Episode 834 Cynthia Chaplin interviews Phil Long, in this new installment of Voices, on the Italian Wine Podcast.

More about today’s guests:

Livermore Valley winemaker Phil Long is the president of the Association of African American Vintners (AAAV) and the founder of Longevity Wines, a brand based on his love affair with his wife, Debra. They were focused on offering inclusive wine experiences until Debra lost her battle with pancreatic cancer in 2019. Phil personally designed the delicate heart logo on their bottles, then had it tattooed on his forearm before she died so that she will always be with him.

Longevity was named Livermore Valley’s Winery of the Year just a few days before Debra died and is now one of the largest brands in Livermore Valley thanks to a partnership with Bronco Wine Company. As president of AAAV, Phil is devoted to elevating awareness of African Americans in the wine industry and paving paths to wine careers for all minorities.

If you want to learn more about today’s guests, you can by visiting:

Website: www.longevitywines.com

Instagram: instagram.com/longevity_wines

Facebook: www.facebook.com/LongevityWines

About today’s Host:

Cynthia Chaplin is a Vinitaly International Academy certified Italian Wine Ambassador, a professional sommelier with Fondazione Italiana Sommelier, a member of Le Donne del Vino, and a Professor of Italian wine and culture. Born in the USA, Cynthia moved to Europe in 1990 where she has lived in Spain, Belgium, England and Italy. She chose to center her career in Rome and immerse herself in the Italian wine sector, which is her passion. She has taught university students and expats, works with embassies, corporations and private clients, creating and presenting tastings, events, seminars and in-depth courses. Cynthia is a wine writer, translator, and a judge at international wine and sake competitions. She consults with restaurants and enotecas assisting in the development of comprehensive wine lists and excellent food pairings, as well as advising private clients who want to develop a comprehensive Italian wine collection. She lives with her British photographer husband on the shore of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome, where they share their beautiful garden with one massive grapevine, two border collies and an arrogant diva cat.

If you want to learn more about today’s host, you can by visiting:

Facebook: Italian Wines in English

Instagram: kiss_my_glassx

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

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Italian Wine Podcast ep. 529 bis Russian Tour Special

Stevie Kim interviewes Francesco Pensabene - Trade Commissioner, Director of ICE MOSCOW, Trade Promotion Section of the Italian Embassy in Moscow, Coordinator for Russian Federation, Armenia & Belarus.

Catalogo Borsa Vini - Vinitaly Russia: eventi.vinitalytour.com/en/catalogue/

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Episode 833 Marc Millon interviews Giancarlo Gariglio, in this episode of Italian Food & Wine with Marc Millon on the Italian Wine Podcast.

More about today’s guest:

Giancarlo Gariglio is the organizer of the international Vignerons d'Europe event, and he specializes as the Co-Editor of the Guida al Vino Quotidiano of Slow Food Editore.

Sana Slow Food:

If you want to learn more you can by visiting:

www.linkedin.com/in/giancarlo-gariglio-a458438

slowfood.it

vigneronsdeurope.it

More about the host Marc Millon:

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 is soon to begin a regular series on Italian Wine Podcast, ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England

If you want to learn more about today’s guest, you can by visiting:

quaypress.uk/

marcmillon.co.uk

vino.co.uk

quaypress.com

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

Twitter: @Marc_Millon

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Episode 832 Steve Raye interviews Martin Sinkoff and Roger Bohmrich in this installment of Get US Market Ready With Italian Wine People on the Italian Wine Podcast.

About today’s guests:

Roger C. Bohmrich MW has enjoyed a long career in the wine trade, which he joined after receiving an MA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has worked at multiple tiers of the trade, spending many years with importers Frederick Wildman & Sons, last as Senior VP-Marketing. He was responsible for wineries from a dozen countries in that role. He also directed a department in all facets of brand management, sales promotion, and public relations. Roger was one of the first Americans to be awarded the Master of Wine title and was founding President of the Institute of Masters of Wine (No. America). As its Managing Partner, he set up Millesima USA, the affiliate of a prominent French online merchant, then established his own consultancy, Vintrinsic Solutions. More recently, Roger joined forces with Martin Sinkoff Associates to provide strategic advice to wineries seeking to enter or improve their position on the U.S. market. He still pursues his independent activities as a speaker, writer, and educator.

Find out more:

Website: www.vintrinsic.com | www.sinkoff.com

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/roger-bohmrich-mw

Martin Sinkoff is a wine industry professional who has worked at every level of the wine trade since 1978 when he entered the trade. He is a graduate of Brown University (Ivy League) in literature and of Southern Methodist University MBA in the United States and, earlier, of the Institut Franco-Americain (School Year Abroad) in Rennes, France. Sinkoff entered the wine trade as a retail clerk working for the prestigious Morrell & Company in New York in 1978. After that, in 1979, he was recruited and hired by the great Alexis Lichine to work at this estate in Bordeaux, Chateau Prieure-Lichine, as his assistant and editor for his books. When Sinkoff returned to the United States in 1980 he was recruited by Glazer’s Distributors to build a wine department for the distributor based in Dallas, Texas.

