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What is Lambrusco? Discover it all over again with Venturini Baldini

What is Lambrusco? Discover it all over again with Venturini Baldini

Lambrusco was never meant to be the sugary, low-quality wine that we see getting warm under the lights of a corner shop. It was always meant to be dry and crisp, made from low-yield grapes. Venturini Baldini have been making this premium style of Lambrusco since the 1970s. High in the hills of Emilia, their grape yields are a quarter of those from vineyards in the flat lands below and they use organic and minimal intervention techniques to produce low sulphite, low antihistamine, authentic Emilian wines.

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Wednesday Wine Women: @drink.folc</a>

Wednesday Wine Women: @drink.folc

Elisha co-founded folc in 2020 with her partner Tom, with the ambition to create a high quality English rosé with a modern mindset. She knew that their customers wanted transparency, sustainability and inclusiveness at the heart of the wine they are buying and that's exactly how folc produces their English wine.

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Wednesday Wine Women: @kvltwines

Wednesday Wine Women: @kvltwines

With my partner Matt, a digital creative with a thirst for natural wine, we built a brand around no-nonsense education, inclusivity and environmental concerns - as well as our love of all things metal and macabre. We are hoping to grow our offering of workshops and classes soon.

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Wednesday Wine Women: @jesslambwrites

Wednesday Wine Women: @jesslambwrites

Jess spends four days a week working for a London fine wine broker and uses the rest of her time to study for the WSET Diploma. Still only having been in wine for a relatively short time, Jess is excited about what the future may hold - she’s hoping for lots more opportunities to indulge her twin passions for writing and learning.

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Wednesday Wine Women: Miria from @cecchi_winery

Wednesday Wine Women: Miria from @cecchi_winery

After a period as a volunteer in the environmental sector, Miria Bracali followed her instinct and embraced her innate passion for wine. Miria graduated in Chemistry and began her career in wine, starting work at one of the most authoritative companies on the Italian wine scene: Casa Vinicola Cecchi @cecchi_winery. There, she took on roles with increasing responsibility and now she is the Winery Technical Director and Production Manager.⁣

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Wednesday Wine Women: Marlize Beyers from @brucejackwines

Wednesday Wine Women: Marlize Beyers from @brucejackwines

Marlize is a South African winemaker who lives in Ontario. She splits her time between making wines for @brucejackwines and @thedriftestate in South Africa, consulting in California, Chile and Spain with her wine consulting company, Resolute Wine Works, which she operates with Bruce Jack, and living in Ontario!⁣

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Wednesday Wine Women: @elizabethrosewines

Wednesday Wine Women: @elizabethrosewines

Elizabeth Rose started off as a website, designed to share their passion for English and Welsh wines and to encourage wine lovers to visit the vineyards, meet the families and taste the wine just as they had done. During their journey of discovery, they found difficult to order the wines they wanted at a reasonable price, especially as they weren’t all in one place. They’d identified the problem and they had the solution – to sell the wines themselves!⁣

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Wednesday Wine Women: @juanicultura

Wednesday Wine Women: @juanicultura

Yearning to develop her connection with wine, Juanita started working in the food industry, initially as a Pastry Chef. In this role, she focused on creating recipes, whilst discovering new tastes and learning how to balance flavours. Juanita found this to be fulfilling work, but it was elevated to a whole new level when she started learning about how to pair dishes with wine. ⁣

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Women Supporting Women in the Wine World
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Women Supporting Women in the Wine World

Sometime at the end of July 2020, black and white photos of women flooded social media platforms with the hashtags #WomenSupportingWomen and #ChallengeAccepted. Many of those twinkling, smiling faces (or moody ones, depending on the desired vibe), flattered by the monochrome tones, were unaware that the black and white ‘women supporting women’ photo challenge was originally launched to spread awareness of the alarmingly growing femicide rate in Turkey, an issue which erupted during the pandemic-induced lockdown of the country.

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KWV - South Africa’s Proud Pioneers
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KWV - South Africa’s Proud Pioneers

The first wines from South Africa were made 360 years ago from the French Muscadelle grape and in the centuries that followed, the country experienced a rollercoaster of success and failure. First came fame all over Europe in the late 1600s, then over production followed, then politician isolation, and – finally – a commitment to high quality winemaking and global embrace. KWV have been with the industry for over 100 years now and were initially formed to defend and protect farmers. In 1928, the developer of the Pinotage grape, Professor Abraham Izak Perold, joined KWV and became responsible for the experimentation of new cultivars and improving quality control.

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