SECOND EPISODE… Let’s goooo.

 

This week we get to tasting our first wine (…finally…) on the podcast! I get into my career background, how I landed my wine harvest internship and dive right into tasting one of my favorite Italian grapes (nebbiolo).  We do touch on the spider situation in my current living quarters but over all I am so thankful to be living on a vineyard, experiencing and learning as much as I can!

 

I can’t wait for you to listen and really hope you enjoy this one.

 

Today’s wine is: Renato Ratti Ochetti Nebbiolo 2021 (price point between $26-$30)

 

1:50 - Career background & how the podcast was created.

3:00 - Wine harvest: how & why

4:20 - Interviews are rough

4:45 - The worst that can happen is “no”

5:45 - Barn house + spiders

6:30 - Wine @sospiro_naturalwinebar in Coral Gable Miami, FL with Fabrizio

8:10 - What “vintage” means on a wine bottle

9:00 - History on Renato Ratti, Langhe & the nebbiolo grape.

10:50 - Protecting Italian borders & the meaning behind “Ochetti” 

12:40 - How to open a bottle of wine

16:20 - Optimal temperature for red wines

19:05 - How to hold a wine glass 

21:30 - Tasting notes on this weeks wine

25:30 - Foods that I think go with this wine

 

 

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