Gian Luca Colombo is a winemaking consultant turned winemaker at his small artesan winery Segni di Langa. In this episode he talks to Heine Johansen about how he came into wine, his ideas about winemaking and how he sees the future of winemaking in the Piedmont region. He is also one of few producers making pinot noir in Italy, and doing so in a very high level.

Segni di Langa wines review

Verduno Pelaverga 2021

Medium+ intensity nose. Red berries, spice, green bell peppers. Medium+ intensity mouthfeel. Light body, high- acidity, light+ tannin. Black and red cherries, cherry pit, green herbs, blackcurrant leaf. Fresh glou glou wine. Fruitdriven throughout. 88p

Langhe Pinot Nero 2021

Medium intensity nose. Red cherries, raspberries, lavender, almonds, herbs. Medium+ intensity mouthfeel. Medium bodied, light+ tannin, high- acidity. Very well balanced and linear. Fruitdriven throughout. Fresh aftertaste. 93p

Barbera d'Alba Superiore 2021

Medium+ intensity nose. Black cherries, almonds, cured meat, herbs. Elegant. Medium+ intensity mouthfeel. Medium bodied, high acidity, light+ tannin. Finely grained tannins, long fresh ending. Young. 92p

Barolo 2017

Medium intensity nose. Candied cherries, pine seeds, menthol, dried wood, herbs, unripe blackcurrant. High intensity mouthfeel. Medium bodied, high- acidity, medium tannin. Red berries, red flowers, red apple peel. Very balanced and linear. Fresh throughout the taste curve. 92p.

Barolo 2018

Low intensity nose. Red fruit, violet, red cherries, herbs. A bit "green". High intensity mouthfeel. Medium bodied, medium tannin medium+ acidity. Fruity throughout the taste curve. Straightforward and easy drinking for a Barolo. 89p

Barolo 2019

Medium+ intensity nose. Ripe black cherries, red flowers, red plum, almonds, herbs. High intensity mouthfeel. Medium bodied. Medium+ tannin, high acidity. Slightly young and attacking tannins. Very well consentrated with alot of depth. Will mature well. Elegant and fresh throughout the taste curve. 93p.

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"THE HOBO WINE COMPANY IS THE BRAINCHILD, SIDE JOB, MENACE TO THE WINE INDUSTRY, HEDGED BET, CASH STRAIN, MENTAL ANGUISH, LATE NIGHT MUSING, BRUISED HANDS, DIRTY T-SHIRTS, AND CONSTANT COMPANION OF KENNY LIKITPRAKONG. DESPITE KNOWING BETTER, HE STARTED HIS OWN LABEL IN 2002 WITH THE SIMPLE IDEA TO HAVE SOME GOOD FUN." That's how Kenny Likitprakong likes to describe his wine venture. For almost 20 years, he's still going strong in California!

In this episode Kenny talks about the americana culture that has inspired him, and in wanting to make wines at a price point that he could afford to drink himself. He talks about many of the lesser known grapes that they use in their production, and about some of the challenges that California winemakers will face in the years to come. He also let's on a political stance in taking about the background for the name of the 2017 "Batten down the hatches, the storm is coming" Pinot Noir.

Music mention: Woodie Guthrie

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Jasmine Hirsch talks about how her father started the Hirsch Vineyards, situated on the Sonoma Coast. They live in a very remote location. It’s about 1 hour to the nearest supermarket, and they only had 12 volt electricity growing up. She gives a detailed description on their winemaking, having just taken over the winemaking for the wines herself, 2019 being her first vintage. 

She says both she and Hirsch as a family are learning, and are taking a conservative approach to how they treat their wine, wanting to keep the expression more or less the same. 

She talks about how her father grew to be a celebrity winemaker from selling fruit for bulk wine, and how different it is producing wine in what she calls ‘the true Sonoma coast’. «You have to be independent minded, you have to be stubborn, you can’t be afraid of hard work and you have to believe in what you’re doing», Jasmine Hirsch says. 

She goes on to talk about the collaborations of the California vintners, and of what makes a lot of the later Sonoma vintages special. 

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We talk about the differences in how they came to wine, about their views on winemaking and a bit about their market position - and also about they came to know each other. 

 We also talk about the threat of imposing an import tax on European wines in the US and how it will effect the American market. 

Chanin and Parr also share some of their view on what they think the future will hold share some of their favourite wine areas. 

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Dominik Sona took over as winemaker for Koehler-Ruprecht inn 2008. Before starting at Koehler-Ruprecht, he's worked at Neiss, Kuhn, Van Volxem, Flowers, Littorai and as estate manager for J.L. Wolf. He says one of the most important parts of his job is upholding tradition.

They use very old wooden vats, some of them well over a hundred years old. This is one of the things that sets them aside from most other riesling producers.

The estate consists of 10.5 hectares of vines, principally in Riesling (50%) but also in Pinot Noir (20%), Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer and Scheurebe on three separate terroirs: Saumagen, Steinacker and Annaberg.

Recorded at Don Pippo, Bergen, Norway
A part of the nattverden.com collective. 

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Andreas Adam has just gone into his 21st year of winemaking, starting out as a young man. Keeping 5 HA of vineyards of historical reknown around the village of Piesport, he says he wants to make the wines so that it is the expression of the soil, not the man. We talk about some of his ideas on winemaking, on working the immensely steep hills of the Mosel and a bit about the history of the region. We get into wether it will have any effect that Klaus Petter Keller, the famous vintner in Rheinhessen, has just bought one of the premier sites in the area - and a bit about how there is a real tradition for quality distinctions of the vineyards in the Mosel, dating back from prussian times. 

We also talk a bit about how it is working closely with family and some of Andreas'es plans for the future. 

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