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Pulling together

After visiting many wineries around the world over the past two decades, I’ve concluded that one of the greatest assetssees long-established, well-known wine estates across Italy give the floor to the names they have chosen as future greats in their region. ‘An encouragement to the new guard,’ observes the author of the piece, Tiziano Gaia. Local knowledge brings to our attention, among others, a brother and sister reinterpreting Bardolino, a Tuscan estate gaining a reputation for its Pinot Noir, and our cover star and winemaking talent Matteo Santoiemma from Puglian winery I Parieti. Scan the QR code in the story to hear Tiziano talk about his article.

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