Gone with the Wine wants to find good Chianti red wine. Jaakko meets the daughters of the Antinori noble family, Albiera and Alessia, who guide the man into the secrets of good wine and food. Jaakko also decides to attend a cookery course. Jaakko visits the Piedmont region of Italy. Jaakko meets a wine guru Angelo Gaja and Finnish Riikka Sukula who, together with her husband Jyrki Sukula, has acquired a winery in Piedmont. Jaakko also goes hunting for truffles. Jaakko visits the native region of the Soave white wine, Veneto in Northern Italy, situated in the middle of Lake Garda, Verona, Venice and
Soave (wine) near the commune of Soave the soils contain a high percentage of limestone which retain the warmth of the afternoon sun and helps produce fuller, more fruit-forward wines. In the eastern vineyards near Monteforte d'Alpone, the soils are made of decomposed volcanic rock that tends to produce what wine expert Jancis Robinson calls "steelier" wines. Only white wine is produced in the Soave region, and a minimum of 70% must be the Garganega grape. For Soave DOC wine, up to 30% of the blend can come from Trebbiano di Soave which is also known as Verdicchio and Nestrano. This grape