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Today’s podcast episode is an interview with Marco Castelanelli, a professional Sommelier and CEO of Club Vino UK, organising exclusive wine-tasting events that share knowledge whilst creating an overall experience.
Currently adapting to lockdown, Club Vino offers home wine-tasting, with packages including 6-12 wines, printable tasting notes, and an online video in which Marco guides you through the wine-tasting experience:
Wine-tasting at home: https://club-vino.co.uk/home-wine-tasting/
Alice and Marco discuss how businesses are adapting to lockdown, the differences in Italian and English drinking and business culture and how creating an experience is an essential part of Club Vino.
Also discussed:
(1:30) Introduction: alcohol in lockdown, drinking in lockdown, the influx in popularity of alcohol
(6:56) The experience of wine-tasting as opposed to ‘drinking for the sake of drinking’, knowing the story behind the bottle and creating an experience, the cultural difference in drinking behaviour
(10:54) Marco’s impression of English drinking culture, the wine industry in the UK
(14:10) Alcohol as a coping mechanism, the habits behind drinking
(19:52) Adapting to working from home and adapting a business to the lockdown situation, finding routine and trying to stay productive
(25:00) ‘Going back to normal’, how things may change in the future, self-awareness and how relationships may change due to spending extended amounts of with specific people, new possibilities
(33:11) Avoiding ‘bullshit positivity’, cultural differences in behaviour around mental health and communicating honestly, the benefit of honesty and authenticity, vulnerability and awareness in business
(41:13) Bringing ‘Italian flare’ to the wine tasting experience, the social aspect alongside interesting facts throughout the wine-tasting
(48:48) The difficulties of delivering a personal service under lockdown, making the most of the situation, how Italy is affected by coronavirus and the lack of physical interaction
(54:34) The cultural opinion of mental health in Italy at present, how the hospitality industry will/has been impacted
(1:00:03) Final comments and Alice’s solo drunken motivational speech
Club Vino: https://club-vino.co.uk/
Marco’s LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/marco-castelanelli-%F0%9F%8D%B7-club-vino-0b029b58
Club Vino’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClubVinoMCR/
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