Welcome to episode 2022 of the Italian Wine Podcast, Wine, Food & Travel With Marc Millon. Today, he is interviewing Annette Mueller of Fattoria La Vialla di Gianni, Antonio e Bandino Lo Franco The winery is awarded the Best Winery Wine Without Walls Best Organic Sparkling Wine 2024 Trophy for Oltrepò Pavese Metodo Classico Docg Extra Brut Millesimato Vino Biologico Cuvée n° 2 2016, and Best Biodynamic Sweet Wine 2024 Trophy for Vin Santo Del Chianti Doc Occhio Di Pernice Riserva Vino Biologico 2015 in Wine Without Walls, a section of 5StarWines – the Book wine selection in 2024 More about today’s winery: „Metti bòn, cava bòn!“ ( Put good in, get good out)  Since 1978, the Lo Franco family has lived by this motto at Fattoria La Vialla, their organic-biodynamic farm in Tuscany... and this commitment has been rewarded! For the family-run, independent and almost self-sufficient farm, the early years were difficult; it was often ignored or “snubbed” by tasting panels, but now, more than 46 years later, the Lo Franco Family has been named “Wine Family of the Year” at the Meininger Award 2023 – Excellence in Wine & Spirit. In addition, in 2023, Fattoria La Vialla was named “Best Organic Winery - International” for the 9th time at the Mundus Vini Biofach, “Winery of the Year” for the 5th time at Wine Without Walls - Vinitaly , and “Best Producer Organic - Italy” for the 12th time at the Berlin Wine Trophy. That all this is no coincidence is also shown by the numerous other accolades received in recent years, thanks to the untiring commitment of La Vialla’s over 150 employees who work in the vineyards, olive groves, fields,kitchen-workshop, bakery, dairy and hospitality structure. Fattoria La Vialla is a totally eco-sustainable, “climate positive” farm and wine estate. In 2020 the Fattoria was promoted from “Carbon Neutral” to “Climate Positive” by Nature Office. In 2022 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) chose Fattoria La Vialla as one of the #GenerationRestoration actors for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Programme aims to create a global movement to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems, in which sustainable and regenerative agriculture plays a key role. On November 23rd 2023 Fattoria La Vialla won the German Sustainability Award 2024 as an outstanding model of sustainability in agriculture. The award is conferred annually by the Foundation of the same name and the German government. Connect: Website: www.lavialla.com  Instagram: @fattorialavialla  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fattorialavialla/  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