Off-season notes
Your wine shows who you are
As a product, wine has a special ability to carry a greater sense of self-understanding and to tell a story about your personality.
Izack Stjernberg
Danish journalist riding to the roots of wine on a motorcycle through Europe's regions every season to tell the story about the people behind the wine.
Background
The Cultural Roots of Wine
Locally produced natural wine or transport-friendly wine? Wine's history has shaped our wine culture along both paths.
Off-season notes
Room for Everyone
Supermarket wine or auction rarities? Organic Piedmont winemaker Gabriele Baldi says wine always sparks deeper understanding. Relax, enjoy, and grow your senses naturally. The world of wine has room for everyone.
Off-season notes
The Art of Failing Forward
What’s the unspoken secret that separates ordinary winemakers from true pioneers who rewrite the impossible?
Archive Gem
The Freedom to Be a Brush
The Baldi family was an organic pioneer in Piedmont long before it was popular, and for 33-year-old Gabriele Baldi, life as an organic wine producer continues to be a journey toward high-quality wines in close symbiosis with nature.
Back story
The Road to Wine
It took a fusion of my childhood summer holidays in Italy and my professional life as a journalist to find my way into the world of wine and the raw, authentic stories of the people behind the wine.