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# Room for Everyone
- URL: https://www.izackstjernberg.com/room-for-everyone/
- Published: 2026-02-01T14:39:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-12T17:31:34.000Z
- Description: Supermarket wine or auction rarities? Organic Piedmont winemaker Gabriele Baldi says wine always sparks deeper understanding. Relax, enjoy, and grow your senses naturally. The world of wine has room for everyone.
- Author: Izack Stjernberg
- Tags: Off-season notes, Wine, Baldi, Piemonte, Italy

Almost two years ago, I did an interview with Gabriele Baldi, an organic wine producer in Piedmont.

The interview was a prototype of the kind of content I was imagining back then for what has now become MotoVino Adventures, but it was never published.

When I decided last week to release it as an “Archive Gem” [here on the site](https://www.izackstjernberg.com/the-freedom-to-be-a-brush/), I started thinking about something Gabriele said that didn’t make it into the published interview. It was,

“The world of wine has room for everyone.”

### The Inherent Nature of Wine

At first, I didn’t fully grasp what he meant, but he explained it to me.

In his view, it doesn’t matter how good you are at tasting wine or how much theoretical knowledge you have. None of that really matters at all — because wine’s inherent nature will always create a desire to understand it just a little bit deeper, and in doing so, you naturally develop your abilities.

Whether you buy the cheapest supermarket wine or the most expensive bottle at auction makes no difference. The process is the same.

His point is that we should accept where we are in relation to wine and not try to know or master everything. It’s far better to enjoy the wine on its own terms and let the ability to smell and taste emerge naturally.

Something he believes is inevitable — because wine is a dynamic, living product. It’s impossible to drink wine without, at some point, feeling the urge to understand it more deeply.

### The Bridge to Wine

His words gave me a lot to think about back then, and today I can confirm that he was right. What he said helped me relax in my relationship with wine and stop treating it like a performance sport.

Instead, I chose to let my sense of smell and taste — as well as my theoretical understanding — develop at their own pace. I will never become a “super taster,” but I have grown since then, and today I find it much easier to dive into wine both sensorially and intellectually.

The process makes the pleasure of drinking wine greater — and that is where the real reward lies. It becomes easier to build a bridge to the wine, and through that, to the balance between nature and human beings. Which, in the end, is a bridge to oneself. 

*Photo by: Jacquiline Louise Holm*