Ep 312: Filippo Bartolotta explains the Essential Nature of Vintage and Italy's Anteprima System

<p><a href="http://www.filippobartolotta.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Filippo Bartolotta</a> is a teacher, writer, and a wine storyteller. He has had a long career in wine writing for Decanter magazine, helping launch Vinopolis, the largest wine museum in the world, training journalists, experts, and trade on communication, sensory analysis, wine history and anthropology.</p> <p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/filippo-bartolotta-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="208" /></p> <p>Since 2010 he has held a Road Show entitled "The Amazing Italian Wine Journey" which each year, among other places, sees him in the White House kitchens and in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He has worked with celebrities and even hosted  Barack and Michelle Obama in Tuscany. Filippo and his wife have a cooking and wine school of cooking, <a href= "https://www.mamaflorence.com/en/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">MaMa Florence</a>, in Florence, and he runs and agency that provides <a href= "http://www.filippobartolotta.com/signature-travel/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">premium travel experiences throughout Italy.</a></p> <p>Filippo is an excellent communicator and our conversations are always full of ideas that sometimes explain and sometimes question conventional wisdom. Today he joins me to talk about the relatively new movement of Anteprima in Italy, which, as you’ll hear, is a purely Italian take on the famed en Primeur of Bordeaux (which we will also explain). </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/maxresdefault-3.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="141" /></p> <p>We discuss the systems of France and Italy, En Primeur and Anteprima respectively and discuss how each country's approach to futures and vintage somewhat mirrors their cultures, and their orientations. We touch on vintage, the importance of small producers in Italy, and offer some golden nuggets on how to t