The Vine Whisperer by Filippo Testa

The Vine Whisperer by Filippo Testa

Filippo Testa was born and brought up in Palermo, the son of a Sicilian count. A budding musician, he was determined to follow a career as a jazz pianist until his father died and he inherited the family vineyards. Unschooled in the ways of the countryside, spurred on by the challenge of reviving what was a failing and unproductive estate, and driven by a strange but irresistible fascination for the unknown, he launched himself into a world of joy, wonder and fear that was to change his life forever. Based on stories, diary entries and interviews collated by Filippo Testa and Susannah Elliott, The Vine Whisperer interweaves fact, fiction and poetry into a beautiful but spine-chilling chronicle of life in the vineyards of western Sicily.

Filippo Testa has been running his family estate, the Conte Testa vineyards at Tarantola in the Sicilian Alcamo doc region, since the 1980s. Over the years he has established an organic wine and olive oil business (Gorgo del Drago). Susannah Elliott trained at Bristol University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She worked as an actress for ten years before moving to a career in heritage - researching and writing scripts for exhibition videos and subsequently producing interpretation in the heritage sector. She lives in Suffolk and works as a consultant in interpretation and visitor experience for the National Trust in East Anglia.

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ISBN 13	9781788035330
ISBN 10	178803533X
Title	The Vine Whisperer
Author	Filippo Testa
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Troubador Publishing
Year published	2017-03-28
Number of pages	120
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