Our first At Home Session exploring Italy will feature Mannie Berk of The Rare Wine Co, a leading importer of Barolo including Giacomo Conterno and Bartolo Mascarello among others, as well as many more of Europe's most revered producers.
We'll also touch on Mannie's other interests including Madeira and Northern Rhône.
After an earlier career in government in Chicago and Boston, and a few years writing and teaching about wine, Mannie Berk couldn’t resist the call of a vast quantity of old Madeira he found in London in 1987. Two years later he founded The Rare Wine Co. Since that time, he has made RWC America’s finest non-auction source for older wines, including Madeira, of which he is considered the country’s leading authority.
In 2011, he edited and co-authored the second edition of Noel Cossart’s Madeira, The Island Vineyard, which the International Cookbook Awards named the best book on European wines published in the United States that year. In 2002, he was named Food & Wine’s Best Wine Importer, and he is a three-time James Beard Award semi-finalist and two-time Wine Advocate Wine Personality of the Year.
Participants will receive the Zoom link in the confirmation email.
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