Dr. Cristian Maddalena, the export director for Schiopetto, has come straight from the airport and trans-Atlantic flight that included an unscheduled overnight stop in Frankfurt to the office of his employer’s Ontario agent, Le Sommelier in Liberty Village. And yet, only a minute after we re introduce he begins to speak passionately and with a broad smile about Schiopetto’s key role in the revolution in Italian wine production since the Second World War, that saw bulk growers become estate winemakers. I captured our conversation in the video below.


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Malcolm Jolley is a founding editor of Good Food Revolution and Executive Director of Good Food Media, the non-profit organization that publishes GFR. twitter.com/malcolmjolley. Photo: John Gundy.