Ep. 2295 Giulia Stocchetti interviews Skinny Pablo | Next Generation

You know, Skinny Pablo wasn't always my name too. I had a name before that who was, in my opinion, more little more infamous, especially in Los Angeles. So the name Skinny Pablo was given to me by members of the rap group Cypress Hill. You know? There's Wow. What an honor. I'm so jealous. What is because I love Cypress Hill. Oh, gosh. Cypress Hill. Yeah. So, you know, when I was working with b real and all that, somebody just said I think the series Narcos was really big at the time and I had a mustache. And someone's like, yeah. You look like a mustache. And they're like, you look like a skinny Pablo. And we all just stopped. It was like, skinny Pablo? That's a cool name. Someone's like, yeah. You should you should use that as a name. And I'm like, I like good ideas. So let me see that and see what happens. And then I started using that name, and now I'm, in Italy on a podcast. So I think it was a good choice. Welcome to the next generation. With me, your host, Giulia Stokchetti. Join me as I take you on a journey to discover young stars of the Italian food and wine world. Hello. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of the next generation on the Italian wine Podcast. Today is going to be a really kind of special edition because I can say I'm here with an artist with the super huge capital a. I'm here with Skinny Pablo, who is a musician, who is a wine enthusiast, who is a fashion designer, who basically lives for art and really nice things I can say. Welcome, Skinny. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you for having me, Julia, and the Italian Wine Podcast. What is up? Thank you so much to you because you've traveled quite a lot to come over here, and it took some time off from your activity of making art and being creative. So how was your trip to Verona? The trip was wonderful. I've been on trains for maybe twenty hours. I don't really know, but it's been about a whole day of travel. And it's not taking time away from my creativity because on the road, you know, I'm writing. All my experiences just, living and the experience of life that's art form in itself, how you handle things and especially when you're on the road by yourself. So it's a pleasure to travel out this way, and it's my first time in Italy. So I'm very happy to be here. Oh, wow. First time. Yeah. I just I had some pasta before coming over here at, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but it was recommended to me by a winemaker. I guess it was La Grepia. La Grepia. Yeah. You texted me something like, yeah. You were having lunch there and I was like, wow. He knows where to go to enjoy good food and good wines in Verona. That was, exceptional. Like I said, I've never been to Italy before. I've been so excited to try the food. So that was a good entry into Italian food. It's beautiful. So you had pasta. Right? It was the house pasta or three pastas. They give you three Three small courses. Yeah. Just like a tasting menu, let's say, of pasta. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Pasta tasting menu, it was beautiful. Every bite was wonderful. And the salad there was exceptional. I haven't had salad so fresh, you know, in my life, I think. So it was it was beautiful. That's what people say when they come to Italy. They're all so amazed and impressed because the food is so fresh. It's grown in the area, we can say. So, yeah, I'm so happy you enjoyed. And you have some wine too? Or just I did have some wine. I think I I wrote down what I had, actually. Some so I'm unfamiliar so much with Italian wines. You know, I just they've come across in dinner parties, but I just had no idea what I was looking at. You know? I'm a Mozart Riesling enthusiast, connoisseur of sorts. But when it comes to Italian wine, I'm like a baby. You know? I don't know what what I'm doing, so it's it's exciting to learn. And let's see. It's like part of the creative process, like Yeah. When you discover something new and you just dig deeper in. Yeah. It's like finding a new band or a new genre of music or anything, in that So first of all, was white, was red, or was sparkling? It was a white wine. Uh-huh. From the area? Or It's from it's from the area. I So much for it. Or Lugana or Gustoza. Mhmm. I think that's yeah. Verdecchio, the Jesse Classico's Periori. Oh, okay. Verdecchio di Castelli diasi. Oh, wow. It's one of my favorite Italian wines, Verdecchio. And that's from Le Marche. That's a small region in Central Italy. Okay. So, yeah, you had definitely something Italian and it's one of the most historic white wines we have. So did you enjoy? That's the most important thing. Oh, yes. Yes. I enjoyed it. It was a beautiful moment in my life, and I enjoy all the moments. But yeah. Italian wine, I'm learning about it just here and there, and it's been great. It's wonderful to think about it. Yeah. We don't have something like Riesling from Mosa, but we have, like, a kaleidoscope of other flavors. So I'm sure you're gonna find something interesting. And hopefully, maybe one day, you're gonna also make something creative out of your Italian experience, like Italian wine and food and people experience. Oh oh, yeah. The you know, it's it inspires the music and, yeah, the wine aspect. I'm excited to dive more into it because there's certain things in Italian wine that we have none of that in Germany, or I wouldn't say none of that. But out here, just some of the wines I've tried, they've been blends. So I'm unfamiliar with blends. They're like a chef in the barrel. When they go into the barrel, they'll be blending four different grape varietals, and it achieves a balance from that intervention of mixing. Whereas in the Molso, it's usually just Riesling and whatever the weather gives us. So it'd be like high acid, this and, you know, low acid, whatever sweetness, but they don't do blends, you know. So it's pretty cool. So what wines do you recommend as and let's say I'm someone I don't wanna have to spend my whole life tasting through all these Italian wines. What are the ones that you say are essential? I think there are no essentials, but there are maybe some benchmark wines that made Italy famous throughout the world. And historically, these are like the Chianti red wines, the Suave white wines, Super Tuscans starting from the seventies, still from Tuscany. But you know what? I love wines from all over the Peninsula because literally, there's unique terroir everywhere. And so I think all Italian wines are worth to be tried. Then, of course, you have your personal preferences, but, you know, it's kinda like music in depending on how you feel, what you feel like, you go for something. And I guess wine and music sometimes are quite similar because you're constantly, like, exploring, discovering something new, and just tasting something new. And then you realize what you like or what you really loved in a moment of your life. Maybe later, like, did I really used to drink that wine? It's like, did I really used to listen to that music? And the answer is yes. Because you were building your own experience and understanding who you were to become who you are. So I think wine and music are quite close. And I got a question for you. Yeah. You started making music first or tasting wines? Definitely music. I didn't start tasting wine until maybe 2019, 2019. Oh. So I'm pretty I'm fairly new to it. And I was introduced from my mentor in wine slash good friend, soil pimp, AKA Robert Denti. So you can find him online. He's pretty much the, number one Riesling he's the Riesling guru. In the Riesling community, he's, like, their guy. I guess, when people should know him, definitely. Yeah. Soil pimp. So, I mean, the way I really got involved was that he put me on to Molso wine. He said, what do you think about this wine? And this comes back from I was, you know, we were talking off air about my history in podcasting. And so for seven years, I was working on this podcast. This network called BeReal TV where, you know, we're smoking tons of weed