If the sommelier is the ambassador of wine, the node of contact between the product and the final client (professional or consumer), the winemaker is the spearhead of the wine sector. The oenologist does not review wine, he does not write about wine. The oenologist makes wine and he is the one who has the potential success of a company in his hands. Giacomo Tachis wrote the international history of this profession and it is from him that generations of oenologists have been inspired and continue to do so. Thus, it was for Umberto Trombelli, an internationally renowned oenologist, called by Giacomo Tachis, in 2009 when Tachis left the business of Winemaker for health reasons. Trombelli replaced the master for the “Cantina Santadi” in Sardinia and for the “Agripunica” winery, with the Barrua and Montessu wines, officially becoming the official winemaker for the two Sardinian wineries. After graduating from the Oenological School of Alba (Piedmont), in 1984, Trombelli began some collaborations with small Tuscan wineries, thus coming into contact with teams of oenologists led by Giacomo Tachis, whom Trombelli defines as the father of the “Renaissance of Italian wine” . At that time, Giacomo Tachis was about to retire from his thirty-year collaboration with the Antinori winery and Umberto had the opportunity to be introduced to Massimo Bernetti, owner of the Umani Ronchi winery in the Marche region, where Tachis was starting a wine consultancy collaboration. . Thus Umberto begins his experience together with Tachis, developing the famous “Pelago” wine. In 2003, Umberto moved to Tuscany at the “Fattoria La Vialla”, in Arezzo, a leading company in organic and, later biodynamic, cultivation, specializing shortly after in the production of Chianti, Vin Santo, Spumanti and Supertuscans wines. At the same time, having achieved considerable experience and knowledge in winemaking under the supervision of Tachis, Umberto begins his activity as a consultant oenologist. Talent and passion, Trombelli becomes the curator of some Italian businessmen: aristocrats, such as Brachetti Peretti and his winery “Il Pollenza”; Diego Della Valle, Entrepreneur-stylist owner of the “Tod’s” label who appoints him to his estate “Tenuta l’Entrata” in Incisa Valdarno “, as well as Baron Ciani Bassetti who asks Umberto to work for his cellar in Roncade, in Veneto region. Today, Umberto is a Consultant throughout the Italian territory carrying out an oenological coordination and business management service in the wine sector.
© Enologo Umberto Trombelli
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