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Food and beverage industry insiders Melanie Young and David Ransom connect you to leaders and legends in wine, spirits, food and hospitality as they travel the world. Hear from vintners, restaurateurs, chefs, distillers, educators, authors, farmers and more. Melanie and David are the insatiably curious culinary couple who are always in search of a great story to share with their listeners. They bring a fresh approach to spotlighting industry movers and shakers and exploring the pleasures of the palate. Connect and visit www.theconnectedtable.com Instagram@theconnectedtable Like on Facebook@connectedtable The Connected Table is among Feedspot’s top 20 food and beverage podcasts https://podcast.feedspot.com/food_and_beverage_podcasts/ The Connected Table is broadcast live Wednesdays at 2PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Connected Table Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-connected-table-live--1277037/support.
Episodes
July 30, 2025 • 48 mins
Kenneth Dunn transitioned from working on food insecurity issues with the United Nations to creating premium food experiences for culinary curious travelers through Eating Europe, the company he founded in 2011. What started as a single experience in Rome quickly expanded to Florence and beyond. Eating Europe now offers food tours in 20 cities and has welcomed over 450,000 guests and earned more than 10,000 five-star reviews. www.e...
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July 23, 2025 • 51 mins
Gaetana Jacono is the 6th generation family member overseeing Valle Dell’Acate, a wine estate in southern Sicily's Ragusa province. Valle Dell'Acate produces organic wines made from local varieties including Frappato di Vittorio DOC and Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, Nero D'Avola, Grillo and Vermentino. Valle Dell'Acate offers tours, wine and food tastings and cooking classes. Gaetana highlights Frappato, a refreshing light-bodied red...
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July 16, 2025 • 46 mins
Sicily is ablaze with a new generation of dynamic winemakers who aspire to respect the biodiversity in a region and produce wines that uniquely express their local terroir. An example is Arianna Occhipinti who started her namesake winery at age 22 in 2004 in Fossa di Lupo (Vittoria). She calls it "a magical place." Occhipinti has become a leading voice for biodiversity and a top producer of biodynamic wines in Italy. She describes ...
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July 9, 2025 • 50 mins
Charlotte Voisey has helped redefine how spirits brands connect with the hospitality industry, notably as longtime global brand ambassador for William Grant & Sons. In 2025, Voisey stepped into a new role as Executive Director for the nonprofit Tales of the Cocktail Foundation, where she oversees strategic planning and initiatives to support the evolution of the industry. Voisey shares how her own career has evolved from her ro...
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July 2, 2025 • 52 mins
Located in Umbria near Lazio, Orvieto has a history in winemaking dating to the Etruscans. In the 13th century Orvieto was a refuge for five Popes and the wines were favored among the papal court. Sales of Orvieto wines partially financed the building of the Orvieto Cathedral. Orvieto DOC, est. 1971, produces blended white wines, mainly Grechetto and Procanico (Trebbiano Toscana). Orvietano Rosso DOC, est. 1998, produces blended re...
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June 25, 2025 • 50 mins
Greco di Tufo is an iconic Italian white wine produced in Campania with an historic provenance. Scipione di Marzo first brought cuttings of local Greco vines from his hometown of Nola to replant in Tufo in 1647. Cantine di Marzo was officially registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Avellino as a Farm in 1833, making it the oldest winery in Campania and among the oldest in Southern Italy. Ferrante di Somma, 16th generation famil...
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June 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Il Colombaio di Santa Chiara is a family-run winery with a luxury inn and restaurant called La Locanda di Logi located near San Gimignano, a town known for its 14 medieval towers. Patriarch Mario Logi acquired the former 11th century monastery and surrounding land in 1983 to plant vines. Here you can taste Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Tuscany’s only DOCG white wine, as well as Tuscan IGT reds from Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc and Merl...
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June 11, 2025 • 39 mins
In Lombardia, Italy, Villa Franciacorta produces estate grown vintage Franciacorta DOCG sparkling wines and is home to Villa Gradoni Charme & Nature, a renovated 16th century farmhouse and agriturismo. Villa Franciacorta’s evolution is thanks to Alessandro Bianchi, who in 1960 acquired land in the area and made a commitment to restore and renew the region with a focus on the production of sparkling wines. Alessandro’s daughter,...
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June 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Growing up on the island of St. Lucia, Nina Compton loved to cook with her grandmother. Her path to becoming a celebrated chef and owner of Compère Lapin in New Orleans took her to Jamaica, New York and Miami. Becoming a finalist on BRAVO’s Top Chef New Orleans brought national exposure, many fans and drew her to New Orleans. She opened Compère Lapin in 2015. Compton shares her story in her autobiographic cookbook, "Kwéyòl / Creole...
