65: Piero Incisa della Rocchetta
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2013
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Piero Incisa della Rocchetta is the owner of Bodega Chacra in Patagonia, as well as a member of the family that owns Tenuta San Guido, the producer of Sassicaia.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Piero In Chiza della Roquetta here in the studio today. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello sir, how are you? |
| 0:29.9 | Very well. |
| 0:30.9 | Good morning. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:31.9 | Great to see you. |
| 0:33.3 | So your grandfather started what is arguably |
| 0:36.4 | one of the most famous ones in the world |
| 0:38.8 | at Tenuta San Guido in Bulgery in Tuscany. |
| 0:41.6 | It started Sasakaya. |
| 0:43.0 | What was your grandfather like? |
| 0:45.0 | I know you grew up in that area in Bulgary. |
| 0:48.0 | What was that childhood like? |
| 0:50.0 | A privileged one in the sense that he was a very intelligent, inspired man with a vision and very much dedicated to his passions, wine being one of them but not the only one. In fact, |
| 1:07.0 | agriculture and farming and their breads were very much part of his interest and his life. |
| 1:16.4 | So it was a previous relationship in a sense that a grandfather doesn't have the same responsibility to his nephews as a dad would. |
| 1:28.0 | So it was a childhood field also with laughter, pranks, he was a prankster, but also a lot of mental |
| 1:37.0 | stimulation. |
| 1:38.0 | You know, I remember when often we asked what something meant, whether it was an object or a word or, and he would |
| 1:47.7 | make us stand up and grab the encyclopedia, this was pre- Internet area, and go through until we found that word and read out loud to the |
| 1:56.9 | other nephews that were usually at the table and so it is an individual that made us think and it was very much ahead of his time for multiple things you know he he wrote |
| 2:19.6 | books about agriculture as well and he was very much within the parameters of biodynamic philosophy without necessarily articulating that way. |
| 2:24.1 | But the respect from the environment and the biodiversity of nature, |
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