Ep. 2045 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 81 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0
Episode 2045

Ep. 2045 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 81 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

August 10, 2024
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Marco Gandini
Wine
wine
plants
cosmetics
italy
fruits

Episode Summary

Content Analysis Key Themes and Main Ideas 1. Promotion and offerings of the Italian Wine Podcast. 2. Detailed descriptions of various Italian grape varietals. 3. Distinctions between grape names, origins, and regional associations (DOC/DOP/IGT). 4. Viticultural characteristics of specific grape varieties (e.g., bunch size, vigor, disease resistance). 5. Sensory profiles of wines made from different Italian grapes (aromas, flavors, acidity, color). Summary This segment of the Italian Wine Podcast begins with promotional announcements, inviting listeners to become Italian Wine Ambassadors and encouraging them to purchase the new ""Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0"" textbook. The core of the content then shifts to detailed descriptions of several Italian grape varieties, both red and white. For each grape – Pignoletto, Prié Blanc, Pugnitello, Quagliano, Rosada, Roccese Bianco, Rousanne de Maroger, and Robiello Bianco – the speaker provides information on its name origin, associated regions and appellations (DOC, IGT), vineyard characteristics (such as bunch size, skin thickness, productivity, and disease susceptibility), and sensory profiles of the wines produced (including color, aroma, flavor notes, and acidity). The descriptions highlight the unique qualities and regional specificity of each grape, often noting their rarity or traditional uses. The segment concludes with a standard call to action for listeners to engage with the podcast. Takeaways - The Italian Wine Podcast promotes an ""Italian Wine Ambassador"" network and a new edition of their textbook, ""Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0."

About This Episode

Viner offers a range of wine-pallets, including a new Italian textbook and wine website, Prinita, a wine-pallet with natural diversity and a wine-pallet called V Agree, and a new wine brand called Prinita. The wines are typically made with a mix of similar quality and variety, with some being monovari commodity. The wines are typically blended with a strong pepper and garlic flavor, with some being monovari commodity and not related to the national registry of the Piedmontese. The wines are typically not related to the name of the region where the wines are located.

