that take us back to end of 1700 and the first ancestor we know is

Giovanni Battista Odell, who was born at the end of 1700 and he dedicated all his life to the cultivation of the vineyards and to the production of nebiolo wines.

And it was really a avant-garde vine-grower because just some

years before the unity of Italy which happened in 1861. He was concerned with the

retrieval of sulfur from Sicilian volcanoes in order to fight serious illness, which is Oidium, which is a fungenious disease that seriously attacked the vines in that period and Jo-Pardise the production.

So there is a story that we have in his diary together with the priest of Lamora and together with other vine growers of the area,

he tried to buy sulfur from Sicily and to obtain a good price and he asked them to help him to bring from Sicily to Piamante.

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