Film Commission Torino Piemonte

“Imbeciles and corrupt people” thundered Luigi Veronelli in 1986 in the aftermath of the deaths from the methanol scandal. From here begins the story of the life of this great food and wine expert, unraveled through archive images, interviews with collaborators and those who knew him, always calling him by his nickname: Gino. Wine was Veronelli's primary interest and so, in the filmic metaphor, his life becomes a great red wine, to be planted, harvested and then drunk. From his first steps as a publisher fighting against censorship, up to the trials, the battles in defense of small producers and the complaint against Coca Cola, his anarchist and oenological ideas matured, becoming a precious nectar drunk by many young people in the last phase of his life. Investigating Veronelli's thought, understanding the legacy of one of our most interesting rebellious personalities, is therefore a way to question ourselves on a hot topic like that of food, with all the conflicts that it still brings with it today.