Friends of the Pod Series --Ep 493: Marina Marcarino of Punset; Barbaresco's Most Forward-Looking Producer Returns to WFNP
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
I first spoke to Marina Marcarino of Punset in 2017 and I was fascinated by her story and loved her wines. We became friends and I’ve visited her over the years and keep in touch with her for a pulse on what is happening in the vineyards and wineries of Barbaresco, where Punset is located.
Marina Marcarino of Punset Wines in Barbaresco
As a recap of the first show, when Marina Marcarino was in her early 20s, she took over the family vineyard in Neive, Barbaresco (Piedmont, Italy) and named it Punset. She had a revolutionary idea for the 1980s: to turn the vineyard organic. Marina became the first organic producer in Barbaresco. Her vineyards look different, her practices were strange to most back then and when she started using biodynamic in the 1990s, her reputation as “la pazza” – the crazy, was cemented.
Fast forward to today, and everyone has followed Marina and she has become one of the thought leaders in environmental stewardship of vineyards in Barbaresco. Those who once mocked her, now use the very same practices she pioneered and she has gained the respect of them all.
Photo: The Amazing Punset wines
When I was visiting Piedmont recently, I was able to catch up with Marina and ask her for an update about the region and about Punset. She is such a forward looking person -- this is a real opportunity to hear about what will likely be happening in wine and in Piedmont in the future.
We discuss controversial topics and general ones, and her insightful answers will have you thinking more deeply about the entire region and about farming, winemaking, and a little of life philosophy thrown in. She is the president of Albeisa, a consortium of quality producers who seek to educate and properly market the wines of the Langhe, and she shares some of the things she's done and is doing in that role as well.
I hope you find her passion and intelligence as awesome as I do! Enjoy this one – you’ll learn so much!
Don't forget to listen to Ep 182, the OG with Marina that goes over her story...LINK
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and certified wine dork. |
| 0:20.7 | And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person. |
| 0:24.0 | This podcast is sponsored by our exclusive sponsor, Wine Access, and in honor of my absolute favorite holiday, Halloween. |
| 0:31.5 | We have put together a four-pack of amazingly themed wines that revolve around Halloween. |
| 0:37.8 | Go to wineaccess.com slash WFMP-Hallowing. |
| 0:42.9 | Listen in the middle of the show for more details. |
| 0:45.4 | This show is really special to me. |
| 0:47.9 | It is with my friend Marina Marcarino, |
| 0:51.3 | who was originally on the show in 2017. |
| 0:57.0 | I've seen Marina in Piedmont several times since then, and we've become better friends. And I look to Marina as the absolute |
| 1:03.3 | thought leader in so many things, in wine styles, in environment, in climate change, in thinking about new things that other people |
| 1:14.6 | aren't thinking of. Marina Margarino was originally billed as La Pazza, the crazy. If you go back and |
| 1:21.7 | listen to episode 182 so many years ago, you will hear her story, and I do encourage you to go back and listen. |
| 1:29.8 | Although she was called La Pazza for being the first one to be biodynamic and to be |
| 1:34.7 | organic and for trying new things, everyone else has now come around to her viewpoint. |
| 1:40.3 | And the things that she says today, I think in another six years, she will come on the show again, |
| 1:45.2 | and many of them will have come to bear. I talked to her about all sorts of things in this show |
| 1:50.9 | because I really wanted her take on what's going to happen in wine, what's happening now, |
| 1:55.4 | and where do we see things going? So I think as you listen to the show and listen to Marina, |
| 2:00.5 | remember, as she talks about |
| 2:02.3 | these things, they are things that are likely to happen and things that people are likely to talk |
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