The Producers Table
This is a series built around the growers, families, and estates behind the bottles. Each edition features a producer Ian Mendelsohn knows personally, has visited, or has worked alongside across a twenty-five year career in wine and spirits. These are not names on a label or bottles on a shelf. They are friends and colleagues earned through harvests, meals, and decades of shared work. What follows is not a tasting room experience. It is access built on trust.
Avignonesi
Twenty years of enjoying Vino Nobile and a day at Avignonesi, the largest certified biodynamic estate in Italy. Avignonesi was founded in Montepulciano in 1974. Virginie Saverys bought it in 2009 and converted 175 hectares to organic and then biodynamic farming, the largest such estate in Italy. Her daughter Eline's Ventisei comes off the same ground.