Ep. 293 Gianlorenzo Neri (Casanova di Neri) | Discover Italian Regions: Tuscany / Toscana

Italian wine podcast. Chincin with Italian wine people. Hello. This is the Italian wine podcast. My name is Monte Walden, and my guest today is Jan Lorenzo Nare of Casanova Dineri. Okay. Which wine did you bring in today? I decided to bring the, tenuto nova two thousand and fifteen. Okay. Tell us what is tenuto nova? You know, it meets a new piece of land, new estate, but, for us, for, my family, it meets, a new visionary and and pioneering, being a project, and, I knew idea of why. And, you know, Tanutanwawa was, a project that, my father, Jacamo, the second generation, decided to do thirty five years ago, buying a piece of land in the south, Parko Montachino, from a shepherd. So this guy wanted to move away from there because, the, the, the place was too rocky for, for the ships and for Kenimo to survive. So he said, this is is too rocky. For me. It's there's there are only rocks and olive trees. So, you you you can take this land, and do whatever you want. I'm gonna move, to another area where where I can grow my animals, in, way better way. And, my father planted the Santa Vese there and produced a from nineteen ninety three. Okay. So your father is called Jakumar, and your aunt is called Anna. Your younger brother is Giovanni. My my older brother is Joanne. We they have a younger sister. And she's called Mariana. So she doesn't begin with a g then. Yeah. Yeah. But she she's part of, of the family of the one thirty two. So she maybe she will join us one day. Okay. Next question. You invite me for a picnic. And we have to go into one of your vineyards. Which one would we have the picnic in? Oh, I will see in in in all because All of our vineyards are beautiful places for for a picnic and even more. But, for sure can be a great spot for a picnic as well as which is, not too far away from where we live, where we both live. It's a unique place. You see the, the incredible soil, the irony soil, and, the landscape you have in in in in front of you is is breathtaking. I think we we live in a Yeah. It's a beautiful vineyard. Okay. My next question. Imagine your brother is called away to leave the winery for a couple of days, and you have to work in the winery. What jobs do you have to cover within the winery? I mean, I'm I'm more in charge of, the the sales. For the winery. So my brother is, completely in charge of the winemaking process. And, so but, at the end, it's, you know, it's a group effort. There's not a precise division of, things to do and not to do. He he go he travels around the world as well as I can stay in in in the cellar working with, with our master seller. So we all know what has to be done. Okay. Final question. When you go into the market for wine, what are the trends that you seek? You mean from from the customers? Yeah. Yep. I mean, the customers are appreciating, many, many things about us, for sure. The first is, the quality of our lines. And, the, the very distinctive character of our wines and the fact that we are a family, and, that we, we We are a family. Everything is done, from the fam by the family members. And, that we personally take care of, every step of, the production from the vineyard to seller to the selling and everything is done, from us and from our group of, colleagues, which is also part of the family. So, yeah, We are able to, deliver not only, the story and, what is behind the battles. Of course, the wines are very high quality, but they also show the history of the family, they also show, the way we want to work, the way we work in the vineyards and the way we work in the cellar, and they also show our philosophy, our way of thinking, which, I think is very precise. Okay. One more question. If I come to see you this evening and we have dinner, what is your favorite traditional Bruno? Except from our It's it's a very hard question because I like, I like quite many. For, for example, if if I have to pick one, oh, it's it's very hard. But, we we drank, two nights ago. Pian de Lourino, two thousand and fourteen. The rosarimontaccino, which is, like, for them is, like, declassified Bernelo, but it was fantastic. For example. Okay. So you're gonna survive on wine alone. That's why you're so thin. There are so many others, and I appreciate the quality of of of the work they have done in such a challenging year, and, it was a great wine. But that there's so many there are many others that are producing fantastic Brunellos. I'm I'm picking all you one that I trained recently. So Okay. I just wanna say thanks to my guest, Jan Lorenzo Norenzo Neri. Oh, thanks for joining us today. It hasn't been easy with the audio. But thank you. It might be as, as usual. I hope to see you in person when everything dies down. Please say hi to your family for, ma'am. I really hope soon. Yeah. Thanks very much. Take care and, hope to see you soon with with a glass of wine. Listen to all of our pods on Sound Cloud iTunes, iTunes, Spotify, HimalayaFM, and on Italian Mind Podcast dot com. Don't forget to send your tweets to at itaewine podcast.