427: Gianluca Garofoli on One Hundred Years of Verdicchio

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gianluca Garofoli works with his family at the Garofoli winery, in the Marche region of Italy.

Gianluca Garofoli discusses in-depth the wine history of the Marche, as well as the native grape varieties Verdicchio and Montepulciano. This conversation is an insider's guide to the Castelli di Jesi sub-zone of the Marche, and Gianluca provides rich detail about the winemaking there. Vineyard characteristics, vine training, weather conditions, soil types, vintages, and winemaking styles are all covered, as well as the changes in the wines of region over time.

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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, John Luca Garofley in the Marque. Hello sir, how are you?
0:27.0	Bojorno, very good.
0:29.0	Tutobene.
0:30.0	Very nice to see you.
0:31.0	Thank you.
0:32.0	So your family goes back quite a ways in this area of the Marquet.
0:35.0	Your Offrey wine started out of the unification of Italy that happened in the middle of the 19th century.
0:42.2	What was the style back then?
0:44.0	The production was for sure with local grapes.
0:46.0	You know, at the time probably we didn't know very well all the things that we know right now about the genetics of the grapes. So farmers and growers
0:55.6	like Antonin Garofoli a long time ago, for sure, use what we are using right now, but with
1:02.3	less knowledge.
1:03.4	Would the vines have been on Pergola back then or on...
1:06.4	Absolutely, absolutely, that was typical.
1:08.2	I was born in 1980 and I still remember all the Pergola around the winery.
1:13.8	So for sure, yes.
1:15.5	The wines are sold locally or?
1:17.4	Yeah, yeah, the distribution was local.
1:19.8	So we have one customer that is more than a century.
1:23.3	And this is something very special.
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