Grape Collective talks to Ludovica Lisini about her experience working with her family to continue the legacy of Lisini winery.
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September 27, 2024
In the wine world, a family is considered lucky to have their legacy carried on by descendants, generation after generation, to realize the vision their founding ancestors had for the land they occupy. Other times, uncontrollable events happen, and a family would lose their pride and joy.
While the journey that eventually brought Monica Raspi into wine was not as dramatic, the crossroad she arrived at almost 17 years ago had some similarities. Trained as a veterinarian, she never thought she would take over her family’s vineyard, Pomona, in Castellina in Chianti Classico. Her parents had, through nostalgia and hard work, finally revived parts of the estate after it was abandoned for over 30 years. But their family was once again at risk of losing Pomona if Monica hadn’t decided to take over from her mother in 2007.
Fortunately, Monica did.
The transition was hard and sometimes caused her to doubt herself. But with the guidance of those she worked with, Monica gradually learnt to appreciate the beauty of her work in the vineyard as she transitioned it to become organic, and the satisfaction of producing wines she felt best represented what Pomona’s soils offered.
Grape Collective talks to Monica Raspi about her journey of taking over her family’s legacy and her winemaking approach.
Dear love, I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me, and how there aren’t enough words to express this. But I am a flawed human. I may not always be on time with the flowers, helping out with the chores, keeping places tidy and neat, or quick to understand what you need most when you’re busy.
Despite all that, there is one thing I am good at: picking out the wine for our evening.
Because wine is, after all, my love language.
October 12, 2019To help me explain why, I asked for help from my friend, Walter Speller. Walter is the Italian Wine Specialist at the Jancis Robinson publication and has great command over Italian wine knowledge, yet he describes his insights with playful banter and intimacy.
April 04, 2019Calabria is not the “famous” Italian wine region that might come to mind. Sit back, have a glass of Calabrian wine and think again.
Monty Waldin talks to Kalyna Monnoyer of Casa Raia about making organic, low intervention Brunello di Montalcino.
"The late ‘80s and the '90s was a fashionable period for oaky wines. Everyone was looking for more structure and more color, because the market wanted those qualities. We tried to maintain our tradition." Nicolò De Ferrari in conversation with Monty Waldin
March 16, 2018An interview with rising star winemaker Francesco Bordini of Villa Papiano in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Chianti is probably the most recognizable Italian wine varietal in the States. Even as a college student, well before I learned anything about wine, I knew enough to correct a misguided friend who asked for “kee-yan-tee.”
