Welcome to the Next Generation and Episode 2261 of the Italian Wine Podcast. Today, McKenna Cassidy interviews Alessio Inama of the Inama winery in Soave.

More about today’s guest:

Alessio Inama is defined by his brothers as the "creative director" of the homonymous company. The term refers to the fact that his direction of sales, communication, marketing and packaging combines the artistic aspect with the strategic part. Alessio, despite being part of the third generation of wine producers of the Inama family, due to a strong pollen allergy, gave up on sector studies to follow a rather unusual path. After a degree in Physics in Turin and a master's degree in Decision Sciences at the City University of London, he dealt with strategic consultancy for start-ups covering the role of "growth hacker". From 2017 he began to get closer to the family legacy leading some projects, and in 2018 he moved to New York to work for one year at the prestigious wine communication agency "Colangelo & partners". In 2019 he embraced his brothers again to give life to the new phase of the Inama family, in search for the maximum expression of the volcanic territory of Soave Classico and the limestone of the Berici Hills. Today Alessio manages to involve with his energy both on social networks and in tastings, coordinates sales in 68 countries, and develops the estate image with care and passion.

Connect: 

Website: https://www.inama.wine/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inama_wine/

More about the host:

McKenna found her love of wine while serving in a Napa Valley tasting room. She later graduated from the University of Notre Dame and pursued wine on the East Coast with E. & J. Gallo Winery. She has worked in wine distribution for restaurants and luxury retail stores for the past three years.

Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, McKenna is a Certified Specialist of Wine (2021), Certified Sommelier (2022), and Italian Wine Ambassador (2023).

She loves country swing dancing, hosting brunch parties, and sipping Italian Wine.

Connect:

Facebook: @mckennacassidy

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mckennacassidy/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mckenna-cassidy-cs-csw-66baa412b/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@mckennacassidy

Welcome to Episode 2260 in which Jessica Dupuy interviews the Master Sommellier and wine director at Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Steven McDonald. 

Italian Wine Podcast is a proud media partner of Barolo & Barbaresco World Opening and is pleased to present this series of interviews recorded for this year’s event.

The fourth edition of the Barolo & Barbaresco World Opening (BBWO) takes place in Austin, Texas on 25 March 2025. This year, the spotlight shines on three southwestern states, with educational events and dedicated tastings taking place in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio in Texas as well as Phoenix, Arizona; and Denver, Colorado throughout February 2025.

Join us as Texas-based wine journalist Jessica Dupuy interviews top writers, journalists, sommeliers, and wine professionals at this renowned event. In this special series, Jessica will delve into the experiences and insights of key attendees, exploring career paths, challenges, and the latest trends in the wine industry.

More about today’s guest:

Steven McDonald is a Master Sommellier and the executive wine director for the Pappas Bros Steakhouses in Houston and Dallas.

A link to Steven's video on Nebbiolo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7P0REmurw 

Connect:

Website: https://pappasbros.com/home/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpaulmcdonald/ 

More about today’s host:

Jessica Dupuy covers wine, spirits, and travel from Austin, Texas. She holds a Diploma with the Wine & Spirit Educatiol Trust, is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, and a Certified Specialist of Wine and Spirits through the Society of Wine Educators. Dupuy’s work has appeared in Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, Imbibe, Texas Monthly, Forbes, SevenFifty Daily, GuildSomm, VinePair, and Southern Living. She recently published, The Wines of Southwest USA in addition to six regional cookbooks. She also co-hosts podcast, Another Bottle Down.

Connect:

Website: https://www.jessicadupuy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicandupuy/

Twitter: https://x.com/jessicandupuy

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Welcome to Episode 2259 of the Italian Wine Podcast coming live from the Grandi Langhe 2025 in Piedmont. Today’s guest is the sommelier, consultant, educator and media host, Jeff Porter.

As the official media partner, Italian Wine Podcast brings you firsthand insights from Grandi Langhe 2025—Piedmont’s premier wine event. Join top producers, buyers, and experts as they explore emerging styles, vineyard innovations, and market trends shaping the region's future.

From Barolo and Barbaresco to hidden gems, this series offers in-depth interviews and behind-the-scenes access, revealing Piedmont’s impact on the global wine stage.

More about today’s guest: 

Jeffrey E. Porter is an NYC-based beverage professional with over 22 years of experience in retail and restaurants. He specializes in wine and beverage education, restaurant operations, and management. 

Connect:

Website: http://www.jeffreyeporter.com/

Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffporterwine/

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Welcome to Episode 2258 of the Italian Wine Podcast and Everybody Needs a Bit of Scienza, where Professor Scienza takes questions from the international wine community and answers them in his own inimitable way! These shows are generally in the Italian language. 

Today’s question comes from Cynthia Chaplin.

Today’s question(s): 

🇬🇧 Given the fact that we are seeing earlier and earlier harvests due to recent hot summers, what can enologists do to ensure complex and balanced wines in the future?                                                                                                          

🇮🇹 Considerando che le recenti estati calde hanno portato a vendemmie sempre più precoci, cosa possono fare gli enologi per garantire in futuro vini complessi ed equilibrati?

