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16/09/2026

What happens when a Master Sommelier helps with the blend?
Winebow’s Head of Education, Master Sommelier Ron Edwards, has been helping the Flora Lisa team fine-tune the blend for Flora Lisa Pinot Grigio, made from organically grown grapes.

They have had the benefit of Ron’s palate, experience and perspective throughout the process, and now they are taking Flora Lisa to New York.

They’ll be pouring at Booth I7 in the Winebow Pavilion during Vinitaly.USA.

Stop by Booth I7 to taste Flora Lisa and meet the team.

Italian Wine People at Vinitaly.USA 2026 New York

14/09/2026

Kids come and go.

Marina’s been with us for 10 years today.

Grateful. That is all 🙏🏾

11/09/2026

Photo dump Buenos Aires & São Paulo in 4 days with Old Friends (very) and New Wine Friends.

06/09/2026

On the Road to Vinitaly.USA: Austin 🇺🇸

One of the things we wanted to understand while travelling through Texas was not simply who sells wine, but who builds the wine community around it.

In Austin, we caught up with Mandi Nelson, President and Co-Founder of ATX Somms, a community of like-minded wine and hospitality professionals with education very much at its core.

ATX Somms creates opportunities for the local trade to taste, learn, exchange knowledge and, perhaps most importantly, support one another. That community also has some muscle behind it, with fundraising helping wine and hospitality professionals access educational opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach.

For us, that’s an important part of understanding a market like Austin. You can count cases sold and restaurant placements, but those numbers don’t necessarily tell you who is educating the people selling the wine, where the next generation of sommeliers is learning, or how a wine community sustains itself.

And if we’re serious about bringing more Italian wine education to Texas, these are exactly the people we need to be talking to.
Another stop On the Road to Vinitaly.USA 2026.

04/09/2026

My Portuguese is nonexistent, but luckily four VIA Italian Wine Ambassadors are coming to save the day in São Paulo. 🇧🇷

DECIFRANDO O VINHO ITALIANO: 8 Vinhos, 4 Italian Wine Ambassadors

Uma jornada por uvas autóctones, terroirs icônicos, tradição e reinvenção.

Guiding us through the tasting:

Lupa Santiago IWA
Julyana Fiorin IWA
Bernardo Pinto IWA
Mário Lescano IWA

Eight wines, four flights, plenty of blind tasting, and one goal: not simply to guess the wines, but to connect what is in the glass back to grape, place, tradition and territory.

I’ll be there to moderate. They’ll be there to make sure everyone actually understands what I’m trying to say…

São Paulo, here we come. Yep that’s just following Vinitaly previous stop🛑 in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷

Follow Vinitaly International Academy Vinitaly Official Vinitaly USA Italian Trade Agency Veronafiere for more ✌🏾

03/09/2026

Next 🛑 for Vinitaly?

Italian wine lands in📍 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 y’all ✌🏾

A crash course in Spanish 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe NOT.

More coming 🔜 via Vinitaly Official Veronafiere ITA Buenos Aires Italian Trade Agency Vinitaly International Academy

03/09/2026

Then this happened. What is going on here with this 🐻?

01/09/2026

What happens in a wine market where money is rarely the issue?

On the Road to Vinitaly.USA 2026, we caught up with Krista Church, co-owner and General Manager of Neighborhood Vintner in Westlake, one of the most affluent areas of Austin and arguably one of the wealthiest pockets of Texas.

Krista gave us a fascinating snapshot of her clientele and the wines that command their attention. Burgundy and Champagne remain at the top, while Piedmont clearly leads the Italian category. Sicily, however, is starting to gain meaningful traction.

For Italian producers, it is an interesting window into a consumer who is less constrained by price and more driven by quality, reputation, discovery and confidence in what is in the glass.

A small but revealing glimpse into the highend Austin wine market as we continue the Road to Vinitaly.USA 2026.

31/08/2026

What have you been up to lately⁉️

Me:

More from TEXSOM coming 🔜 via Italian Wine Podcast 🇮🇹🍷🎧 y’all 🤠

29/08/2026

What is Texas drinking right now? We’ve asked Steven McDonald MS.

Steven is Executive Wine Director for Pappas Bros. Steakhouses in Houston and Dallas, overseeing three Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning wine programs.

And that sits within the much bigger world of Pappas Restaurants, one of the largest family owned restaurant groups in the US, with 80+ restaurants across eight states and a portfolio that includes Pappadeaux, Pappasito’s and Pappas Bros.

So Steven has a pretty unique view of the market: serious collectors, luxury hospitality, classic fine wine and changing consumer tastes across two of Texas’s most important cities.
In this quick unfiltered clip, he gives us his read on Texas right now and where Italian wine fits into the conversation.

Another voice from the people actually buying, pouring and moving wine on the Road to Vinitaly.USA, New York, October 26–27.

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