Ep. 974 Noell Dorsey Interviews Mario Zanusso | Clubhouse Ambassador's Corner

Welcome to Episode 974 Stevie Kim moderates Clubhouse’s Ambassadors Corner – In this episode Noell Dorsey interviews Mario Zanusso. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and replayed here on the Italian Wine Podcast!

Listen in on this series as Italian Wine Ambassadors all over the world chat with Stevie and their chosen wine producer. Which producer would you interview if you had your pick?

About about today’s guest host: Noell Dorsey

Italian Wine Ambassador VIA Verona 2022

Noell Dorsey is a wine professional who has worked in the wine and hospitality industry for twenty years. She was part of the opening team at Island Creek Oyster Bar working in various roles before taking over as Wine Director in 2015. She has worked in Nantucket as a sommelier at Afterhouse Wine Bar and helped curate the new beverage program at acclaimed Moona Restaurant in Cambridge, MA.

She is currently Cellar Manager at Bonham Skinner Auctions. She also is a Wine Educator at Commonwealth Wine School teaching various course levels as well as private tastings. She is a certified sommelier and holds a Level 4 certificate from Boston University’s Elizabeth Bishop Wine School. She recently participated in the Gita Scolastica program led by VIA in Sardinia and is a recent VinItaly Italian Wine Ambassador 2022.

If you want to learn more about today’s guest host, you can by visiting:

Instagram @ndorser

Twitter @noell

LinkedIn Noell Dorsey

About today’s guest producer: Mario Zannuso

My name is Mario Zanusso, and in 1995 together with my father Ferdinando we started producing natural wines under the name "i Clivi" from 12 hectares of the very best vinegrowing land in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, situated in Brazzano di Cormons, in the Collio D.O.C. district, and Corno di Rosazzo, in the Colli Orientali D.O.C. district. All are very old vineyards on steep hillside slopes (in fact "i Clivi” means “slopes”).

My background education is Economics, so I had no specific formation as an enologist, neither did my dad. We learned by studying, by traveling, by exchanging experiences with other producers and mostly by doing.

My dad passed in 2020 so today I’m by myself, and overall production is now around 100,000 bottles a year, mostly white wine.

Since the beginning our recipe for quality has been very simple: (1) very old vines - at least 60 years of age, but many are 80 or over - for natural concentration, complexity and elegance as well as marked individuality and strong character; (2) certified organic cultivation in the vineyard and "spontaneous" vinification - i. e. no chemicals, no inoculations nor machines - in the cellar for absolute integrity; and (3) maturing for several months in stainless steel and cement vats before these slow-developing, long-lasting but "light" wines were offered for sale.

If you want to learn more about today’s guest producer, you can by visiting:

Facebook - i Clivi

Instagram @icliviwine

Website www.iclivi.wine/en/history/

More about the moderator Stevie Kim:

Stevie hosts Clubhouse sessions each week (visit Italian Wine Club & Wine Business on Clubhouse), these recorded sessions are then released on the podcast to immortalize them! She often also joins Professor Scienza in his shows to lend a hand keeping our Professor in check! You can also find her taking a hit for the team when she goes “On the Road”, all over the Italian countryside, visiting wineries and interviewing producers, enjoying their best food and wine – all in the name of bringing us great Pods!

To find out more about Stevie Kim visit:

Facebook: @steviekim222

Instagram: @steviekim222

Website: vinitalyinternational.com/wordpress/

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