🇬🇧 How is climate change affecting natural yeasts and spontaneous fermentation in Italy? Do you think winemakers will need to rely more on the addition of selected yeasts in the future?                                                                                                                                

🇮🇹 In che modo il cambiamento climatico sta influenzando i lieviti naturali e la fermentazione spontanea in Italia? Pensa che in futuro i viticoltori dovranno affidarsi maggiormente all'aggiunta di lieviti selezionati?

More about Professor Scienza:

Professor Atillio Scienza is the one who checks all the facts and regulates when we mistakenly type “Verdicchio” instead of “Vermentino.” He is a full professor at the University of Milan in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences where he teaches courses on genetic improvements to the vine; he also teaches Viticulture in the Master’s program of the University of Turin in Asti. He has been the lead for many national research projects in the field of physiology, agricultural techniques, and vine genetics. As the author of over 350 publications on vine and viticulture in national and international journals, you can bet he knows his stuff!

To find out more about Attilio Scienza visit:

https://www.vinitaly.com/formazione/vinitaly-international-academy/attilio-scienza/ 

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Welcome to Episode 2257, where we present a session recording from the wine2wine Business Forum 2024. Today’s session is entitled “A glimpse into the future: wine and artificial intelligence” and includes the participation of Professor Atillio Scienza, Professor Carlo Pozzi and Dr. Luca Toninato.

Italian Wine Podcast is proud to be a media partner of wine2wine Business Forum and is pleased to present this series of market-focus sessions, recorded in Verona in November 2024.

wine2wine Business Forum is an international wine business event held annually in Verona, Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and wine professionals from around the world, providing an opportunity to network, develop and expand their wine business worldwide.

Find more about the session at: 

https://www.vinitaly.com/en/events-calendar/wine2wine/ticket-wine2wine-business-forum-2024/a-glimpse-into-the-future-wine-and-artificial-intelligence-aglianico-room/

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Welcome to Episode 2256 of the Italian Wine Podcast and Stevie Kim’s Ambassadors’ Corner on Clubhouse. In this episode Italian Wine Ambassador Anna Obuhovskaya interviews Nicola Ermacora of Ermacora winery.

Today’s learning objectives:

Co-Moderator – Anna Obuhovskaya

Anna Obuhovskaya has 16 years of experience in wine retail, marketing and sales. She worked in a number of bigger wine importing companies and independent projects, and founded the Italian Wine Tasting Club in Saint Petersburg in Russia. In 2023 she became an Italian Wine Ambassador. Driven by passion for European wines she moved from Saint Petersburg to the charming Slovenia to work even closer with European wine producers. Currently Anna lives in Ljubljana where she started a new wine club and collaborates with the wineries and distributors as an independent wine portfolio and sales strategy consultant.  

Connect:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wine_it_anna/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-obuhovskaya-0a4789261/ 

About the guest:

Nicola Ermacora was born and raised in his family’s vineyards in Friuli, where winemaking has been a tradition since 1922. With a background in engineering and experience at renowned Champagne maisons, he returned to pursue his childhood dream: growing the finest Tocai Friulano grapes to craft the most joyful wine. A patient observer, he embraces regenerative agriculture to enhance his family’s legacy while protecting nature. In his free time, he experiments with farming and makes honey with his wife. A true adventurer, he prefers 100 thousand million stars to five-star hotels, recently camping across Costa Rica, Namibia, Tanzania, and New Zealand.

Connect:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ermacora.winery 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ermacora_winery/ 

Website: https://www.ermacora.it/

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Welcome to Episode 2255 in which Cynthia Chaplin interviews Amie Ward in this installment of Voices on the Italian Wine Podcast. Amie is an award-winning bartender and health and well-being advocate in the hospitality sector.

About today’s guest: 

Amie Ward is a Baltimore-based bartender, ACE Certified Health Coach, FMT Mobility Specialist, and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland College Park. She founded The Healthtender in 2017 and also serves as Executive Director of Safe Bars, Online Program Director for HEARD, and President of the Baltimore Bartenders' Guild. Amie has been outspoken on health, equity, and safety in the hospitality industry, and provides training, education, and unrestricted access to wellness resources through these organizations. 

Connect:

Website: https://www.thehealthtender.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehealthtender/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehealthtender/ 

About today’s Host:

VIA certified Italian Wine Ambassador and sommelier with FIS, Cynthia Chaplin is a professor of Italian Wine and Culture, with 20 years experience in the wine industry. Cynthia is a wine content creator, author and judge for several international wine competitions. She designs and presents events for embassies, corporate and private clients, develops Italian wine collections for restaurants and private clients and works with Italian wineries to train their sales and export staff. Hosting Voices has increased her commitment to DEI in the wine sector, interviewing emerging and established wine professionals and discussing topics such as inclusivity, equity, language, sustainability and challenges facing under-represented groups and cultures as they move into careers in wine. As a certified WSET Educator, Cynthia is passionate about developing wine education for a future that will have a place at the table for anyone interested in wine.

