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Like a friend of the house, Aldo is seated on an armchair of the so crowded InterContinental Wine Expo 2011 and he begins to talk. Everything looks rare to him, obviously! It is like interviewing a brother and he restates it: “Ave is to me like a project of a brother; the thing is that Iacopo (one of Ave´s engines) is like a brother to me. Wines represent the person who makes them, and this wine speaks for him.”

The goal of the article is to talk about the impressions that this winery generates in people and the fluid relationship that Aldo keeps with Ave in general. The best thing to do will be to start for the beginning: “When I worked in Casa Cruz, one day I saw two crazy Italians (Iacopo Di Bugno and Mario Pardini, creators of the project) who began to taste wines, and wines and wines. We begun to talk, and without knowing it we established a bond. In that way, we created a cool circle that later took me know their wines”, the media sommelier expresses.

Ave! The passion of this meaningful greeting can be seen reflected in our wines, in which the tradition of the Tuscany and the modernity of the New World merge in a perfect unison. Ave is our main project in Argentina; in it, Italian style and flavor are incorporated with those of Argentina. All our tradition is summarized in a glass of wine:” The good thing about this, it that is not nonsense” Graziani laughs. “This is true because you can see it in the glass. They are wines with a lot of personality, they are different from the rest, they are not the classics ones of Argentina.”

Now, the best part! While Aldo swings his glass around, we asked him: “What are you drinking? A fast and precise answer: “Memento, I´m a fan”. And like that he begins to talk: “You can perfectly say that it is an European wine. It has that thing from the Old World, it has an animal pinch, it´s very complex. Moreover, it´s not related with fruits or concentration. I believe it´s elegant.”

In general, how does Aldo Graziani see us? “I think all wines are placed in a top quality strip, they have volume and they are very concentrated. In Buenos Aires, wine lover people know the brand. It´s an interesting phenomenon that grew a lot in a very short time.”

Aldo´s profile

Sommelier graduated from the Argentine School of Sommeliers. He was the manager and sommelier of Gran Bar Danzón and Casa de Cruz Restaurante. Currently, he is Head Sommelier of Faena Hotel and Universe. He was a teacher in Ott College, IAG, CAVE and EAS. He is co-author, together with Marcelo Pellereti, of the Wine Guide Faena – The best 100 Argentine wines of 2007 (Guía de vinos Faena-Los mejores 100 Vinos Argentinos 2007). He periodically writes in the magazine Cuisine & Vines. He was a wine taster of the first edition in the Southern guide Spectator and jury in the wine tasting contests: Cata D’Or 2006 and Iber Wine 2007, in Madrid, Spain. He is the host of Marcha y Sale, his own radio show about gastronomy and wines.