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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

406: Stefano Almondo

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 12 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Stefano Almondo works with his family at Giovanni Almondo, a producer in the Roero zone of Italy's Piemonte. 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. So, Stefano Am

0:25.0

Almondo of Giovanni Almondo in the Rowero of Pimante on the show today.

0:29.0

Hello sir, how are you?

0:31.0

Very fine, thanks. So your dad, Domenico, founded a winery in O'Oeroero in the 80s.

0:37.0

Right.

0:38.0

He started the Dad's the end.

0:40.0

I was founded in 1978 but the viti culture anyway has always been present in our area so

0:49.3

it's not 30 years ago I have have documents, history of montage made by university that proves that some

0:58.1

crew, like for example Valjana that we do now as an Ebbiolo crew was a great site in the 18th century.

1:07.0

So 300 of history for sure of viticulture then maybe even before.

1:12.0

It's near Barbarasco, but it's on the other side of the river and it's lower elevation in general.

1:18.0

Right, it's opposite Barbarasco on the other side of the river.

1:22.0

The difference is a geologic difference. So our

1:26.3

soil is more recent formation than Barol and Barberesco geology history. What you find when you arrive it's a very sandy soil. Sandy

1:37.6

in certain part with more limestone, in other parts a lighter soil anyway more sandy in general talking about

1:45.5

distances it's a few miles from Barberesco a few miles from Barolo it would be

1:49.3

20 kilometers far from Barberesco and 23, 24 from Barolo, but it's completely another kind of

1:57.4

soil and also the shape of the hill. The shape of the hill are very steep and little hills.

2:04.0

We have a little formations, not wide and very steep.

2:08.2

So part of the viticulture is made by hand.

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