420: Michael Garner Remembers the Great Personalities of the Piemonte, including Giovanni Conterno, Bartolo Mascarello, and many others

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🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Michael Garner co-authored the book "Barolo: Tar and Roses - A Study of the Wines of Alba" and is writing the forthcoming "Amarone and the Fine Wines of Verona."

Michael Garner helped write one of the classic texts on the Piemonte and Barolo. In this episode Michael narrates a lively journey through his meetings with Giovanni Conterno, Bartolo Mascarello, Violante Sobrero, Luciano Sandrone, Lorenzo Accomasso, Beppe Colla, and many more Great names and personalities of the Langhe region in Italy. Plus Michael provides a bonus sneak peek on the topics of his forthcoming book, "Amarone and the Fine Wines of Verona," giving an overview of the wines of Valpolicella and Soave.

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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. author. author and importer Michael Garner on the show today. Hello sir how are you?
0:27.6	Hi yeah I'm good to you. Very nice to see you. Thank you very much. So these days you run
0:32.1	Trio Wines which is an importer of Italian wines from
0:35.6	north and central Italy into the UK. That's absolutely correct. And then in 1990 you wrote a book
0:41.3	called Barolo Tar and Roses.
0:42.8	I certainly did, yes.
0:44.6	Guiltyest charge.
0:45.6	Yeah, that's the one, that's me.
0:48.1	That, Michael Garner.
0:49.3	And then you, in the future, have a book coming out on Amaroni and the fine wines of Verona.
0:54.2	That's correct. That should be published at the end of the year all being well.
0:57.8	I'm on track with the words at the moment so I'm feeling pretty good about it.
1:01.8	You're on deadline? Yeah, yeah I'm feeling pretty good about it. You're on deadline?
1:03.0	Yeah, yeah, I'm on schedule.
1:05.0	I've sort of worked it out.
1:07.0	I've got a target of 90,000 words.
1:09.0	I've done just over 60,000,
1:11.0	so even a bear of little mathematical brain like myself knows within the next
1:16.8	five months I've got to write 6,000 words per month and I'm there.
1:21.8	So where did you grow up originally?
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