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FONDATA is a content platform that explores and celebrates subjects adjacent to the worlds of fine wine, spirits & collecting.

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Producer of exquisite Eaux-de-Vie, Rochelt, is a family run business that sets a benchmark for Tyrolean tradition, craft and quality. In our new issue, we interview its head honcho and shine a light on three other distilleries that are elevating EDV to the realm of alchemy.

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In his brilliant feature in our new issue, the well-travelled @JohnSimpsonNews recalls the most memorable drinking establishments he’s ever frequented and, in doing so, reveals the vital role alcoholic beverages play in the subtle art of face-to-face reconnaissance.

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Our second issue features long-reads by Jay Fielden, Tamlyn Currin, Deyan Sudjic, @DeeMcQuillan, @JohnSimpsonNews, Nicholas Foulkes and @dylanjonesa
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If we've been quiet (and we have) it's because we've been busy working on our second issue. We're delighted to announce FONDATA issue No. 2 is now published and our cover star is Screaming Eagle winemaker Nick Gislason who also designs fireworks and brews exceptional lager 🍷🎆🍻

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Writing from her family’s world-renowned #DallaValleVineyards in California’s Napa Valley, its recently appointed winemaker Maya Dalla Valle (@mayadvalle) reflects on her globe-trotting journey to reach her destiny. #🍷

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To accompany food writer Thom Eagle’s feature ‘Time for Food’, we commissioned artist Stewart Walton to illustrate Maccu di San Giuseppe, a traditional Sicilian soup made with fava beans, chickpeas, lentils, pasta and vegetables. #editorial

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This is just one of eleven design ideas for increasing outdoor conviviality proposed by @AbRogersDesign in FONDATA’s first printed journal. Inspired by his East London neighbourhood, Ab came up with a range of furniture-like structures to give social spontaneity a hand. #design

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Wielding our phones, we’re all wine experts now, right? For FONDATA, @dylanjonesGQ explores – with the help of @antoniogalloni, @jamessuckling, @jancisrobinson, @jeanniecholee, @lisapbmw + @wgfkelley – the difference between enthusiasm and expertise to uncover the worth of wisdom

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Writer and author Geoff Dyer’s feature ‘The Mirth of More’ appears in FONDATA Issue One. In it, he charts his slow journey towards a greater appreciation of well-chosen wine. 📈🍷

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This rather splendid view is of Alex Xu’s Miao Lu winery high in the foothills of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan, China. For our first issue, we spoke to Alex to uncover a series of epiphanic wine-tasting moments (at #Aurum #Bindi & #Dujac) that changed Alex’s life. #🍷

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We had Nicholas Foulkes and sons Freddie and Max 📸 for our inaugural publication by the supremely talented Julian Broad. In the issue, Nick considers the notion of transmitting cultural knowledge and enthusiasms from one generation to the next. #NickFoulkes #JulianBroad

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Especially for our inaugural publication, LA-based author and writer Geoff Dyer considers his ever-increasing appreciation of, and reverence for, well-chosen wine. 📸 by Marcus Nilsson. #Editorial

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Sarah Jane Humphrey (@sarahgalerie) created five new illustrations of grape varieties for us. This is Armenian variety, Areni, which makes high-quality, age-worthy wines with complex aromas of violets, wisteria, cherries and blackberries, silky tannins and refreshing acidity. #🍷

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Co-founder of Turner-prize winning architecture and urbanism practice Assemble, @PalomaStrelitz is one of four architects and designers that imagined how design can facilitate conviviality, especially for FONDATA’s inaugural print journal. Illustration by #natskoseki #Editorial

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Beautiful image by Natsko Seki for @fondatamedia illustrating my piece on the future of the high street. Direct inspiration from how much I've enjoyed my own neighborhood at this time and all the really smart ways people have adapted their businesses to open onto the street.

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For FONDATA’s first print issue, @adamgopnik takes a look at the world of wine through the lens of seminal wine-lover’s bible, ‘Wine Grapes’, and talks to one of its co-authors, @jancisrobinson about the joy of discovering long-forgotten indigenous grape varieties.🍇 #🍷

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People are at the heart of everything FONDATA does. We seek out the most interesting subjects and engage the best minds and writers to tell their stories with honesty, verve, and due reverence. Huge thanks to all the contributors to our first journal! 🙏

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Especially for FONDATA’s first printed journal, the one and only @jancisrobinson talked to @adamgopnik about her book ‘Wine Grapes’ and the enduring appeal of looking to the lesser-known varieties to discover new pleasures. 📷 by @gavinbondphotography Set design by @raggie_f.

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When lockdown hit, it felt dangerously close to the end of long, thoughtful, funny and serious conversations. We put together the best minds to tackle the subjects that matter to us as collectors, and which possessed us by their absence: experience, space, people. #Editorial

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Our first project is a journal filled with essays and articles by some of the world’s most highly respected journalists, authors and academics. It’s a celebration of the craft, care and camaraderie central to the production and enjoyment of the finer things in life. #Editorial