I was moved to tears literally when he shared the 2011 vintage wine with you and his passionate discussion of what it means to him moved me in such a way that I cannot fully describe in words. The story about how he brought the family home/ winery back to life and his descriptions of how the vines are grown, the description on the paper with the bottles was educational to me too. This man exudes character, life, passion, and he followed his heart and dream to give up a banking job for a far better life in this beautiful part of Italy. Thank you Stephanie and Oliver for taking us with you to this magnificent winery. It was a joy to listen to this man talk with much passion and joy. Breathtaking!!!

@cheriesharp234

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That was a joy to watch, the amount of love and passion that goes into his wine is wonderful and to share a bottle from his harvest in 2011 show you the type of man he is, a true gentleman. Lovely this channel. X

@mariapetras2654

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Very well said ! Thank you very much for your words✨🙏😊

I love to see the emotion in the Winemaker on his face when he tasted the wine from his first vintage, so much has happened to all of us since then, how glorious to literally have those memories bottled.

When I think of Italian people the first that comes to mind are the words 'sharing' and hospitality. Daniele Delaini is the perfect example of those words.

LOVE LOVE LOVE THE SERIES...YOU and OLLIE are a great team...love your choices so far...thank you

Congratulations to Daniele and his wife Chiara for having the courage to go after his dream of creating special wines on his family's property. Not only is he realizing his dreams but honoring the land by restoring it to a vital working vineyard that his family once worked. I wish he and his wife continued success in all their business endeavors. I hope that I can visit this place one day when I tour Italy. Thanks for sharing this beautiful place with us Ollie and Stephanie.

What a wonderful man he was . I am in love x old enough to be his grandmother xx

I agree with Oliver I love Italy ❤

Stephanie & Ollie ~ A Million Thanks For Sharing Your Friendship ~ Through Your Travels ~ It’s The Million Little Things ~ That Create A Delightful Experience ~ Through Your Adventures 💝 Thank You 💞

What an absolute joy this was. Thank you, Stephanie and Olly. X

36:01 that was so kind of him to share his most personal choice wine 🍷 from his first vintage. what a wonderful place to visit while vacationing in Italy 🇮🇹 thanks for sharing!

Thank you Olly and Stephanie for taking us on your trip to Lake Garda what a beautiful place to visit very nice indeed.see you both for the next trip .💕🌼🤗

I have a huge crush on Daniele! His huge charm & passion! 🍇 Thanks to you all 😊xxxx

@ritasengupta9611

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My idea of the perfect man!

When I get to wander around Italy with you I am so grateful for my Italian heritage. My soul grows each time. Thank you especially for this one.🤗❤️🌈🕊️☀️🍇🍋🍐🍅🌶️

Ciao Stephanie and Ollie, well Ollie I am Italian and very proud to be. What an enchanting place, the beautiful Villa, the vineyards, the stunning view of lake Garda. Italy is an amazing country, as we say, "la dolce vita" and the Delaini have found it, through their dream and hard work. Thank you for taking us along, I just love the friendship and chemistry between you two, as you " Mangia, Prega, Ama, your way through Italy. Thanks again.

What a wonderful episode. Thank you, Stephanie and Oliver for yet another amazing visit and for sharing the joy of it with all your followers. 🎉❤

The fun you have is infectious. I think it is how you and the host make us feel. No one watching will go away unchanged

Thank you for allowing us to share the wonder of traveling ❤

I love how you focus on small businesses. After the last few years, we need to build up family businesses and forget about the big chains.

Thank you Ollie and Steph for another beautiful and interesting video. One of my dearest friends recently came back froma holiday to Lake Garda and she was smitten. I love everything about Italy especially the people, the food and the culture. My late dad would have been in his element just doing what you did in this video, talking about wine and tasting it. He would of loved. X

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My daughter is just back from Lake Garda and she fell in love with the place ❤

Talk about your vineyard with a view! He did a very good job of explaining so many aspects of the viticulture and the actual winemaking, especially his explanation of the differences in wine production styles. Thanks for taking us along here! 🍇 🍷 🫒 🥖 La Dolce Vita!

What a fascinating and wonderful man. I am so loving these vlogs. You are both so watchable and Ollie you are so funny . Thankyou 🤗

Absolutely loved this episode- Daniele is a gem of a man! What passion and knowledge, so admirable ❤❤

What a glorious, relaxing and beautiful setting and - oh that lake view! No wonder the grapes are growing along happily, who wouldn’t be!😂 Daniele and Chiara certainly made the right decision to settle there and Daniele has definitely inherited his family passion for making fine wine. Thanks Ollie and Stephanie for taking us to another gorgeous travel stop! ❤️🙏🏻

What a superb, interesting, educational, enviable, fun journey I’ve just been on with you both. Many thanks 😊

Wow what an experience!

wow- this is incredible traveling!

I Love Italy 🇮🇹 My Grand parents was born in Italy they’re very friendly share with you the lovely people 💕👫

Absolutely loving this channel, love Italy, actually I love Europe! I was smiling for 40 minutes.

