Italian Wine Podcast

Episode 571 Rebecca Lawrence interviews Jahde MarleyAbout Jahde:Jahde Marley is a Sommelier, Bartender, and self-proclaimed Flavor Junkie. Through education and community events, she celebrates the cultures that contribute joy and complexity to this lived experience through Wine, Spirits, and Spice. Jahde is actively working to disrupt the beverage industry from a space of love. She collaborates with Industry Sessions, is a co-founder of 'The Ideal Bartender Collective' and serves as co-chair of The Hue Society NY JJL Chapter. She is currently a Relationship Manager with KNiT Wine, a collaborative distribution platform of regionally focused importers, including the Italian books of Hootannany and The Maritime Republic.If you want to know more about Jahde visit her at:Website: jahdemarley.comInstagram: @jahdemarley.drinksLinkedin: linkedin.com/jahdemarleyLet's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Episode 569 Steve Raye interviews Alder YarrowAbout Alder:Alder has spent the last 25 years creating customer experiences for some of the world’s top brands. He is trusted by visionary executives to help rethink or create entirely new brand experiences and products that disrupt existing industries or create entirely new markets. When celebrity businessman George Zimmer wanted to create his new online company Generation Tux, he asked Alder and his team to design the entire brand experience.Alder began his career as an information architect, interaction designer, and UX designer even as those terms were being defined in the industry. As the Web progressed from simple home pages to e-commerce transactions, so did Alder rapidly progress from designer to executive leader in TUX design. Along the way, he designed Williams-Sonoma's first online wedding registry and the first end-to-end online car purchase experience for Autonation. At Sapient he helped define the company’s global user experience design process and opened the company’s Tokyo office with a team of fellow executives. In 2005 Alder founded HYDRANT, a customer experience and product design firm.Alder has led mission-critical brand and experience design engagements for brands including Google, Twitter, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Gymboree, Cisco, HP, Motorola, Fidelity, Anki, Blurb, Starwood, Subaru, and Tesla Motors, often serving as an outsourced product design leader.Most recently Alder served as the Chief Experience Officer at Cibo, a brand and customer experience agency (acquired by Projekt202) dedicated to creating winning brands and products by applying design thinking to business. As CXO, Alder managed the company's UX and Strategy offerings. In that capacity, he developed the company’s unique Brand Experience Strategy approach and provided thought leadership on brand, customer experience, and UX by writing and speaking.San Francisco Magazine has called Alder “The Wine World’s Brightest Cyberstar” and he is widely accepted as a pioneer of wine blogging. His Vinography.Com blog has been published daily since 2004 and was nominated for a James Beard award in 2013.Since November of 2011 Alder has been a columnist for Jancis Robinson. He is also the author of “The Essence of Wine,” a unique coffee table book about wine’s flavors and aromas named one of the best wine books of 2014 by The New York Times.In 2013, Alder was inducted to the Wine Media Guild of New York’s Wine Writers Hall of Fame, an honor he shares with only 24 other living wine writers.To find out more about Alder you can always visit his website :www.vinography.com/Instagram @vinographywww.pix.wine/For more information on Steve Raye you can check out Bevology inc here www.bevologyinc.com/Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Giro D'Italia 2021 Between Wine And Food By Marc Millon - Stages 4, 5, 6 & 7Welcome to this special edition where we talk wines and the Giro D’Italia. We held an exceptional ClubHouse Room dedicated to Giro d’Italia but…it was not recorded. I know, I know, Bummer. But anyway, we thought about sharing some notes about the first stage of the Giro - written and read by Marc Millon - a food, wine, and travel writer, and the author of numerous books as well as magazine articles published on both sides of the Atlantic. Since these bikers will also go through Verona, the city of Vinitaly, there will be more special episodes to come. Stay tuned!Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Giro D'Italia 2021 Between Wine And Food By Marc Millon - Stages 8, 9 & 10Welcome to this special edition where we talk wines and the Giro D’Italia. We held an exceptional ClubHouse Room dedicated to Giro d’Italia but…it was not recorded. I know, I know, Bummer. But anyway, we thought about sharing some notes about the first stage of the Giro - written and read by Marc Millon - a food, wine, and travel writer, and the author of numerous books as well as magazine articles published on both sides of the Atlantic. Since these bikers will also go through Verona, the city of Vinitaly, there will be more special episodes to come. Stay tuned!Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

