Welcome to episode 2004 of the Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he is interviewing Riccardo Brighigna of Cantina Tollo The winery is awarded the Best Rosé Wine 2024 Trophy for Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo DOP Deìvaì 2022, in 5StarWines – the Book wine selection in 2024 More about today’s guest: Winemaking consultant with degree in viticulture and enology, WSET advanced certified and currently in the stage two of the Master of Wine study program.  Twice awarded winemaker of the year of the Abruzzo Region.  Awarded as meritorious of Italian enology and viticulture at Vinitaly 2013 by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. He follows Cantina Tollo as supervisor of the oenological department since 2003 where he has developed most of the super-premium lines. Connect: Website: www.cantinatollo.it  Instagram: @cantina.tollo  Facebook: @cantinatollo LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/company/cantina-tollo  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 Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/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!