247: Mitja Sirk

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Mitja Sirk works with wine at La Subida, the restaurant his family runs in Italy's Friuli region. 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. Me Meet your Sirk of La Subirra in Ormond's on the show.
0:28.0	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:29.0	Hello, Levy, thank you for having me.
0:31.0	Nice to have you here.
0:32.0	Thank you. So you. Nice to have you here. Thank you.
0:33.0	So you grew up in the Farrili?
0:35.0	Yes, of course a wine region in the northeast corner of Italy and exactly the town it's called
0:42.0	Kormons, it's right one mile from from the Slovenian border.
0:45.6	What's it like to be in a border zone?
0:47.6	I'm always there so maybe I don't feel that big difference but and I'm also very young so I was born when the
0:55.8	Slovenia which is our border country became alone and so I didn't feel so strong the
1:02.2	difference between italia and Yugoslavia, which was quite hard.
1:07.1	For me it was very simple to go to Slovenia.
1:09.9	The Iron Curtain had ended.
1:11.5	Slovenia went into the EU and it was easy to get back and forth.
1:14.5	Yes.
1:15.9	At the beginning in 1992, when I was born, the Slovenia take the autonomy and then in 2006 at the end of 2006 Slovenia came to you and so there was
1:29.0	no border now we can drive or walk from Italy to Slovenia every time and without any documents.
1:36.0	How would you summarize the difference between Slovenia and Italy?
1:40.0	There are two very different cultures. In Italy we have of course the Mediterranean and the Latin culture
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