“You must learn that everything grown wild, everything grown naturally is your friend. Biodiversity is your friend. It helps you to keep the balance of life and achieve better quality. Better quality is not only better taste, it’s a vineyard being full of life” – Silvano Brescianini
Silvano Brescianini started work in restaurants as a sommelier, then ran some of the biggest Michelin star restaurants in Italy and New York working with superstars such as Ezio Santin and Tony May. He was then invited to help run the restaurant at the old Barone Pizzini.
Unfortunately, a serious accident soon befell his good friend who was also the wine maker at Barone Pizzini. With no one else to take over, Silvano stepped up. Without any formal training but armed with lessons learnt from helping his grandfather as a child in his vineyard, Silvano took what he knew and grew it. Barone Pizzini became the first certified organic producer of Franciacorta wine. Today, Silvano lives a 360 degree lifestyle where he lives, breathes and acts what he says.
In this episode we dive deep into organic wine, bio diversity, Italy’s biggest secret sparkling wine; the Franciacorta wines and many more. This is a experimental episode where I have taken an almost hour long conversation and divided it into 2 parts. It was intense and and an immense learning experience for me and I feel the content is best digested this way.
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