Andrea Bresolin plays the trumpet in his spare time.

Italian Bragato Exchange Scholar Andrea Bresolin believes his experience of the New Zealand wine scene will be among his most significant ever.

While the 19-year-old is nervous about travelling so far from his home village of Pasiano in north-eastern Italy, he’s also excited to be having his first taste of a southern hemisphere winegrowing country.

During his month away, he is touring New Zealand’s wine regions, attending the Romeo Bragato Conference in Marlborough and visiting EIT’s School of Viticulture and Wine Science – the
sister school of the Scuola Enoligica di Conegliano where he is a weekday boarder.

Established in 2003 and co-sponsored by EIT and the Rotary Club of Taradale, the scholarship is aimed at fostering an ongoing link between the Scuola di Viticoltura di Conegliano – where the
father of New Zealand viticulture Romeo Bragato also studied – and EIT.

Bresolin already has an idea of what to expect for his trip, having been told by last year’s Italian Bragato Scholarship winner, Nicola Manzan, that New Zealand is an amazing country and that Kiwis are very different from Italians.