Ep. 2222 Christopher Barnes | Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon

Welcome to episode 2222 of the Italian Wine Podcast, and episode 175 of Wine, Food & Travel with Marc Millon. Marc’s guest today is Christopher Barnes, founder editor and publisher of the Grape Collective. More about today’s guest: Christopher Barnes is the founder of Grape Collective, a media and retail business focused on wine. The ten year old company is centered on grapecollective.com an online wine magazine that features a bi-weekly column by former Wall Street Journal columnists Dorothy J Gaiter and John Brecher as well as a multitude of contributors from around the world.  Connect Website: https://grapecollective.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grapecollective/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grapecollective/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grape-collective/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/grapecollective/videos More about the host Marc Millon: Marc Millon, VIA Italian Wine Ambassador 2021, has been travelling, eating, drinking, learning and writing about wine, food and travel for nearly 40 years. Born in Mexico, with a mother from Hawaii via Korea and an anthropologist father from New York via Paris, he was weaned on exotic and delicious foods. Marc and his photographer wife Kim are the authors of 14 books including a pioneering series of illustrated wine-food-travel books: The Wine Roads of Europe, The Wine Roads of France, The Wine Roads of Italy (Premio Barbi Colombini), and The Wine Roads of Spain. Other titles include The Wine and Food of Europe, The Food Lovers’ Companion Italy, The Food Lovers’ Companion France, Wine, a global history. Marc regularly lectures and hosts gastronomic cultural tours to Italy and France with Martin Randall Travel, the UK’s leading cultural travel specialist. He has also been the host of the ‘Wine, food and travel with Marc Millon’ series on the Italian Wine Podcast since 2021. When not on the road Marc lives on the River Exe in Devon, England. Connect: Website:  https://www.quaypress.uk   https://www.marcmillon.co.uk  https://www.vino.co.uk    https://www.quaypress.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-millon-50868624/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Marc_Millon  _______________________________ Let's keep in touch! Follow Italian Wine Podcast on our social media channels: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/italianwinepodcast/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ItalianWinePodcast  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/itawinepodcast  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mammajumboshrimp  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/italianwinepodcast  If you feel like helping us, donate here: https://www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/  Until next time, Cin Cin! Thanks for listening! This show is all about food and wine pairings, and traveling through Italy with Marc. Join him on this food, wine and cultural journey!