75: Arianna Occhipinti
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2013
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Arianna Occhipinti is the owner of the Occhipinti winery located in Sicilia, Italy.
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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, Ariana Acapinti on the show today. Hello, how are you? I'm fine. Great to have you. Thank you. |
| 0:30.0 | So you have a winery that you started in Sicily and your uncle was a famous |
| 0:36.6 | Vintner Guestowakapenti and what happened so at 16 he asked you to come help him at Vinidley? |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, when I was 16, I was in high school and my uncle asked me to go with him to win Italy to the big fair in Verona. |
| 0:58.0 | And for me it was okay because I was jumping four days of school so I was happy. |
| 1:09.1 | For me the white world in that moment was not my life so everything was new and in these days I |
| 1:19.0 | discover a new world for me, made of nice people, people that drank the wine and they were very, |
| 1:31.2 | very nice in comfort with everybody. |
| 1:35.0 | So when I come back, I start to think that maybe wine could be something of good for me. |
| 1:46.6 | And in the moment that I was deciding |
| 1:50.6 | to go to university, I decide to start when making a viticulture. |
| 1:56.7 | So I moved to Milano and there, fortunately I discovered the real wine world, so the world of the production. |
| 2:07.8 | I focus my study in discovered the I focused not only what the teachers were teaching me, but the different world of the |
| 2:17.0 | teachers were teaching me but the different world of a producer. |
| 2:25.0 | So I try to travel a little bit visiting producer |
| 2:28.8 | one during the weekend. |
| 2:30.6 | And thanks to some people that I meet in that moment, I discovered that wine is not only a product made that you can study and make as a recipe but it's something more more deep. |
| 2:49.0 | And this love was starting to grow in myself so when I when I finish graduation and some |
| 3:00.0 | months before I decide to rent one actor of Vineyards and of Afra Pat and Afna Rhodavala, my two native red grape, and I start to prune in January 2004 and |
| 3:18.8 | January in September 2004 I made the first harvest. |
| 3:23.0 | And how old were you at that time? |
| 3:25.0 | Sorry? |
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