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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

162: Silvio Messana

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 11 April 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Silvio Messana is the owner and winemaker of the Montesecondo winery, located in Tuscany, Italy.

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0:00.0

I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

0:05.0

I'm Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Sylvia Misana on a show today of Monte Secondo.

0:25.0

Hello, sir, how are you?

0:30.0

Very well, thanks. Thank you.

0:31.0

Thank you for being here.

0:32.0

You're welcome. It's a pleasure.

0:33.5

So you were born in North Africa? No, I wasn't. I was born in Florence, but I was raised in

0:40.6

all Africa. I grew up there in Tunisia until I was 18 and then went to

0:47.2

college in Florence. So I was there from almost 0 to 18 because I was just born in Florence out of desire of my parents to have us, my sister and I, Italians, because my father and my grandfather were born in Tunisia in North Africa.

1:07.5

And at that time it was under the goal, who you know probably mostly most people know him president of

1:18.9

friends at that time and he had a rule that the third generations would be of the nationality of the country they

1:26.8

were born in.

1:28.4

So in this regard, who would have been my sister and I French? And father was a very nationalist I guess and so he

1:35.8

wanted us to have to be Italian so they flew my mother and him to Italy to Rome for my sister and to Florence for me.

1:45.0

What was it like during your period of time in North Africa? What was your dad like?

1:50.0

My father was a musician and the memories I have he died when I was 22. The memories I have are of a person who was very much into his world, his own world, music world.

2:08.0

He was a true artist, I think, in his own way.

2:12.0

He was a musician after the war in Rome. Unfortunately what I have had is mostly stories from the past and I had not the chance to leave him as a musician, but a lot of good stories. He did play some music for a while, while he was in

2:36.4

North Africa, but he couldn't meet there, he couldn't have the, there were not enough good musicians for him to play. He was a jazz player, saxophone player.

2:48.0

And a funny person, a nice man, not really a father in the sense like he would never

2:56.2

tell me, you know, study or wear a sweater or eat, you know, parent stuff. He was, no, he was in his own, his own world and I loved him. He was a great man.

3:11.0

And the memories I have from the wine part which is actually where it all

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