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Master Somm Bobby Stuckey: In Defense of Fine Dining & Friuli
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- The Wine Centric Show
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- Jun 3, 2026
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- 2803
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Summary
Bobby Stuckey has spent twenty years telling Americans that the most important wine region in Italy isn't Tuscany. It isn't Piedmont either. It's Friuli. As co-founder of Frasca Food and Wine and one of the most respected Master Sommeliers in the country, Stuckey has watched food journalists question whether fine dining still has a place in American culture. He has a clear answer: they don't know what they're talking about. This conversation covers the wines and producers that put Friuli on the map, the real story behind orange wine, why Merlot and Chardonnay belong in Friuli just as much as Ribolla Gialla, and what it actually takes to build a restaurant culture around a region most Americans have never heard of. One question runs through all of it: how long does a grape need to grow somewhere before it becomes part of that place?