444: Enrico Pozzesi Remembers His Friend Giulio Gambelli

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🗓️ 17 February 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Enrico Pozzesi is the owner of Fattoria Rodano, the winery located within Castellina in Chianti, in Tuscany, Italy.

Enrico discusses his wines and vineyard property in this episode, as well as the varying conditions that were presented by different vintages. He also discusses his friendship with an advisor to his winery, Giulio Gambelli. Gambelli in the years since his death has become a legendary figure, known for his incredible wine tasting ability and for the wines he helped create at many properties, including Rodano, Case Basse, Montevertine, and Bibbiano. Though mostly unheralded during his own lifetime, Gambelli is now considered one of the most important figures in the history of Tuscan wine. Enrico recalls many details from Gambelli's life and work in this interview.

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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, The name Giulio Gambelli is frequently mentioned in the interview you're about to hear.
0:31.0	Gambelli, who died in 2012 at the age of 86, was a longtime advisor to John Franco
0:37.4	Sildera to Sergio Manetti at Monteverini, with whom Gambelli created La Pergala Torte as a 100% San Juvezi, and to many other producers in both
0:47.6	Montecino and Quiante Classicalo.
0:51.0	Gambelli had begun his career as a lab assistant to Tankredi Beyondi Santi during the war years and was known as a fantastic taster.
1:00.0	The many stories about Gambelli and his amazing tasting ability seem almost unbelievable because they are so incredible.
1:08.4	Several of the wines that Gambelli was associated with subsequently became very famous.
1:14.8	But Gambeli himself was largely unknown.
1:18.4	It was only towards the end of his life that writers began to devote pieces to Gambelli,
1:23.0	such as in 2007 when Carl Lamaki published a book calling Gambelli,
1:27.5	the man who knows how to listen to wine.
1:30.0	Another author who knew Gambelli, and who wrote about his work was Bill Nesta, who co-wrote the book
1:36.3	Kianty Classical, The Search for Tuscany's Noblest Wine.
1:40.7	This is what Bill Nesta had to say about Gambelli when Nesta appeared for an interview in episode
1:46.2	402 of this program.
1:48.7	Julia Gambelli, a profound influence, but it was overlooked, because he was the opposite of fashion.
1:58.4	Even his personality was different, totally different from a modern business person.
2:05.3	I don't know, have you ever seen the movie being there?
2:08.3	It's a Peter Sellers movie where the Peter Sellers plays this sort of person who on one hand he's so simple that some people think he's a profit on the other hand they think he's a simpleton
2:22.2	Julia and Gabelli was like that he's a simpleton. Julia and Gabelli was like that.
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