Girovino!! | The Wines of the 2026 Giro
5/4/202636 min
Every year, as the Giro d'Italia approaches, we ease into our coverage with an episode that has — ostensibly — nothing to do with racing bikes. Any listeners with a passing interest in wine, stay with us. Everyone else, there are plenty of other episodes in our build-up to the Grande Partenza that will be more up your strada.
The Cycling Podcast has been on the ground at every Giro since 2016, and the lesson we keep relearning is that these races can't really be separated from the places that host them. The culture, the land, the things it grows and...
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[instrumental music] By now, you know the drill. For the last six years, we've prefaced our Giro d'Italia with one podcast that, alas, doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with what we will see on the race route over the next three weeks. That's right, if you have no interest in wine, please switch off now and save your ears for the various other much more obviously Giro related shows that we've prepared for a packed few days leading up to the Grande Partenza. Those of you who stick around will know that this is the space where every year we whimsically indulge one of our passions, and in truth, there is a link to cycling, and especially the Grand Tours. For what are the great three-week races if not a celebration of the territories where they take place, and of what those territories produce in drama and raw materials? [sings] Cycling Podcast has covered every Giro d'Italia on the ground since 2016. In that time, we've learned and hopefully conveyed to you, our listeners, that these are epic sagas played out on lands that live, breathe, and change with every edition, or sometimes even within the same edition. As you also know by now, we'll never strive to divorce the sport from its context. For among other reasons, we frankly don't want to. So anyway, the wine. As always, Greg Andrews and Luciano Girotto of DVine Cellars have picked six bottles produced very close to the race route for our own Cycling Podcast, Girovagando selection. You can find a link to