Women Winemakers
Interviews from Maremma
Maremma's vineyards and wineries are home to many women winemakers. Women who have inherited the leadership of long-established Tuscan family vineyards and are taking them into the 21st century with new perspectives, to newly professionally trained enologists and viticulturists stating out on their careers. And then there are those who have built estates from scratch with determination, passion and a dream...
Find out about the challenges they face, their successes and more from their interviews with the Maremma Guide.
Women, it is widely believed, were the first to make wine. In Maremma they still do...
The Interviews with Maremma's
Women Winemakers
Justine Keeling - Poggio Argentiera
An exclusive interview with Justine Keeling, an English woman making wine in Morellino di Scansano territory in Maremma, Tuscany with her husband Gianpaolo Paglia. Together they have planted the vines and built the winery that is Poggio Argentiera... |
Elisabetta Geppetti - Fattoria Le Pupille
One of the founding members and first chairperson of the Consortium of Morellino di Scansano, and the first woman to receive the award of 'Winemaker of the Year' from the German magazine Der Feinschmecker and Wein Gourmet, Elisabetta Geppetti has been making wine in Maremma since she was a young woman... |
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Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste, and Enjoy Wine is a collection of candid interviews with 21 women in the wine business - including award-winning winemakers - covering tales of success as well as woe, adversity and discrimination from women passionate about wine.
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Women of Wine: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry is an insiders look at the wine industry today through interviews with leading female winemakers, estate owners, professors, sommeliers and wine writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. |
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