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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

379: Maria Teresa Mascarello

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 30 August 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Maria Teresa Mascarello is the proprietor of Cantina Bartolo Mascarello, in the Barolo area of Italy's Piemonte 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. Oh, Maria Theresa Mascarello of Barlow Mascarello on the show hello how are you?

0:28.0

Fine thank you.

0:30.0

So we're in your mother's house which was purchased by your grandfather in

0:34.8

1918? Yes, this is the house where born my grandfather Julia Mascarello, my father Bart Bartore Muscarell, where my grandfather,

0:46.0

Julian Mascarell, start to make wine in 1919.

0:52.0

But my family arrived from Torilione, his village close to Lamora,

1:01.6

were born my great-grandfather, Bartolomeo Mascarello, that he works in a small cooperative

1:10.2

sailor in Barolo.

1:11.9

My great-grandfather, Bartolomeo-Mescarello, both. of

1:13.3

my great-grandfather Bartolomeo Mascarello, born in the Torillon, La Mora, but he is married

1:19.7

who is my great-grandmother, Theresa Bianco, the owner of this house that they married and he comes in Barolo

1:30.8

and he works in the cooperative cellar, but the cooperative cellar was closed to start of 19 for the economic crisis that my grandfather,

1:44.0

Julia Maskerelle, decided to start here in the family house.

1:50.2

And certainly this decision in this time was not easy because it is more important in the region, the big winery and not the small artisanal producer they want to make a quality and not a quantity.

2:10.0

So in the records do you see where the wines were sold at that time, where they sold locally?

2:15.0

We start with, I think, two actors, and then also after with my father, we buy another piece like another piece in Rue, in another parcel in Canube and the total are five actors and from to start to now are always the same five actors,

2:41.6

the same parcel, the same ones, only the typical variety from us that certainly

2:49.5

Barolo is the more important production from us but with Barolo there are typical

2:55.0

variety like Dulceto, Barbeira and Fraser and all the total production is between 30,000, 35,000 bottles per year, 15,000 to 20,000 of Barolo, 5,000 of Barolo, 5,000 of Barbera, the same 5, 6,000 of Dulcheto, 2,000 of Freza, and between 2 or 3,000 of Nebbiolo,

3:20.4

Lang Nebbiolo. See total production 30, 35,000 and always the same philosophy that for me, for my family is always very important to expect our tradition, our history, the history of the region,

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