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My husband makes wine, I drink and write about it. Based in the Veneto, in northern Italy. Grow most of my own vegetables. Hope it's sunnier over here.
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All the recipes - like this one for caponata - are in dialect with a translation in Italian!
Can't wait to get stuck in and see if I get inspired to try something. #foodsky #sicily #caponata
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Two of my MIL's egg-based pizzas.
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Ah no, they're in a runny raw egg state when it goes in the oven.
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My Italian MIL makes a pizza topped with scrambled eggs and leeks as it goes into the oven, and then fresh goats cheese once it's out. Is that a pizza?
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And funnily enough, I ran into one of my heroes at the fair!
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Merry Christmas to you too! 🎅
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@katebevan.com I'd try Enostore Volontè: www.enostorelissone.it
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I continue to have problems with Morro d'Alba being in the Marche. #italians... 😜
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Hi there and welcome! I use the different channels at the top. Honestly I'm quite glad not to see all the clutter that there is on Threads from people I have never heard of before. You can set up a channel per topic and therefore, whilst it's not one universal feed, you get diversified coverage.
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In 2018, they replied to one of our questionnaires saying they did not have an importer in the UK.
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If they don't answer you by mail, let me send a message to Jutta and Mimmo. (They're part of the VinNatur family. 😉 )
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Alongside a good bottling line 🤣🤣
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That must be dishearteningly depressing.
My Italian husband is so surprised to see Moretti and Peretti so pervasively in the UK. "Why do they buy Italian beers?" he asks.
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Hahaha!
To be fair, I like the fact that Bella Storia wines are organic and any movement towards more sustainable wine production is to be welcomed. Also like that Collis bought Villa Favorita (went to auction 3 times) and are restoring it. Co-ops have a place and a raison d'être.
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It is rather ambiguous, because it started with a family winery in the 60s but I would argue that since 1999, it's grown out of any "family" proportion.
Could make the comparison with Rocca Sveva; they make the best wines of the group but who ultimately is making the big decisions? The co-op.
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Very observant! Dishoom Edinburgh.
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Exactly, they meet a need; both in terms of farmers with vines who would never succeed in bottling and commercialising their own products, and for creating distribution networks that go far further than a family-sized winery.
Some work well too. The trade ought to be telling those stories.
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I know! Think how many more wines they can enjoy. 🤣
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What part in particular? I've watched the first 10 mins but don't see any reference to purchasing and pricing in the UK.
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Not really the case in the UK where you have importers bringing in everything from the bulk to the very finest. 🤷🏽♀️
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I'll have a kouign amann, please! 😋
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Unfortunately, in the case of my small town, the big wine conglomerate (with 7 production facilities all over Italy, original site here, also making Kylie's prosecco rosé) is the one which still has an appetite for buying grapes. The local (small) co-op is struggling.
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But in the case of Collis, with 6000 suppliers, the % of grapes coming from original-family-owned vineyards is going to be diluted to a pittance.
I guess it annoys me most how the "Italian family" idyllic is rolled out again and again.
(And yes, I did marry into an Italian winemaking family! 🤣)
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As a wine trade, we kept on being told to tell stories to reel in our customers, but aren't they going to wake up one day and see that it's a web of (at best) exaggerations and (at worse) lies.
Why can't the somm or the wine-list be honest?
"Drink this, it's a bit sweet and it's cheap."
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"The result of this expertise and organization is around 100 million litres of wine..."
"60% is bottled and sold on international markets by companies in the Group, including Cantine Riondo, and the two subsidiaries Cielo e Terra and Casa Vinicola Sartori."
www.collisgroup.it/en/on-the-ma...