A journalist’s journey through wine and culture
Photo 1/ who I am. Journalist, graduate in Classics with honours, teacher in a high school in Rome. Calabrese DOC I have been on stage since I was a child, dedicating more than five-year-periods to the theatre, (to the point of) writing, scriptwriting and performing my own plays. I love cooking and have the title of Chef.
I am a Master of Wine and teach sommelier courses. I like to know what I am talking about, so I visit wineries in Italy and abroad, even overseas. I write about food and wine, with sparkling interviews with famous personalities from the world of culture and entertainment, who talk about their relationship with the nectar of Bacchus. I have been a member of Rotary for ten years and have travelled extensively, taking part in charity projects and cultural internships in European countries, Africa, Canada and the United States.
With my easy-going personality, I have participated in episodes of television programmes. Sensitive and attracted by the psychology of characters, I wrote and published ‘Mister Gullotta, Leo My Huge Pumpkin’, which is a biography, a travelogue, a diary, and I am about to finish a second book about women. Photo 2/ journalist. Italy’s leading journalist and writer Bruno Vespa produces wines in Puglia, a region of three grapes brought by three peoples.
Photo 3/ sommelier. Tasting Amarone, a wine loved by Hannibal Lecter in The Origins of Evil, with the good, unmistakable triad: intense, fragrant, seductive. Photo 4/ presenter. With three qualities: sensitive, cultured, ironic. We offer an online course to learn about wine and invite you to participate.
Why? Because you will learn to taste not only wines but also stories of vines, populations, men and women, in a lively and sparkling way … because you will go on an imaginary journey through the five senses, capable of travelling through remote eras, from Marco Polo’s Venice to the Rome of the She-Wolf and as far as the Palermo of Via Maqueda, through grapes and wines that lead to our days … because you will approach life, drinking, business and love differently. There will of course be three talks: wine and ancient Greece; wines, Rome and the Romans; The great Italian wines of today.