Thank you Stephanie and Ollie for once again taking us on such a wonderful, magical episode to Northern Italy and the simply gorgeous Villa Calicantus on the shores of Lake Garda and introducing us to the owner Daniele Delani, who told us his very moving story of how he had given up working in a bank in France to return to his ancestral home and vineyard, and how, gradually he and his wife are re-establishing and re-creating an exceptional Organic and biodynamic winery in the heart of the Bardolino, Veneto, region. It was so interesting to learn from Daniele about the viniculture and terroir in his vineyards and about the different ages and fermentations in the French oak barrels as well as his explanation of the fermentation in the concrete tanks and steel tanks. In his presentation of the tasting of the Villa Calicantus Bardolino Superiore to Stephanie and Ollie his passion of his wines was tangible and you felt you were also participating! We also appreciate, like yourselves and many people, good wines, and I used to have a wine business called Top Cellars, exclusively marketing and importing Johann Kattus GmBH Hochreigl-Sekt from the only winery in Vienna which was the only one to have been appointed by royal warrant to the Court of Hapsburg. A family member had a winery and vineyard near Certaldo in Tuscany, with the renowned wine ‘Vernaccia di San Gimignano DOCG. So Viniculture is in my family history too! We therefore agree with you both that you should definitely start a ‘cave’ at LaLande with wine tastings of Daniele’s fabulous wines you purchased, which we feel sure would be a great success with your guests! We look forward to your next episodes and to you returning before long to Villa Calicantus. Love and best wishes Christina and Nick, Crediton, Devon, UK.🙂🍷🍷🥰

What a place! Such beauty, culture, and purpose! Such happiness when three people of equal conviviality, education, and appreciation come together with a certain immediate understanding of life that melts all barriers. This does not happen often, and is a joy to see when it does, allowing everyone else to be a part of the story being conveyed. Thank you for including us, and allowing us to learn something, and travel with you. Happy friends!

I love Italy, Italians and Italian language … this was delicious ❤ thank you for sharing this precious experience with us … grazie mille ❤

Beautiful vista, promising Vinyard, returning family, new friends, passion, hope, purpose..what more could one ask? Thank you for taking us along.

What a lovley man...!

That was a joy to watch, the amount of love and passion that goes into his wine is wonderful and to share a bottle from his harvest in 2011 show you the type of man he is, a true gentleman. Loving this channel. X

Pobably the best of all vlogs so far! Such passoin, such feeling of Italy! And we learned a lot...thank you all.

🥰 Lovely! Thank You Both!

Yes Oliver you need to be Italian! Nothing better! Love the look when you took your sip of wine!

I simply burst into tears when he spoke about having down days.

Thank you Stephanie and Ollie, that was so interesting to learn about the grapes and wine making. The olive oil looked delicious on the bread too. The Villa has quite a lot of pitential, I do hope you will do a follow up soon. Being entertained and educated by lovely people, what more can we want. 💕 🇦🇺

I want these videos to go on forever and ever

I'm so happy to see you Stephanie and Holly visiting and enjoin my country, please come back soon! 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

It is so uplifting to see a great great grandson, restart a family dream, and yes, the passion runs through his heart and veins and mind. I loved this vlog. I wish him and his wife all the prosperity for their amazing vision, effort, and creation. It was a great history lesson as well. A friend of mine just bought a villa in Italy. I can understand why. It is so beautiful. Thanks, Stephanie and Ollie, for taking us along.❤

This was so special - I hope you do go back there.

Lovely trip 🥰🥰

Loved this tour of the Lake Garda winery. Great wines come from great winemakers with creativity and passion, teamed with perseverance and hard work. Thank you for the tour Steph and Ollie and the introduction to this special man and his wine. 🥰🥰🍷🍷

Had a week on Lake Garda. Beautiful scenery, great food, wonderful people. Thank you for this vlog. Brought back lovely memories. X

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For me too ❤ I spent a week in Bardolino before Covid and this video reminds me that I must go back soon 🇮🇹🥰

I lived in Verona some time ago and this brought back wonderful memories of my excursions to Lago di Garda. Loved learning about winemaking. Thank you for sharing!!! Blessings from Texas!!!

What a wonderful experience! Felt the elegance! Thank you!❤

I absolutely loved his passion and the food was exactly what I find joy in, like you said Stephanie it gets all of your senses going. Perfecto !

What a fantastic wine experience !! Yes Please go back to revisit this interesting winemaker! Curious to see what has been changed since then ! Cheers guys 🥂 la vita è bella

The host is just amazing, sincere, welcoming. This is a real la dolce vita.

Stephanie and Oliver, this was a great vlog. I enjoyed it over dinner, and thoroughly enjoyed sharing your time with the very wise winemaker! Cheers!

Thank you Stephanie and Oliver - is not enough to describe the pure joy, love and inspiration this vlog represents. I truly appreciate your genuine love and respect for all things authentic and your host is so enigmatic. Didn't think you could top the last vlog -but my goodness you have. Can't wait for the next enchanting journey. Love to you and your families and god bless

That a wonderful story. Such generosity and love. One of the best vlogs ever. Congratulations to all involved.