Sinkoff worked as Fine Wine Director for Glazer’s from 1980 – 1990 and built the company, which had almost now wines in its portfolio, into one of the largest wine distributors in the United States. Brands Sinkoff brought to Glazer’s included Guigal, Duboeuf, a wide portfolio of Bordeaux wines, Iron Horse and Beringer from California. In 1990, Sinkoff left Glazer’s to become managing partner of Val d’Orbieu Wines, the US subsidiary of a large French winery. There Sinkoff created the brands Reserve St. Martin and La Cuvee Mythique which still exist today. In 1996, Val d’Orbieu Wines became the property of Martin Sinkoff and the company was renamed Martin Sinkoff Wines, Inc. which still operates to this day…

Find out more:

Website: www.sinkoff.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/mjsinkoff/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/mjsinkoff

More about the host Steve Raye:

Steve Raye of Bevology Inc originally joined our weekly lineup with narrations from his book “How to get US Market Ready” - but everyone just loved him so much, we brought him back with this series of interviews that informs and inspires! Each week he speaks to industry professionals; guests who have gained valuable experience in the Italian wine sector and have insightful tips and stories that can help anyone who wants to learn about getting US Market Ready!

For more information on the host Steve Raye you can check out his website, Bevology Inc. here: www.bevologyinc.com/

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Welcome to episode 831 in which host Polly Hammond interviews Robert Joseph in this episode of Uncorked,

More about today’s guest:

Robert Joseph is an editor at Large, Meininger’s Wine Business International

Robert is a wine business consultant and an editorial consultant for Meininger’s Wine Business International, which he helped to launch in 2006. In 1983, after living in Burgundy for five years, he launched the Wine International magazine; set up the International Wine Challenge; became wine writer for the Sunday Telegraph and wrote his first book: The Wine Lists. He is the Chairman of the Wine Institute of Asia, and has chaired and launched wine competitions in several countries. Robert has been on the UK Who’s Who list since 2013, and the awards he has received include the Jacob’s Creek ‘Golden Vine’; ‘the Best Wine Guide in the World’; the Glenfiddich (twice); The Wine Guild of the United Kingdom Premier; the Marques de Caceres. He regularly appears on television and radio, and he is also regularly invited to lecture at the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust. Joseph is one of the trio behind Hugh Kevin & Robert Wines whose wines now sell over 2.5m bottles per year in 40 countries. His blog is The Joseph Report.

" I wear several hats in the wine world. These include wine production (as one of the trio behind Hugh, Kevin & Robert, with brands including le Grand Noir, Greener Planet; public speaking (MUST, Wine2Wine, FineMinds4FineWines, Nedbank/Vinpro etc); consultancy (to companies and generic organisations); industry journalism (as editor at large of Meininger's Wine Business International); and teaching - Burgundy Business School, Sonoma State etc).

Co-creator of realbizwine.com/

My next book - The Future of Wine has Changed will be published in June 2020)

Winner: 2018 Vinventions Award for Innovations

Specialties: wine evaluation, wine brand creation, publishing, industry analysis, public speaking, book authorship/editing/publishing."

If you want to learn more about today’s guest, you can by visiting:

instagram @wine_thinker

More about the host Polly Hammond:

Polly is Founder and CEO of 5forests. She splits her time between Barcelona, Auckland, and Napa, consulting, writing, and speaking about the trends that impact today’s wine businesses. She’s an advisor to New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, host of Uncorked with the Italian Wine Podcast, cohost of the Real Business of Wine with Robert Joseph, and, occasionally, a knitter.

Polly is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she earned degrees in International Relations and French. Those studies led to a deep and abiding love affair with behavioural Economics, and her wine work is based on insights into all the crazy and irrational reasons consumers engage with brands.

With over 20 years experience in growing successful companies, Polly knows first hand the challenges faced by independent businesses. She approaches each client experience with empathy and understanding for what it takes to adapt and thrive in the real world.

To learn more about Polly Hammond visit:

Twitter: @mme_hammond

Instagram: @5forests

website: 5forests.com/

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Welcome to episode 830, the third in our new 7-part series with our fantastic partners, Maze Row Wine Merchant. We are proud to present this series of interviews, diving deep into the heritage and legacy of their excellent Italian producers, celebrating Gallo's launch of this new brand identity for their importer, Maze Row Wine Merchant, shared for the first time in this episode with Marilisa Allegrini. Tune in every Saturday from 5 March through 16 April as we take an intimate look at these esteemed historic producers and their role as part of Maze Row.

This episode has Sarah Bray of Batonnage Forum interviewing Marilisa Allegrini. The Allegrini Family has been producing wine for over four hundred years. Through its constant commitment to reinforcing and promoting agricultural traditions, it has made a significant contribution to the development of the Valpolicella area, helping it to become the cradle of great red wines. Today Allegrini today is a consolidated group of companies and one of the most dynamic and well-known wine producers in Italy and abroad. Its roots lie in Fumane di Valpolicella where, in 1854, the Azienda Agricola was founded and headed, over subsequent decades, by consecutive generations of the Allegrini Family.

To learn more about Allegrini visit: allegrini.it/

To learn more about Maze Row Wine Merchant, visit: www.mazerow.com www.instagram.com/mazerowwines/ www.facebook.com/search/top?q=maz…wines%20merchant

More about the host Sarah Bray: Sarah is the co-founder of Batonnage Forum and holds the DipWSET. She is a wine-focused communications professional with a background in editorial and brand content creation, strategic development and implementation, event planning and execution, digital marketing, and education.

To find out more about Sarah Bray visit: Facebook:www.facebook.com/sarah.h.bray Instagram: www.instagram.com/sarah.h.bray/ Website:sarahhbray.com/about/ Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sarahhbray/

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