Staff, Collaborators + Partners

Pippa Sorley joined the PMCA team in the fall of 2021, after decades of admiring Peggy and her exquisite vision from afar. She is a social ‘entrepreneuse’ with extensive background in strategic development, financial strategy, communications, branding, and marketing for sustainable + conscious businesses.  She is deeply passionate about all things sustainable and exploring new economic systems that will help shift the paradigm towards a more regenerative world.

She spent several years living, traveling and backpacking through SE Asia, Indonesia, Australia, Nepal, India and Europe in the early 90’s, as well as exploring the magic of Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico and western British Columbia since then.

She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her 13 year old son and too-smart border collie, and loves to dance on the snow with her tele-skis, writing, traveling, and…laughing, hard.

Photo: PSorley 2022

Born in Florence, Bernardo now splits his time between Italy and France. He has a degree in Political Science and a Master in Wine Marketing and Management and he promotes Italian wines on the export markets. Since 2015 Bernardo has been the official Champagne Ambassador to Italy.

Bernardo runs a wine marketing consulting company based in Florence and an import company specialized in artisan high-end wines, based in Paris. He also focuses in wine education for wine professionals and wine lovers, teaching in Italian, French and English.

On his spare time, Bernardo loves to make wine and runs his own small farm named Sottofiesole just outside Florence where he produces high-quality extra virgin olive oil.

Photo: Leading a wine tasting in Tuscany during our Cucina al Focolare Culinary Adventure

I was lucky enough to explore the world with my mother, father and sister from an early age. At five, I was eating kangaroo in Australia’s McLaren Vale, and at ten, I was already drinking Campari and soda in the Florentine palazzi (What?… We didn’t realize it had alcohol).

I learned how to cook at my mother’s Tuscan culinary school from some of the best chefs in Italy.  At 21, I got my first cooking job at The Kitchen back in my hometown of Boulder, Colorado. I moved over to bartending after a year and began learning about wine and cocktails. This is where the idea of crafting my own beverages was sparked.

I graduated from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and got a job at Antica Terra Winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. For seven years, I worked under Antica Terra’s Maggie Harrison and Hiyu Wine Farm’s Master Sommelier, Nate Ready. I learned many things from those two, but the number one thing I learned was to think deeply about winemaking and how to add beauty to every step of the process. No matter how arduous or tiring, every action must be taken to make the best wine possible.

Many people say that if you squint hard enough, the rolling hills of The Dalles look somewhat like the hills of Chianti. It reminded me of some wild hybrid of the American West and Tuscany, two places near and dear to my heart. The opportunity was too excellent to pass up. It was time for me to make my wine available at www.buonanottewines.com.

I still love to cook, and I’m always looking to push the boundaries of creativity in the world of food and wine. I love to join my mother on trips, especially in Tuscany where I feel most at home, but also in Procida where I lived for 5 months working with Bluedream Charter. Cooking on the boat is challenging, but obviously a joy… but not as much fun as fishing for octopus by hand.

Photo: Making wine in Hood River, Oregon.

Photo: Desert gazing.