This is a special Saturday Clubhouse edition entitled: Natural Wines: The Good, The Bad And The UglyStevie Kim talks to Andrea Lonardi, Gabriele Gorelli MW and Pietro Russo about Natural Wines. Natural Wines are a category of wines often classified as wines made with minimal intervention - but there is so much more to say about these wines! Join us!Remember "Wine business" and "Italian wine Clubhouse" happens every Wednesday and Thursday at 8pm UCT+ feel free to join in!Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Italian Wine Podcast Episode 567 | Will Blackmon, the “NFL Wine Guy”Juliana Colangelo of Colangelo & Partners sits down in conversation with Will Blackmon, the “NFL Wine Guy”Will Blackmon played 12 seasons in the NFL. He played for the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, (with whom he won Super Bowl 46), he also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and finished his career with the Washington Redskins.Will’s passion is wine. Due to his strong desire to learn more about wine, he went on to complete his level 2 and level 3 certifications, through the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, also known as the WSET. He also passed his Intro exam through the Court of Master’s Sommelier. Will is now coined as the “NFL Wine Guy”. He launched a VIP Wine Concierge business called, The WINE MVP as a way to educate, make wine more approachable as well as empower those looking to learn more about wine. All of this presented with the idea in mind that when it comes to fine wine, everyone can be an “MVP’.In 2020 Will was named one of Wine Enthusiasts “Top 40 Under 40 Tastemakers” in the United States. He has also been featured in USA Today, Wine Spectator, & Vine Pair to name a few.You can find out more about Will Blackmon by visiting:Website: Thewinemvp.comInstagram: @ThewinemvpInstagram: @willblackmonLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/will-blackmon-a032291a9Check out our sponsor for this series Colangelo & Partners colangelopr.com/Thank you Juliana for hosting this series!Follow Juliana Colangelo through any of these channels:Instagram: www.instagram.com/julezcolang/Facebook: www.facebook.com/jules.colangelo/Twitter: twitter.com/JulezColangLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/juliana-colan…lo-mba-04345539/Instagram: www.instagram.com/colangelopr/Facebook: www.facebook.com/ColangeloPRTwitter: twitter.com/ColangeloPRLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/colangel…public-relationsLet's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Episode 566: Rebecca Lawrence has a chat with the amazing Dame Tonya PittsAn industry changemaker and compassionate role model, Tonya Pitts is known globally as a multi-talented wine professional who catapults wineries, winemakers and brands into the mainstream. Equally important, she is a leader who champions diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, food and beverage industries. Tonya has been a judge for the San Francisco International Wine Competition for five years in a row, a speaker at Culinary Institute of America Summit for Beverage Professionals, a tasting panelist for Wine & Spirits Magazine and an advisor for the Fine Minds4Fine Wines think tank in Europe. In 2017, she was named to the Top 40 African American Tastemakers (Under/Over) 40 list. Of special note, Tonya has been instrumental in the annual Wine Spectator list for more than a decade, including receiving awards for her expansive and inclusive wine program.Tonya has been featured in numerous news and industry publications, including CBS This Morning , ABC 7 News “Sips with Spencer,” Cherry Bombe, Daily Beast, Grape Collective, Janis Robinson, Wine & Spirits Magazine, Somm Journal, Tasting Panel, Where Traveler, Wine Searcher, Wine Stream and Wonder Women of Wine.Get in touch with Tonya!www.tonyapitts.com/aboutwww.instagram.com/noirsommelier/?hl=enLet's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/

Episode 565 Monty Waldin interviews Carlo Cignozzi of Il Paradiso di FrassinaCignozzi created the Paradiso di Frassina, in the heart of the Brunello wine area in Montalcino, and wanted to experiment (for the first time in the world) using the beneficial effects of music on vines.“Honestly, I would say that success was not lacking and a committee of the United Nations considered this research as one of the most sustainable projects in the world, calling it "phono organic" and including it in the "Bright Green Book" presented in Rio de Janeiro in June 2011.”He was a Lawyer for almost 40 years in Milan, in 2011, he wrote a book published by Rizzoli "The Vine Whisperer”- L’uomo che sussurra alle Vigne, where Cignozzi tells the story of how he began this magnificent vine music therapy project, imitating the research done centuries ago in the Far East.You can find out more about this fantastic winery by visiting:www.alparadisodifrassina.it/Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!

Welcome to this special edition where we talk wines and the Giro D’Italia. We held an exceptional ClubHouse Room dedicated to Giro d’Italia but…it was not recorded. I know, I know, Bummer. But anyway, we thought about sharing some notes about the first stage of the Giro - written and read by Marc Millon - a food, wine, and travel writer, and the author of numerous books as well as magazine articles published on both sides of the Atlantic. Since these bikers will also go through Verona, the city of Vinitaly, there will be more special episodes to come. Stay tuned!

Episode 564 Steve Raye interviews Paul Mabray CEO of PixPaul Mabray has been a powerful change agent in the wine industry for over twenty years. He began his career working in traditional three-tier sales and marketing with Napa Ale Works and later innovated direct-to-consumer sales and marketing models with Niebaum Coppola.Since then, he has been at the forefront of all major digital trends for the wine industry, including working with WineShopper.com and Wine.com when they entered the wine-digital space. He founded two companies that have significantly changed the US wine landscape for digital, first by introducing winery e-commerce with Inertia Beverage Group that transformed into WineDirect.com pioneering winery e-commerce, and then again by introducing social media and social customer relationship management with VinTank.com.He is considered the wine industry’s foremost futurist and thought leader, able to harness the power and potential of digital tools and methodologies to move the industry into the future.If you want to find out more about Paul Mabray you can check out his social media and website!Twitter: @pmabray – twitter.com/pmabrayFacebook: @pmabray – www.facebook.com/pmabrayLinkedIn: @pmabray – www.linkedin.com/in/pmabray/Website: pix.wineEmail: paul@pix.wineFor more information on Steve Raye you can check out Bevology inc here www.bevologyinc.com/Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels:Instagram @italianwinepodcastFacebook @ItalianWinePodcastTwitter @itawinepodastTiktok @MammaJumboShrimpLinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcastIf you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/Until next time, Cin Cin!