Ep. 1559 Luca Avenanti | Slow Wine 2023

Since two thousand and seventeen, the Italian wine podcast has exploded. Recently hitting six million listens support us by buying a copy of Italian wine unplugged two point o or making a small donation. In return, we'll give you the chance to nominate a guest and even win lunch with Steve Kim and Professor Atilio Shenza. Find out more at Italian One podcast dot com. Welcome to this special series dedicated to slow wine held in bologna in March twenty twenty three. During the fair, we conducted several interviews with some very exciting producers. We were able to pull out some of the more interesting elements of Italian wine within the slow wine movement, tune in each week on Italian wine podcast. Hi. It's Cynthia Chaplin. I'm here at slow wine in Bologna today with Luca. From Terri Cruda in Marque, and Terryri Cruda has been selected as one of our benchmark producers for the new edition of Italian wine unplugged two point o. And the grape they were selected for was Aleotico, which is a very unusual interesting grape to talk about, an ancient grape in the area that can be made in a lot of styles, and it's usually known for being a sweet or semi sweet wine. But Terri Crude does wine that is the most important in there. Cantina is a dry red style. So I'm so happy to talk to Luca today. Tell me what you're doing with your Aliatico in my. See, Aliatico is a very special kind of grape. We are the Northeast part in Italy where we produce a laatica because a laatica, you have a very sensitive, skin, very light, and, it's sensitive, to the humidity. To the focus. So in the north part, it's very difficult to to grow. To hold to it. Yeah. So we are the north part where we grow Aliatico, and we are the only one, the only area. Where we can produce a lot in a dry red person. So tell me what else you're doing with Aliyah to go there because, people who know me from podcasts and other things know that I'm very interested in Italian Rosati. So I know that you're doing Rosanne. Yeah. Let's talk about that. We produce, with Aliatico, Roset version that is very fresh, young, and very aromatic because Aliatico have, this characteristic to be very floral, like roses, violet, or fruity like, strawberries. And, so it's very unique taste and the the young version that we produce is rosette. And then we produced in a younger leatica in a red version, but also in a red version, the color of a leatica is very light. Yes. I have a very light color. And then the third and the most, known of our production is alliatico aged in of Barrell. We was, the first in our area to do this kind of, unification. Wine to wine business forum. Everything you need to get ahead in the world of wine, supersize your business network, share business ideas with the biggest voices in the industry. Join us in Verona on November thirteen to fourteen twenty twenty three. Tickets available now at point blind dot net. Why did you decide to do that? Because, we wanted to introduce this very special grape in an international market. So to give uh-uh more body, but the body of the dialectical is not the most important character. No. It's the nose. So sometimes, have a great nose really complex, but the body sometimes is, too light, to compare with some other kind of grip. So we wanted to find a compromise between the body and the serum, and we decided to use some wood, but not, you would not too much because we don't want to cover the first characteristic of the wine. And so we just made this, aged in in Oka, just using, used the oak bubble. When you're when you're eating with your alley article. See. What food in market are you eating? So we are used to combine when we found with the the truffle because we are interesting. Yeah. Plant truffles or white truffles if he if that's white. Okay. Here's why he's making it happen to the season. So how long has the winery been working with Aliatico? How many years? It's twenty years old. Consider that thaliatic is a very old, the kind of reaping our area. It's very old in all Italy. But in our area, we can read about production of thaliatica more than one thousand years ago. But, the denomination was born in two thousand five, thanks to our winery because we gained five Hector of Alliatico and, together with the other little producer, we can ask, forever, the DOC because in our case, we are, we have all the Viner, but in the past, we are used to sold to the great. Oh, k. So now you're keeping your own. Twenty years ago, we decided with our family to build our own winery, and we focus in the native grape. And, unique one, Alatico is the first but we also grow. Very unique grapes. That's so nice. So I'm really glad to meet you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Listen to the Italian wine podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, email ifm, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italian wine podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time.