Ep. 1857 Christmas Throwback with Violante Gardini Cinelli Colombini | On The Road With Stevie Kim

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And instead of Bolicina, we are going to be focusing on sweet Pacito wine. Of course Pacito wines It's a very, very small production, not just in Italy. I believe worldwide. There's special wine. Right? It's sweet. It's not everyday wine kind of thing. But for the festivities, I think we think it's perfect and manuela from the office. She decided that this is should be our focus, and that's exactly what it is. So we've invited seven woman producers. I hope she's coming on. So let's try again. Let's try from the beginning. So my name is Stevie Kim, and welcome to this Insta Live series dedicated to Pazita wines. Today is the very last episode. I was expecting to see Donatella, but We have Yolanda, the next generation. Yeah. Very well. How are you? It's a big pleasure to be with you today and I'm sure we will have fun with pacito sweet wine. And how is the motherhood treating you? How old is your it's a boy. Right? How old is your son now? One year old. He's just one. Okay. How is that working out? Working and being a mom? He's super fun. He he's at school at nursery now. So he's the pleasure of the life. So we are And, of course, donatella, your mom is now a nonna. How is she as a nonna? Hi. It's different. Of course. She was waiting for a a woman. Of course, he's a boy. No one is perfect. Listen, Yolante. So before we go into your wine, the passito, the passito we're going to be talking about, of course, is passito right? So before we do, we get into the passito, tell us a little bit about the winery. Yes. So the the name of the winery is the name of my mom. It's composed of two wineries, one in Montalcino, Casato primadone, where we produce, Rosa, and Bruno, and the other one where we produce. The casino is where we have an agreement with, you know, and there we produce, water wines, AT and T superiore, and some IGT wines. The little strange, different, team of our winery is that we are only women in our team. Right. So many women, how many? Any kind of what you consider in the winery, we are, eight. Okay. So it's quite a big team, and it's the same team that is working in both, the wineries. It's not a discrimination message when my mom started in nineteen ninety eight. She decided to, do something different, and it was an opportunity because she was looking for an analogist. I sell a master, but when she called the school in Cianna, it was impossible to find a man. So she tried again asking for a woman. And the answer was, are you ready for that woman? We manage your wineries. They are the best of the class, but nobody wants to employ women. So it was nineteen ninety eight. So not many years ago. And, we decided to, build the the first winery. We're the only with mainly in our team because you need to be intelligent and to believe in what you are doing. That doesn't matter if you are strong or not. You you need to be a person. So what is your role exactly, Yolante, at the winery? I'm taking care of, export. And, of course, especially now, we are trying to do everything together with my mom. So I I try to be, very close and listen everything that is happening around me because My mom is a little bit different, if you compare her with many owners of wineries. She could be ready to live everything to me in every moment. So I need to to run. If you're lucky, let's talk about the few minutes we have left about the wine. Let's get into the pancita. We are red wine producers. So considering, with the Ulta wines. So we decided it was my my father to decide to produce something very small, try to consider that they've entered that, I'm presenting today's two thousand and eighteen and we decided to produce only three hundred sixty four bottles. Oh, geez. But is that a half bottle? Oh, geez. So very tiny production. Are you enjoying this podcast? Don't forget to visit our YouTube channel, mama jumbo shrimp. For fascinating videos covering Stevie Kim and her travels across Italy and beyond. Meeting winemakers, eating local foods, and taking in the scenery. Now, back to the show. Very small. The, the grape is, tramiiner, and, not too much for that area. That is super unusual, but the the vineyard is six zero four meters up the sea level. It's a very small vineyard behind the small chapel that we have at Fattoria, they call it. It's the first selection that we do. So before the production of the, white wine. We select by hand. We produce everything by hand. So we select the bunches, the best bunches for our pastille. We use, some baskets, for the dry process, we put the baskets, to enjoy the sun. And every day, we move the position of the baskets to give the opportunity to the graves to use the ventilation and enjoy the sun. And I I like to tell you that when, we see that the rain is coming. Usually, my father run. Close to the to the winery, to take all the baskets and to put everything inside the winery. And this is something that we do every night to preserve, the the bunches from the humidity. And after the the process is with the stainless steel, but what is a nice result for the packaging? Because we have a box, but not only that. My mom studied art medieval art, so also the label is different, and suicide to consider this model as, a piece of art. So when you buy something, we did very high value. You receive a certification, and we did the same. So so every bottle has a number. And on the identification, there is the the story in English and in Italian, and we write the, the date, in which the bottle leave our winery, our name, and an example, we give you a, the bottle. So there is our name, your name, but you decide to lift this bottle. So you need to write the name of the person, your friend, that will receive the the bottle. And this is the process. So it's something a little bit different. Yes. A lot of care goes into this, like, small production of passita, a lot of care But are these ones actually available for sale? I mean, you only have three hundred models. The production is super small, so that we have it in our shop, online shop, and we have selected a few clients that are, enjoying our case one. So what we like to do here with this series is, of course, also the wine pairing. So with the passipto, what would you recommend in terms of food pairing. The idea is, a new way to drink, so especially with cheese, a cheese or blue cheese when we presented this wine, we selected with Andrea Mahdi. And who is that. Andrea Mahdi is, so he's an expert about, his I can say that he's the best of our territory considering the high quality, he's, so we decided to, to do the perfect match with our passitio. And if you consider the prisoners, you have more time, So, of course, you can, use a dessert as Pamporte. That is the more traditional, sweet, wine from Sienna. But I think that it could be a good idea considering that the Christmas meal is super long to add some cheese. Okay. So listen, before we go, yesterday, my last guests were Katerina day and Jose, and they both sang how you did. And they were singing. So would you like to sing as well? I'm not able to. Are you sure? You can you can dig for you. Sequino Dara. Okay. Would you like to share, like, I don't know, a nostalgic Christmas story with us? Yes. Yes. I can tell you that. But just a story. Okay. I'll thank you. What is very nice is that, I told you that we are only women in our team. So my father likes very much this wine. And every time that, we have friends at home, especially for the holidays, he wants to end the meal away, the enchant. And my mom is not super happy because she She preferred to go on with a red wine. So, at the end, all the friends are giving many compliments to my father, and he he likes to to say See, my the sweet wines are super good. So you don't know. And, this is something that we like very much, of our family that and we have a wine for, for everyone. We want to be very, close. And, this is, what Christmas is offering to be with the family and to enjoy a wine considering the story that is behind it. Listen, I just want to send my greetings to your family, especially to your mom and your father. I know It has been a very challenging year for for your family. So, the best performing for a much, much healthier year for your family for two thousand twenty four. Okay? Thank you very much. Okay. I hope that you will come to visit us very soon. Yeah. Absolutely. Two thousand twenty four on my agenda. Okay? Thank you. Okay. A big hug to you and your family. Thank you for joining us on another installment of On The Road Edition, hosted by Stevie Kim. Join her again next week for more interesting content in the Italian wine scene. You can also find us at Italian wine podcast dot com or wherever you get your pods. 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