It was a famous Italian and amateur astronomer Leonardo da Vinci who once said that the discovery

of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Some would say that adage is as true now as it was in Leonardo's day, and one albeit

incidental reason that we look forward to the Giro each year is the opportunity it affords

to enjoy indeed in vibe, one of Italy's great natural treasures.

This year, as in 2020, the cycling podcast has gotten together with divine sellers of

London to offer an inological homage to the Corsarosa.

Chief root master, our viticultural maroveni, is once again Greg Andrews of divine sellers.

I sat down with Greg last week to discuss our selections for this year and indulge our

mutual passion for most things, Italian and red, white and even fizzy and pink.

Greg, first of all, great to have you back for another year with the cycling podcast,

divine sellers and cycling podcast, presenting the Giro da Vinci, the Giro of the wines of

the Giro. You and I have put our heads together and we have come up with another six bottles

of a case for this year's Giro, but first of all, I wanted to ask you, when you saw the

Giro root for this year, what did you, from a wine point of view and when you started thinking

about having to select wines for that root? It was pretty good, wasn't it? You know,

Pooja Tuscany, Piedmont, you couldn't really hope for much better, could you?

Absolutely, but first of all, it's great to be back with the cycling podcast. When I

did look at the map, it was really exciting actually in terms of taking some different

areas to where we went last year. Also, looking up north in sort of fruely and around the

northeast of Italy, there's a lot of good things going on in terms of wine up there.

The tour does focus a little bit up there and then through Tuscany, leaving us some very

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