Giorgio Grai, and “the sense of duty "

“Stiamo vivendo in un’epoca in cui tutti hanno diritti, ma nessuno parla di doveri. Giorgio Grai”

I met Giorgio Grai following the advice of John Cogo, the engineer who brianzolo “arma le terre” Bonassola and about which I wrote recently. I had arranged a tour of wines, but most of all tenants between the Veneto and Friuli. In particular, I felt compelled to keep his promise to his friend Michelangelo Cutting time back in the lead in the first visit to Oslavia Josko Gravner.

After sending an e-mail to arrange a meeting, answering the phone one morning I heard a voice say: “Buongiorno Cinzia, Giorgio Grai have. "I was the base of friends in the center of Treviso. Game early Michelangelo reached at Concordia Saggitaria; a hug and off for the first leg of our tour, Butterwick direction of Friuli.

I was not informed about the history of George. As usual, I prefer to know the people directly, to do with an idea is not tainted by what they read or hear; sometimes I realize that is a bit 'risky, but I like it, because the one that I live in this way is much more exciting.

Michelangelo was a witness to what I write; only after, on the way back, revealed to me that he feared a little bit of listening to our conversation to the crease who initially took. Giorgio Grai not understanding exactly what I tried with my questions suddenly asked me decided: “I would like to understand how I can be helpful for you?"I could not answer him that I did not know. I was there because I was advised to know. I told him simply that I would have understood only through his knowledge.

A man is not easy… but they are not either. There was a time when, having regard to its concerns, I could not help but ask: “Courage, Tell what you think!"His response was: “Lady, if there is a person who says what he thinks I am!"In this statement I found myself. During my life I have paid many times for my choices, order not to be compromised.

My path is now a, although I have not yet entirely clear destination. Maybe that's why I do drive; I just know that every person I meet I try to learn a lesson which I love to write in a simple way, che custodisco, and I agree.

Giorgio Grai was born in Bolzano to Trieste father and mother Rovereto. The son of a family of hoteliers grew up in a time when, quote his own words "the right to be able to study it meant to have the right to be promoted”. After his agricultural studies and specialization in viticulture and enology, the experiences abroad have brought to 'use of touch, of taste and smell. The passion for engines that well understand and agree that, led him then to be for ten years a rally driver.

I will not dwell too much on the story of his life in many well-known from the information on the web; I preferred "living man" while, wine tasting in the light of the sun, I reflected on his words: “The recovery of a sense of duty than that of the right”. On my return to the house of things about him I've read and I've heard many… I only know for sure, I will remember to have known him in one morning in March while he savored her pie poppy, typical of South Tyrol, and then, we walked together in the cellar of the farm behavior with Marina Danieli.

And now I ask you: “Have you ever had to taste wine goblets resting on the hood of a Subaro under the hot sun of a morning in March ?” I did, but most of all I have lived. In that atmosphere I enjoyed listening to the life of George tell his wine and then hearing him say: “Godo di questo momento.”

I reproduce below a passage of “The Winegrowers historical” Luigi Veronelli and Nichi Stefi, Giorgio Grai gave me the day of our meeting.

"Giorgio Grai appears with the detached air of one who does not want to belong to anyone and is willing to pay for his freedom with the isolation. He has a ready wit, often caustic, always fun; but beneath the laughter reads his desire for precision. His adventure in wine is not only the result of a great and evident pleasure, but the continuous work of which he is aware and which offers you like the most obvious thing in the world ... "