Giovanni Stella never thought he’d become a winemaker. “I wanted to go fishing!” he admits, arms waving like a conductor of an orchestra. Giovanni started working in the wine trade at the age of 15, at an age when Italian children must choose the school of their future profession.
“At the time, I had no idea what I wanted to do,” he explained, “so I chose the school that had the longest study, which was winemaking, only to give me time to think about what I want to do with my life!”
Coincidently, Giovanni’s father knew someone who owned a winery, and Giovanni went along to work for him for the reason that there was a pond in the middle of the vineyards where he could go fishing. But noticing how passionate the winemaker was in the production process, and the care he took to ensure the quality of his wine, Giovanni took the chance