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May 28, 2025 • 50 mins
Sicily has been making wine for centuries, historically for local consumption or for selling to other wine regions in bulk to enhance their wines. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, “modern” Sicilian wine production evolved, creating terroir-driven wines with elegance and finesse that the world has embraced. The Connected Table Hosts Melanie Young and David Ransom discuss the wines of Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, Vittoria DO...
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May 21, 2025 • 49 mins
Founded in 1731, Bouchard Père & Fils is one of the oldest and most diverse wine estates in Burgundy with 130 hectares of vineyards in prestige appellations of both the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuit, mostly Premiers and Grands Crus. Its 15th century château in Beaune houses the largest private collection of old burgundies, including a Meursault Charmes 1846. Technical Director Frédéric Weber discusses its history and six Prem...
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May 14, 2025 • 23 mins
The Kautz family settled in California in 1926 from Germany to farm, eventually expanding into grape growing in the Lodi and Sierra Foothills appellations. Their Ironstone Vineyards located in Calaveras County is considered “the Queen of the Sierras” for its volcanic soils, optimum growing conditions and many grape varieties cultivated from Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay to Cabernet Franc and Zinfandel. The family is recognized for...
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May 7, 2025 • 50 mins
Acclaimed photographer, Silvia Imparato, enjoyed drinking fine wines with friends in Rome. But she returned to her family’s country home near Salerno to make wines herself, enlisting the help of acclaimed wine consultant, Ricardo Cotarella. In 1991 Silvia introduced her first vintage of Montevetrano to rave reviews. Accolades continued with each new vintage. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Aglianico, Montevetrano has been...
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April 30, 2025 • 46 mins
How does a culinary legend celebrate turning 90 years young? Jacques Pépin, daughter, Claudine Pépin and son-in-law, Dr. Rollie Wesen, executive director of the Jacques Pépin Foundation, discuss family, cooking together, the Foundation's mission and 90/90 birthday celebration featuring 90 fundraising dinners around the USA hosted by chefs. Funds raised support community-based kitchens offering culinary training to underserved adult...
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April 23, 2025 • 49 mins
Founded in 1925, Pasqua Vigneto E Cantine celebrates a century of winemaking expertise. The family-run Veronese wine company is led by its second and third generation, Umberto Pasqua, and his sons, Riccardo Pasqua, CEO, and Alessandro Pasqua, President of Pasqua USA. Its new “Pasqua House of the Unconventional” manifesto underscores the company’s commitment to quality and innovation as well as its support for the creative arts Ales...
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April 16, 2025 • 46 mins
Maestà della Formica (Majesty of the Ant) is named for a mountain pass in the Apuan Alpes near the winery which is an hour and a half from Lucca in the northwest corner of Tuscany. Founded in 2013 by Andrea Elmi and Marco Raffaelli, Maestà della Formica has 3.2 ha. of biodynamically farmed vineyards. Small parcels of grapes- international and indigenous- are mixed together to create unique field blends, a distinguishing feature of ...
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April 9, 2025 • 22 mins
Located in Carmignano near Florence, Tenuta di Capezzana has produced wine and olive oil since 804 A.D. Its villa, a wedding gift to a Medici daughter, is surrounded by olive groves, cyprus trees and rows of vineyards. Since the 1920s, Tenuta di Capezzana has been under the ownership of the Contini Bonacossi family, renowned art dealers from Spain who settled in Italy. Beatrice Contini Bonacossi discusses how her father, Count Ugo ...
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April 2, 2025 • 51 mins
Mary Taylor worked in different areas of the wine industry before establishing her import company, Mary Taylor Wines. She sources wines from classic European regions that deliver authenticity and a sense of place for wine-curious consumers who seek accessibly priced bottles. Mary Taylor’s White Label wines spotlight a wine’s geographical origin, typicity and vigneron on the bottle. Hers is a success story in a challenging and chang...
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March 26, 2025 • 50 mins
The Moretti Cuseri family achieved success producing luxury goods in Italy. Hand-crafted luxury is also their approach to making wines at their five wine estates in Tuscany and Sicily. Export director and third generation, Alberto Moretti Cuseri, discusses each estate and wines starting with flagship Sette Ponti in Valdarno di Sopra DOC near Arezzo, which his grandfather acquired in 1951 and where his father, Antonio, planted inter...
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March 19, 2025 • 44 mins
Poderi Boscarelli (meaning “little forest”) is in Tuscany’s picturesque winemaking area of Montepulciano. In 1962 Egidio Corradi, a Genovese businessman, purchased the farms to grow grapes and make family wines. His daughter, Paola de Ferrari Corradi expanded and established the winery with her late husband. Paola’s sons, Luca and Nicolò now work with her. Boscarelli produces acclaimed Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG red wines. A...
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