Tuvykin Biography

Stepan Tuvykin - Russian Italy Dodici Wine - the history of copyright, collection, exceptional wines inspired by Russian cinema. Dodici translated from Italian means “12” - the name of the same name by Nikita Mikhalkov’s film is encrypted in the brand name - approx. The company was founded in the year of Konstantin Tuvykin in partnership with the Russian director.

The Wine line includes 15 items from basic to collectibles with a 50 -year excerpt potential. Enologist Vinodelny-Ricardo Kotarell, a legend man, standing at the origins of the revival of winemaking all of Italy. About the old and new European traditions, the difference in mentality, the future, experiments, the specifics of agriturism in Italy and the prospects of winemaking in Russia Stepan Tuvykin, the owner of the Dodici Wine winery, told Dmitry Alekseev, the founder of the project 50 Best Tastes of Russia.

Today, the successes of your company are obvious, the wine is famous and popular far from Italy itself, you can find out how it all started? In the year, the father had an idea to purchase, or build a house in Italy. But we have a large family and an active life position. Initially, only objects with their own production were fundamentally considered. The choice settled on the La Madonna farm in Tatti Tuscany - with vineyards and a small winery volume of production of thousands of bottles per year.

The age of this village is thousands of years, two small houses on our site are about years. I assume that such a volume of production and area of ​​vineyards was not enough? Absolutely for sure. And soon the construction began - the new winery was already architecturally “inscribed” in the landscape of the terrain. An ideal, natural production cycle was created, which provides a constant temperature, humidity throughout the year, which is fundamentally for winemaking and storage of wines.

Vinograms in Gavorrano and arson-Gobbo were also purchased. Today, Merlo, Caburne of Suvignon, Sanjovez, Chiledzholo grows from red varieties. From the whites: Vione, Vermentino and Suvignon Blanc. Wine production is located in Tuscany, Italy. By the way, how did the neighbors, future competitors from among local winemakers reacted to such an initiative? Italians are generally jealous people, and then suddenly - Russians, and even with ambition to produce wine at the highest level ...

Probably, as elsewhere, when you come to a new place. At first they made fun of, did not believe what would work out. But in the end they accepted. Of course, in some matters it is difficult to find a common language-a mentality completely different. But the main thing is that our wines quickly began to enjoy interest and popularity among Italians. How did you personally come to winemaking?

From childhood, I helped my father with vineyards. It is amazing to observe when the company grows with you. Then he was educated in Italy, graduated from University of Gastronomic Sciences. And all the time of training he worked at the winery, subsequently headed it. What is your favorite wine - your own production? Saturated, ruby, with shades of cherries, blueberries, spices, vanilla and sweet spices.

How much tastes, attitude towards wines differ in Italy and in Russia? Italians are very conservative, mainly drink wine from their native region. After all, all his life he drank just such wine. In Russia, of course, there can not be such an approach yet - simply because grapes are growing not everywhere. But the sphere is actively developing, people begin to massively understand varieties, technologies.

The same goes for gastronomy. In fact, modern restaurants appeared in Russia only in the same. And now in Nizhny Novgorod, Peter, Sochi, there are already many projects, the level of which Michelin restaurants in Europe can envy. Great trend - Russia enters the world market. In recent years, many Italians have discovered the production of cheeses, meat delicacies, pizzerias, and confectionery - according to their traditional and unchanged technologies in Russia.

Russians open wine farms in Italy - and this is great. Exchange of cultures, ideas, tastes, technologies, experience. By the way, what are your preferences - how good, complex wine in principle needs a special gastronomic accompaniment? A simple approach to this issue is close to me. White - to the fish, red - to the meat. It seems to me that this is enough. Although often I find new, very interesting enogastronomic combinations.

For example, recently, in the Red Wall restaurant in Nizhny Novgorod, I found an impeccable pair of our white, sweet, dessert wine from Vione-Pate from Foie-grade with Brioshi and onion jam. Fua-grade, by the way, was Russian production. And something is heard about the wines of Russian production-in Italy? Of course, due to the specifics of the profession, I try to follow the trends.

And some Russian winemakers, on which leading enologists from Europe work, have long been the fault of an excellent level. You can’t distinguish where this wine is from Russia or, for example, Italy.

But in Italy itself there are no Russian wines. Unless colleagues are discussing news themes - Crimea, large investments. But it is impossible to try Russian wines in Italy anywhere.It seems to me that while the difference in the mentality of the consumer of the wines in Russia and Europe is still significant. Recently, many people in general preferred only sweet wines by our strange Soviet tradition.

There were many jokes. In Paris, in a three -star Michelin restaurant, the office of a large Russian company marks a deal. Trys - "Bring sugar, please." Is this happening in your practice? There is no Russia with Russia. But there was a similar case - in China. We send there about once every three years a whole container - 20 thousand bottles. So, they brought wine for tasting, a person takes even a wine glass - a glass.

He pours red wine into it, asks for lemon, squeezes juice there, drinks ... But he liked it! By the way, how do you feel about enlological experiments - within the rational, of course? It seems to me that one of the main trends today is Mono-Vina, created on the basis of one grape variety. A pure taste is an ideal solution to feel and emphasize notes and aromas in wine.

But at the same time, any modern winery, in my opinion, should be prepared to find a new one. And we are no exception. In our Russian office, they often talked about the good demand for assaults from the FR. Petillant Naturelle - natural sparkling - approx. It turned out something incredible! In the world of winemaking, Italy is famous for the strong state support of its own manufacturer.

Please tell us what exactly is it? There are many subsidies. In fact, for every euro, we get something back. Recently we purchased a car for the destruction of weeds in the vineyard. This does not mean that I paid the check in the store, and they will immediately return the part to the card. Conditionally, for several years, the amount will return as taxes. When we pour the wine into the tanks - where it passes to fermentation.

If we declare that we will not “touch” the tanks for another six months, we also get certain money. And this is already immediately at the expense - control of the turnover of wine in the region. The whole system is quite complicated and depends on the zone of the winery subregion - approx. In the Bulgeri zone, unlike us, the subsidies are much smaller, and the Earth is more expensive.

By the way, I get more subsidies than many older winemakers - a young entrepreneur. Everything is thoroughly spelled out here. If you want to buy in Italy, for example, 10 hectares of vineyards and build a winery nearby - it will not work, you have to wait. First you need to get quotas - for planting grapes. And even just to buy land, for example, under landing tomatoes, you can’t.

First you need to purchase a house - and so that there is enough living space. How strong is the competition from large companies? Everything is actually simple - either mass production, or family, craft. We have already made our choice.