Welcome to Episode 1494 in which Marc Millon interviews Marilena Leta of Gorghi Tondi in today’s episode of Wine, Food & Travel. The winery is awarded the Best Organic Semi-Sparkling WIne 2023 Trophy for Terre Siciliane Igp Bianco Frizzante Vino Biologico Babbìo N.V., in Wine Without Walls, a section of 5StarWines – the Book wine selection in 2023 More about today’s winery Gorghi Tondi would never have been born without the love for nature of Dora, our great-grandmother “- recall Annamaria and Clara Sala, today at the helm of the family business - “ A love for the grapes and for the land that, a century later, continues to nourish and to move us as well. It was in 2000 when their father, Michele, after a career of over forty years in the wine business, decided, together with his wife Doretta, to start a family owned company, together with his two daughters. And so the two sisters, coming back home from their careers, ended up surrounded by the family vineyards and wines, facing the new challenge to build a future able to bring back that old dream of making premium wines in Sicily. Connect: Instagram: www.instagram.com/gorghitondi/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/gorghitondi/ Website: www.gorghitondi.it/ More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers’ Companion Italy, The Food Lovers’ Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK’s leading cultural travel specialist. He is soon to begin a regular series on Italian Wine Podcast, ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England Connect: quaypress.uk/ marcmillon.co.uk vino.co.uk quaypress.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624 Twitter: @Marc_Millon _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodcast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin! Thanks for listening! - This show is all about food and wine pairings, and traveling through Italy with Marc. Join his food, wine and cultural journey!