Transcript

Who wants to be the next Italian wine Ambassador? Join an exclusive network of four hundred Italian wine ambassadors across forty eight countries. Vineetly International Academy is coming to Chicago on October nineteenth is twenty first. And while Mati Kazakhstan from November sixteenth to eighteenth. Don't miss out. Register now at Vineeti dot com. For all the super wine geeks out there, we have a special new series dedicated to you. We are reading excerpts from our new addition of Italian wine unplugged two point o. Wine lovers tune in for your weekly fix. Only on Italian wine podcast. If you want to own a copy of this new must read Italian wine textbook, just go to amazon dot com or visit us at mama jumbo shrimp dot com. White description. Its name derives from pinya or pinya, meaning pine cone or fist associated regions and DOPs. Venital, it can be found in the DOC colony Pinalo, minimum eighty five percent, and blended with the DOC colony Yanko. In the vineyard, The bunch is medium small and extremely compact with medium sized berries. It is an abundant and dependable producer, but Vutrides branch rod can be a big problem. In the glass, delicately aromatic nose of sweet spices and flowers, Jasmine. It is bright and fresh on the palette with hints of pineapple and apple. The variety's acidity is such that's parking wines can be also made from it. Rhett description, though the official name of this variety in the national registry is everyone in Italy calls it Prinita. Its name derives from the Italian word prima or prima Tcha, meaning before or early, referring to the grape's early ripening, the same applies to Primentigo and other similarly named varieties. The correct name should be Primenta. It is the result of the natural crossing between And then the no other parents. Associated regions and DOPs. Aosta Valley, today fairly rare. It is located in few actors mainly around same calf, Aimaville, Sendinee, and quark. It is present in the TOC wines, Valeda, minimum eighty five percent, and it can also be monovarietal. In the vineyard, large bunches with medium sized round berries with thick skins. It is very productive and mercifully early ripening given the alpine climate it lives in. Personally, it tolerates cold weather well. Viner's up to eight hundred meter above sea level. In the glass, the wine is dark pink with garnet amber tinges. The step is intense with aromas and flavors of roses, red currants, and strawberries with light canons and low acidity. Red description, a relative newcomer, eighteen eighty one. Its name derives from its small compact bunch reminiscent of a closed small fist. Pungo means fist. The telos effects makes it a small fist. Associated regions and DOPs. Tuscany, it is used in IGT brands such as Costa Toskana and Montecastelli. In the vineyard looks a little like small sized sparse bunches and small berries with resistant skin. This is resistance and very vigorous though it has a low productivity. In the glass, it has also many of the qualities of multiple channel rich color, flashy fruit, but it's not as reductive and the wines tend to be more fruity and perfumed. Very rich and thick red cherry aromas and flavors, complicated by plum jam, Vernon almond, leather earthy notes. Quayano. Red description, one's also called Negrodolce, associated regions and COPs. Piedmont. It is native to the Salucze area of Piedmont and the province of Kunio, around the towns of Pano, Piasco, Busca, Brondello, Castillo, Salutzo, Salutzo, and Virzwalo. The wine is a DOC also available in a sparkling version. End the vineyard, medium sized bunches, medium large berries with extremely thin skin. Good vigor, abundant productivity, and quite good disease resistance. In the glass, it is a delightful pink, cute, light bodied sweet wine that will remind you of straw. Rosada, Red. Description also called Rosera. Associated regions and GOPs. Is today found exclusively in Cretino close to the border with alto adige There are clearly no DOC wines and few manavarietal wines as Rosara is almost always blended with Teroltego and or Necrada Trrentina. There are a few man of arrival Rosada labeled as an IGT vigneti belle dolomite. In the vineyard, large bunches with medium berries. Very vigorous, it has a regular dependable and abandoned productivity, late Ragini, which makes it sensitive to Matrady's bunch rot. In the glass, Rosada provides the somewhat rustic and heavy taroldigo wines with a touch of aromatic spices and freshness. The wine has a very pretty clear, dark pink hue and includes aromas of fresh, small red berries, lemon apples, plus hints of iris and Jasmine with a definite celine tinge and plenty of acidity. Rocesebianco white. Description, Rosesebianco is so named for both its white grape and the white wine it produces. Associated regions and COPs. There is more than one grape called, but the national registry officially lists only the Piedmontese one. In Piedmont, Eroceze Yanko variety grows near Montforte signio and Rotino, and the province of Cuneo. Langa DOC is the only DOC wine in which the grape can be used. There are some laguorian table wines with Rosese de Yanko di Sam yacho. In the vineyard, medium large sized bunches with small berries. Quite vigorous on average resistance, productivity very dependent on the season. In the glass, the Pied Montez rocis bianco will remind you a little of Vermentino, but with more flesh to the delicate fruit aromas and flavors, ripe citrus nectarine, and stronger herbal new ants with less salinity than those from liguria that are leaner and fresher with more floral and celine nuances. Oh, San de Moshe, red. Description Not much is known about Rusanne de Margier. It is not related to the regularly named Rusanne, another rare variety found in Elseveli, and the one officially listed in the National Registry. Associated regions and DOPs, Alstevelli. In the vineyards around the village of Morche. In the winner, Rosanne de Mosche is currently an experimental project in Alstevelli. In the glass, the first microvinnifications of experimental batches of the wine reveal personally fragrant aromas of wild strawberry, almond flowers, and fresh mountain herbs high acidity level, which suggests good potential for sparkling wines. Robiello white description also called Robiello Bianco Though Grekomus or Grekomuso is the most commonly used name by locals. Associated regions and DOPs, Campania. In the countryside around Taurasi, Paso de mirabella and Bolito in the province of Avelino. DOC areas do not exist in the vineyard medium small sized bunches and berries with thick skin. It is an early ripening variety. In the glass. It is a very difficult variety in the cellar. It is an aromatic variety. So the wines are reminiscent of those made with muscato or Gewertramina, though less aromatic. Strong flint, almond, grass, and apple aromas, and flavors, complicated by aromatic spices. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your pot podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple podcasts, Spotify, email ISM, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through online podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time.