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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

225: Giovanni Poggiali

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Giovanni Poggiali is the chief executive of Felsina, in Tuscany, Italy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.1

I'm Levy Dalton.

0:06.1

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Do you? Givani Pajoli of Felsina on the show today from Tuscany. Hello, Sir,

0:30.0

Hello, fine, thank you.

0:32.0

Great to have you here.

0:33.2

It's my pleasure.

0:34.7

You're the general manager of an estate in Tuscany.

0:39.3

But how did you get there?

0:40.3

Where did your family originate? My family went to Tuscany in the

0:46.2

1966, my grandfather, Domenico, both the state in the fabulous years, the 60s, but we originated from Romania.

0:59.7

Romania is the little region, but very ancient, very important for the Italian story and also for

1:05.9

viticulture I say and in particular for the San Jose grapes and the only San Jose grapes. The only grapes in Northern Italy is in Romania.

1:18.0

The story of Romania also the agricultural story of Romania comes from the first occupation of the Romans in the

1:26.8

northern of the Apennines mountains and they went to Rimini and then took and founded other cities, small cities like Ravenna, my hometown.

1:43.0

And that's where there was amazing artwork, mosaics.

1:46.0

Yes, Ravenna is very famous for the mosaics.

1:49.0

And we have also the gravestone of Dante Ligeria Florentine, born in Florence, and died in Ravenna,

1:58.0

writing the last important part of the trilogy, the comedy, Looking at this incredible mosaics and also in

2:08.0

this mosaics you can see vigners vines and that is the best witness of deep culture we have,

2:17.8

Romania have, linked to the Romans and to the Central of Italy.

2:23.0

And this first invasion of the North of Italy

2:26.0

mixed with the people, mostly the cells.

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