Ep. 2201 Giulia Stocchetti interviews Mattia Castagnedi of Tenuta Sant'Antonio | The Next Generation

Welcome to the next generation. With me, your host, Julia Stochetti. Join me as I take you on a journey to discover young stars of the Italian food and wine world. Broni and Yamu. Hello. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to a new episode of the next generation on the Italian way in podcast. Today's episode is quite special because I have to just tell you that the interview is gonna be in Italian, but at the end of the interview, there will be a brief recap in English of the episode, so you're not gonna miss anything, maybe just refresh your Italian or maybe it's your chance to get more familiar with Italian and learn this beautiful language. Today's guest is actually a young man from, both sides of Verona, I would say, from the red side and from the white side, because we are talking about Matia Castanedi from Tenuta, Sant Antonio. He is the son of the founder, Paulo Castanedi. And he inherited this passion about wines from him, actually, from the father. So he is also third generation of winemakers. And, actually, he works for the Taylos brand, a brand within Tenuta, San Antonio. Along with Massimo, who's the agronomist responsible for the organic part of the brand. So let's welcome Matia. Fantastic. The story. Okay. The point. Okay. Fantastic brand. Next generation. Okay. Okay. The patient. Okay. You know, That's So, basically, Matia, thanks you all for being with us today. And now I'm gonna make a brief recap of the interesting things he was saying because I could talk about this, like, four hours, but I know time is running out. So First of all, he's only, like, twenty four years old, and he inherited this great passion about wines from his father because, basically, Tanuta Santano is a family run business. And they're all castaneda people, let's say, and Matia is Taulo's son, but he works, like, in the vineyards, along with Massimo, who's responsible for the brand, Telos. And Telos is basically the organic branch of the Nuta San Antonio. Because including the San Antonio, we have the Tanuta Santantonia brand that reflects the tradition and basically all the historic side of the business. Well, then we have telos, that is the organic part. And then we have Kaya. And Kaya is the one that is more, like, for the new younger generations of wine consumers with five different labels of white wines, red wines, and also a rose wine, reflecting this modern taste that is requiring freshness, lighter wines with less alcohol levels and more enjoyability. Specifically, Skyya, white Skyya pairs really well with fish, and that's the wine that Matia recommends you on Christmas. So on Christmas, make sure to have a bottle of sky. Yeah. Well, it's also easy to find because according to Matia, you can, of course, go to visit them at tenuta, Santania, of course, make an appointment first. But you can also, like, order the wines online. So wherever you are, you can just open the website. You find all the info, like, in the caption of the episode. You open up the website. You choose whatever you want, and you can get it at your house. So, literally, you click and you get the wines. You can find the wines throughout Italy in the main cities, of course, and also in the whole world because they export basically all around the world and the main markets are, like, the Northern Europe countries. But according to Matias words, something that is coming up is, like, the expansion of their sales and of the market because new people, new generations are taking over, and so they're also making some new projects. The most beautiful thing is that they're focusing on sustainability because they wanna be sustainable both in the vineyards but also, like, in the winery because it's really, really important for them to respect the environment and, especially, enhance the biodiversity. Because Matilla specifically is in charge of the vineyards according to him, of course, and we totally agree with that, the quality comes from the fruit. So if you have quality fruit in the vineyards, then you can make, you can deliver a standing wines and genuine wines, wines that are enjoyable, and that makes you happy when you share with other people, and wines that actually reflect the third one. That's something really important for them because basically they represent the East part of Balpolicella in the West part of soave. So basically, they have the whole wine sold of verona in wine because we have in verona red wines from Balicella and white wines from soave, and they do both. They represent both. So the white side and the dark side of verona are in the San Antonio, where you can have a bunch of different wines reflecting the terroir, but also pleasing the modern consumer stays. Just for a quick recap about the vineyards, they own, like, one hundred and fifty hectares in total of vineyards, and they make, like, two point five million bottles per year. According to Matia, he prefers to take care of Balpolichala vineyards in terms of, like, indigenous grapes because they only grow indigenous grapes in Balpolichala and also in the soave areas. Yeah. It's kinda more fun according to him. Talking about last harvest, so, like, the twenty twenty four, we can backed pretty interesting wines because it wasn't an easy vintage, but Matia being an agronomist and also like an analogist. He knows how to deal with the weather. Like, he talks to the nature. I'm just kidding. But, yeah, I mean, he was really taking care of the whole thing. And so he said that the vintage was pretty difficult because last year, spring was pretty, pretty raining. And then there were these crazy changes of temperatures like when they were super hot, the other day was super cold. So it wasn't really easy to cope with the weather this year, but, except for that, it's gonna be a really, really interesting vintage, the twenty twenty four, because According to Martia, it was just a matter of seeing what was happening and just make the right decisions. And so every single day, they were taking out the vineyards so we can expect outstanding wines. Well, they focus on sustainability. They focus on respecting the nature on enhancing the terrar, and especially with Telos, they're focused on Oregon wines. I guess I told you everything, but if you're even more curious and you wanna know more, feel free to contact Matilla at Tanuta Santano, and he will be definitely happy to tell you everything you wanna know, and, of course, to let you familiar with Tanuta Santano wines. Even if he doesn't speak English, he has this, you know, linear on soul, so you're gonna understand each other for sure. Well, let's say it's almost also new year's and because we are in Verona, because I'm here with Matia, what I would recommend you to have on the table just because Matia told me, so give me this advice. It's just to get a bottle of their Van Pollica La superior La Bandina. That's it, guys. That's a wrap. I thank you so much for being with us today. Happy New Year, and I'll see you in January with some new juicy episodes of the next generation on the Italian win podcast. Chinchin, Gracie, for being with me today and listening to the next generation on the Italian win podcast. A la prosima, Chinchin,