# Ep. 2786 A Journey into Italian Biodynamic Wine with Stefania Pepe and Artem Lebedev IWA | Clubhouse Ambassadors' Corner Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-wine-podcast-326131/ep-2786-a-journey-into-italian-biodynamic-wine-with-stefania-pepe-and-artem-lebedev-iwa-clubhouse-ambassadors-corner Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-wine-podcast-326131/ep-2786-a-journey-into-italian-biodynamic-wine-with-stefania-pepe-and-artem-lebedev-iwa-clubhouse-ambassadors-corner.md Podcast: [Italian Wine Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-wine-podcast-326131) Published: 2026-09-10T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.italianwinepodcast.com/ Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/MJS1316119346.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/italian-wine-podcast-326131/episodes/ep-2786-a-journey-into-italian-biodynamic-wine-with-stefania-pepe-and-artem-lebedev-iwa-clubhouse-ambassadors-corner Duration seconds: 2024 ## Resource Welcome to Clubhouse Ambassadors’ Corner and Episode 2786 of the Italian Wine Podcast. In this episode, Artem Lebedev IWA is in conversation with Stefania Pepe. Stefania shares her lifelong connection to wine and her journey from working alongside her father in the vineyards to establishing her own azienda agricola. She discusses her philosophy of biodynamic winemaking, traditional methods and the dedication behind creating authentic, artisanal wines. These sessions are recorded from Clubhouse and reproduced here for the Italian Wine Podcast.  More about today’s host:  Artem Lebedev is an international wine specialist and communicator (DipWSET, DipASI), with over a decade of experience in wine education and events. A VIA Italian Wine Ambassador, he is a judge for top competitions like Mundus Vini and 5StarWines and a speaker at global forums such as Wine2Wine. As the founder and first president of the Kazakhstan Sommelier Association, Artem has been a trailblazer in advancing wine culture in the country. He co-owns IWINE and CAWU educational projects and leads the Wine Department at Alma Wine, a major import and distribution company. Connect:  Website: https://iwine.kz/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headsomm/ More about today’s guest:   Stefania Pepe is an organic and biodynamic winemaker from Abruzzo, and the daughter of legendary natural wine pioneer Emidio Pepe. She grew up pressing grapes with her father at the age of four and started her own estate to focus fully on modern organic and biodynamic methods. In 1989 she helped found Le Donne del Vino, a prominent association for women in the wine industry. Her winery is based in Torano Nuovo on the Teramo hills of Abruzzo. She manages about 8 hectares of land using strictly natura… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/italian-wine-podcast-326131/episodes/ep-2786-a-journey-into-italian-biodynamic-wine-with-stefania-pepe-and-artem-lebedev-iwa-clubhouse-ambassadors-corner/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/italian-wine-podcast-326131/ep-2786-a-journey-into-italian-biodynamic-wine-with-stefania-pepe-and-artem-lebedev-iwa-clubhouse-ambassadors-corner.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.