Connect:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Italian-Wines-in-English/100036868372598/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiss_my_glassx/?hl=en

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-chaplin-190647179/ 

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Welcome to episode 2254 of the Italian Wine Podcast, and episode 179 of Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon. Marc’s guest today is Anna Paola Barberi of Colle Massari Wine Estates situated in the heart of Tuscany.

More about today’s guest:

Since 2022, Anna Paola Barberi has been the Marketing and Communications Director at ColleMassari Wine Estates, overseeing the strategy and international growth of its four brands: Grattamacco, Poggio di Sotto, San Giorgio, and ColleMassari. She manages both domestic and international marketing, brand identity, digital strategies, and customer experience, and led the partnership with Alinghi Red Bull Racing for the America’s Cup.

A Bocconi University graduate in economics, Anna has extensive experience in marketing for consumer goods and luxury brands, with roles at Sammontana, Bolton Group, and Carapelli. Over the last decade, she’s focused on the wine industry, holding senior positions at Marchesi Frescobaldi and obtaining the AIS Sommelier diploma and WSET Level 2 certification.

In 2024, she was included in Forbes Italia’s list of the 100 Marketing and Communications Directors.

Connect:

Website 

www.collemassari.it

www.collemassarihospitality.it

Instagram

ColleMassari

ColleMassari Hospitality

LinkedIn

ColleMassari

Facebook

ColleMassari

ColleMassari Hospitality

More about the host:

Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers’ Companion Italy, The Food Lovers’ Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK’s leading cultural travel specialist. He has also been the host of the ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’ series on the Italian Wine Podcast since 2021. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England.

Connect:

Website: 

https://www.quaypress.uk  

https://www.marcmillon.co.uk 

https://www.vino.co.uk   

https://www.quaypress.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Marc_Millon 

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Thanks for listening! This show is all about food and wine pairings, and traveling through Italy with Marc. Join him on this food, wine and cultural journey!

Welcome to Episode 2253 of the Italian Wine Podcast. In this episode Barbara Fitzgerald interviews Bobby Domenick, the general manager of one of Philadelphia’s most famous restaurants, Vetri.

More about the guest: 

Bobby Domenick is the general manager of one of Philadelphia’s most famous restaurants, Vetri, known for its stunning Italian food and wine and exceptional service. Bobby is a certified sommelier and Italian Wine Ambassador.

Connect:

Website: https://vetricucina.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobby_domenick/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-domenick-14a5a5105/

More about the host:  

With a career of nearly two decades in the wine industry, Barbara specializes in D2C marketing and business development. She's led roles from entry level to senior management, combining her extensive experience with data analysis, critical thinking and storytelling while driving revenue growth and brand recognition for California wineries. As a part of the 4th generation of an Italian-American family among the California wine industry pioneers, Barbara has spent her life around wine growing, production, marketing, distribution and hospitality. A Syracuse University graduate, she returned to California to gain diverse industry perspectives from a range of wineries. As an Italian Wine Ambassador, she brings her expertise to the Italian wine market, known for its authenticity and consumer demand. Barbara now runs Apri La Creative Consulting, coaching wineries in Italy and the US to strategically develop their D2C channels in line with their brand values. Together with her husband, Barbara also owns and operates a boutique wine production company, and a small import company specializing in Italian wines to the US.

Connect:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprilabottiglia

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-fitzgerald-iwa/

Website: https://www.aprilacreative.com

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Welcome to the Next Generation and Episode 2252 of the Italian Wine Podcast. Today, Giulia Stocchetti interviews Valerio Di Mauro, owner of Colle Picchioni, a traditional winery in Lazio.

More about today’s guest:

Valerio Di Mauro is owner of Colle Picchioni, a traditional winery in Lazio, begun in 1976 when it was founded by his grandmother, Paola Di Mauro. Having started studying law, he chose a career in winemaking, bringing innovation and imagination to the family property. Today, he manages the winery and winemaking, taking care that each bottle conveys Castelli Romani volcanic terroir in a new and individualistic manner. Continuing with traditional methods, but with new experiments, such as producing a Metodo Classico spumante with a re-emerged variety, Giulia, he remains committed to both narrative and sustainability, working to transmit Colle Picchioni's soul to Italian and international wine drinkers alike.

Connect: 

Website: https://collepicchioni.it/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collepicchioni/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/colle-picchioni-winery 

More about today’s host:

Giulia is an AIS Sommelier and holds the WSET Diploma. She has 360° experience in the cellar, harvesting, tasting and teaching. Enthusiastic communicator of wine, she believes every bottle is a small universe to discover and her slogan is “sharing wine means love.”

She’s passionate about terroir wines made with autochthonous grape varieties and constantly looking for them and their small producers.

Connect:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giulia.caravaggi/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewinesoulgirl/?hl=en 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giulia-stocchetti-caravaggi-58a54ab0/ 

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