Ep. 291 #iobevoacasa - LOCKDOWN SERIES | Michelle Erland and Matteo Ascheri

You had to name a child after a great variety. Which variety would it be and why? Welcome to the Italian wine podcast lockdown series. Every Monday will be connecting with Italian wine people. Join us to find out what they're doing and drinking today. This podcast is brought to you by Colangelo and Partners, the leading fine wine and spirits agency in the US. Visit Colangelo and partners on w w w dot calangelo p r dot com. One journal. Ciao. Ciao. How are you, Mateo, Scari? Quite well, you know, at all. Yep. Where are you right now? Tom. Yeah. Drinking a good glass of Barolo twenty sixteen. So, okay. Oh, actually, I am, home as well here in New York. I'm drinking a Wow. Twenty fifteen. I picked up a the barolo barbaresco World opening last month. Okay. Great. Perfect breakfast for lockdown. Chincin. Salutte. Yeah. Salutte. So So tell me now that you have been home, how many weeks have you been home now, on lockdown? I don't know exactly a lot, by the way. Times is just beginning of March, since the beginning of March, is all the time. Yeah. But we are not looking backwards. We're looking to submit that. Okay. Regarding that the next day, hopefully everything will be better in the future. Great. Well, listen. Now that you are home, I've been home for a month now. Would you say that you are drinking more, more, or less? There's nothing more. Everything also a lot, as you can see from my face. What's What's your favorite, pairing that you've been, cooking along with your bowl? Oh, made pasta with chicken liver, fig, fig, the chicken liver, sauce. Fantastic. And I'll be like, okay, you're all good stuff, by the way. If you want, okay, we have great things, great wines, but also great food. Thanks, Scott. So we are surviving well, surviving a difficult way. Want in a good way talking about the food. Yeah. Amazing. So I have a question. Franco. If you had to name a child after a great variety, which variety would it be and why? To name a child with the Gravarado name. Yeah. It is a nine man, poor child, you know, they're in that. I would never do this kind of things. Okay. Could we okay. I'm nice. Talking about, local grapes that, literally, in our dialect, it means a little rascal. So, okay, but could be dangerous at the end. Of course. It would be a good one. I mean, but, pardon me, I don't know. Yeah. Exactly. Let's go. Barbara Asquieri. That's that's a good name. Yeah. Okay. Good work. It does exactly. Amazing. So yeah. For for a boy, Doncito is a good name. Okay. It's a little sweet one. Yeah. It's perfect. A little sweet one. So all these grapes, it's their personality that that's given them their name. It's the same as children. So if a child If a child was being named Nebula, for example, what would be their personality? Complex. Complex. Complex. Yeah. Exactly. Very profound, very, deep, you know, not easy to know, but okay. In this way. Yeah. He's a good he's a good comparison. Yes. Exactly. So we talked about what you've been eating and what you've been drinking on during lockdown this past month. But tell me something. If you could choose one song to summarize your time and lockdown, what would it be? Okay. I'm a I'm a fan. I'm a great fan of the Dutch mode. Let's say enjoy the silence. Is really a great song for this. Enjoy the salads. Enjoy the silence. Oh, enjoy the silence. Yeah. I don't know how that goes. Yeah. It does well. It's it's a great, great song. Can you Yeah. Can you sing for me? I don't know how it goes. No. Please. Please. No. I'm gonna be ruining all the interview. Please stop. Okay. But you can find, usually, the Peshmaul, exactly. The Peshmaul room. Okay. I'm gonna look it up. Yeah. Enjoy the silence. Yes. Enjoy the silence. Yeah. It's perfect for these days. So name three wines that are always open in your cantina. Okay. My wines, of course, because we are drinking our wines. But apart this, I like a lot, wines made with pinot noir. You know, it's a variety of similar to we're gonna be offering many kind of reasons of coming one, coming from burgundy or from Italy from Alto AdiJ. Mhmm. Outside Italy, the new word, Oregon. These are the great expression of the opinion who are in the world or my opinion or some great wines. Likes Union. They like a lot, or are glu grounded with leaner. These are mostly unwinds. It's, of course, a part our people. You are a wine lover. You can tell. You can see my shape. Wine and food lover is is doubtly is something that you can really imagine. Not imagine. It's very simple to understand at the end. So if you had if you were only able to choose one wine for the rest of your life to drink, That wasn't yours. What would it be? My bad. Okay. Right. Okay. That's fine. Man. Yes. Maybe one one pin on wire coming from Burgundy. Seventeen, one of the best, especially. Amazing. Very classical. I'm a classical boy too. Yeah. So A classic you like the classic expression? Yeah. Exactly. Yes. Exactly. But talking about wine and food, I'm reliable. So okay. So you talked about what was the best meal that you've had so far in lockdown? Every day. You know, have my wife, my mother, that she had always cookie all day. So every day is a surprise. At ravioli, with me, the stuff, fantastic, hiring, you know, homemade pasta, typical from, from our region. So you you have children. Right? Yes. I have two boys. Yes. Exactly. Two boys. Are they, planning to follow your footsteps? Yeah. They're just starting now, okay, the enjoying the winery and all the other activities that that we have. How old are your kids? It was twenty six, twenty, and the first one was twenty nine. So so which child would you say would be more of the Dolcshedo and which one was more of the nebbiolo? The first one, Jacamo is more than the nebbiolo, of course. The second one, his name like me. Mateo is much more, let's say, is an easy one. And, the third one, Andrea, is a mailing name. Let's say, yeah, more and nice. Yeah. More more hierarchical, more a little. No, please, little because, okay, it's baby, but okay, Araskal. Amazing. So what other hobbies do you have besides, winemaking? I do eat a lot. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. This is good. Yeah. You eat a lot? Are you a chef? No. I'm not a chef. I'm, I eat. I don't eat any. Control. Yes. Exactly. We have also a restaurant. Official equality controller over there. The restaurant is run by my sister. No. I like to to travel when this was possible. So I'm really hoping to come back to this kind of thing, to be in the IC side. To to to go to the movie to see nice movies. What's the last film you've seen? I see. Okay. Now in these days, we have a lot of opportunities to see on on TV. I saw a movie called The Post regarding Washington post. The big scale. Yeah. Exactly. Then I saw a polo thirteen and all this stuff. And then, all the movie of, filmmaker, he's all surgery on it. It's my favorite. One support time in America and all this stuff. Who's your favorite actor? Director, let's say, okay, Tom Hanks. He's a good actor. Tom Hanks is good. Hanks. Exactly. And then, yeah, maybe I'll print eastwood of those different expressions. Yeah. And these are the two. You can can you do any Clint Eastwood expressions? Not really. We'll say there is only two expression with or without the hat. So I don't I I much more, you know, it's difficult to to find, comparison with this for the money. My face. Okay? Alright. Alright. Well, thank you so much, Mateo. Cheers to you and your family. See you next Monday for another virtual wine journey Italian wine podcast lockdown series.