That is truly my favourite part of Europe!!

Lovely to watch your experience at Lake Garda and the winery!

So loved the "special bottle" at the end....this man was sooo proud to serve it and I just wanted to hug him...Love your Travels channel...thank you!

Hi guys, I love, love, love your new channel! You guys are so lucky to live in Europe. You can get to all these beautiful places quickly. I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I hope someday to make it to anywhere in Europe! Thanks for sharing the sights! Have a super weekend and thanks again!

This was amazing and inspirational. He is living his dream and he had the courage to go after the dream. He is truly inspirational. Thank you for sharing!

What an interesting and informative visit.

Love the wine makers passion❤ thanks to you both❤

Love this man and his courage to go after his dream. Lovely dress Stephanie, the style is good on you. I enjoyed the simple yet informative conversation between old and new friends.

Stephanie and Oliver, what an extraordinary glimpse into the heart and soul of an Italian vintner!! Thank you very much for bringing us along!! The sensibility of Northern Italians is quite a contrast to the south, which are my roots. Fortunately, my appreciation extends to both. Finally, I have fond memories of a 1973 day trip from Milano to visit Lago di Garda and the Grottoes of Catullus. Chuck in Northern New England

I want to live a life like that. Relax, enjoy everything and appreciate everything.🙂🇨🇦

What an admirable man with a dream. Thanks so much for bringing us with you.

Such a beautiful experience … so enjoy this channel

My favourite wines are bio dynamic and natural. He explained his winery’s philosophy very well, now I’ll be on the look out for his wines. Fascinating episode, thank you!

Inspiring. Well done.

Thank you for the video! Beautiful place! (I avoid dinner party 'is it ready' stress by only serving dishes which can be fully cooked the day before and stored in the fridge overnight! Some dishes don't suffer from overnight storage and will even improve by being left until the next day!)

Exquisite! I loved this! Thank you Stephanie and Ollie... Keep up the amazing videos! 😊❤️

I know I am a little late to the party. So many vlogs not enough time! I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Italy, wine, passion, history, family .... hits all the important things to me. The idea that he is continuing his family legacy and has a vision to where it will go is so amazing. What an adventure you two were able to have, so so jealous.

This was so interesting. There was so much I didn’t know about wine, I wanted to taste it myself.

Gorgeous! everything about it. Sandi x

I sent this video, I even found on Google where they are and I sent it to my kids and my husband and told them if they are wondering where I am that’s where I will be. I think I should sit at one of those tables and drink wine for the rest of my days, it sounds heavenly.

What a great guy. That looked so much fun and super interesting! 👌

I loooooove Italy ! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇😗😘😘😘😘😘

Beautiful country. I bet it was a privilege and honor to share the moments with him and his company. The vino looked spectacular in color and I bet in taste to9. Thanks for sharing. Julie f

+We stayed in Garda 40+ years ago and our morning walk was to Bardalino to replenish our pottery jug with wine for the day - idyllic x x

What a beautiful man. He opened his heart and his wine because he found you special. A beautiful connection.

What a fabulous gift to share in Daniele's special wine! Stephanie you have a certain magnetism that allows for people to share special things with you,as they know you truly connect with them and share their story honourably. This visit was truly special.

Delightful and informative

what a wonderful place wish i were there with you - ah the italian life - how lovely! i love that guy!

Very informative! This gentleman has a very good command of English.

What a Great Idea this channel has been! A slow journey, deeply immersed in the experience! (Not a rush through, look at this now look at this!) So Glad I Subscribed as soon as you announced it's coming out!

Lovely to hear a man with a passion share his knowledge ❤

Loved this! Thanks so much. I wish I was there savouring some of the food and wine and of course the wonderful atmosphere!

Lovely comments Oliver in recognition of Daniele’s hard work & making quality wine!

Thankyou for this wonderful visit to Lake Garda and Villa Calicantus Stephanieand Ollie. I loved hearing about how this young man brought his families vinyard back to life and how passionate he his about his wines. ❤❤❤

That was amazing. I am about to go by lake Como in August. Can't wait!

This was just a lovely experience. Thank you!

What a lovely adventure in Lake Garda, thank you for sharing! This foodie is drooling over the wine and olive oil 😂 and really appreciate the determination of the winemaker and his dedication to his family history.

Love love this series - thank you!

How beautiful! Made my day!

Absolutely lovely vlog! Thank you for taking us along with you both. Hugs, Bren

What a delight that man is. And aren't Italians welcoming?

This is one of my favorite channels ❤Thank you for taking us all along ✌🏻

Daniele - wow! Such zest for life and the courage to follow his passion can only be admired..

Another beautiful place and what can top wine and food.

What an amazing, dynamic and gorgeous man. So much passion and generosity. Quite infectious. I have to admit I was quite envious of you both. I agree with Ollie. We should all have a little bit of Italian in us.

Divine! What a treat! Mega thanks for a delightful episode. ❤