This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you are listening to episode number 144.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns and

villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of

Bella Italia. Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical

landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta. If you're dreaming

of Italy and planning future adventures

there, you've come to the right place.

Ciao everyone. Katie here wondering, are you interested in Italian wine? I definitely am,

but I have to confess I'm not really an expert and I've had no formal training. For me,

it's really been an informal appreciation gained by enjoying wine bars in Italy and around the

world. And that actually has been one of the greatest pleasures of my

life. Nevertheless, I do enjoy talking to experts about wine because I always learn something

new and interesting, and let's face it, in Italy, wine is an integral part of the culture,

especially in Florence, surrounded as it is, by some of the most iconic, and I don't use that

term lightly, wine-making regions in the world. So when I had this idea for a podcast

episode on the wine bars of Florence, I knew there was only one person I wanted to talk to

about them, and that is our guest today. Robin Geasling is a sommelier photographer and someone who's truly living her

best life working on projects that combine her interests living in Florence. She was on episode 92

of Untold Italy talking about the famous wine doors or windows of the city, but her latest project

is documenting the goings on and people behind one of the oldest wine bars in Florence.

She's a true expert on wine and wine bars in the city, but what I love most about Robin

is she keeps everything low-key and relaxed and not at all intimidating, which can be the case

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