Fabrizio Gallina
Wine curator, scouter and hospitality entrepreneur
Twenty years of opening and running places where people gather around good wine. I travel to small European growers, build lasting relationships with them, and bring their wines to people in Miami who care about the story in the glass.
Hospitality is about people.
I am a hospitality and restaurant entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience operating venues in Italy and the United States. My career began in Rome in 2005, and since 2019 I have lived and worked in Miami.
Along the way I opened cafés, wine bars and restaurants, each built around the same idea: a great place to drink and eat is a place where culture, conversation and human connection can flourish.
Wine became the center of my work during my years in Rome, when I started traveling across Italy and Europe to meet growers who farm with care, often biodynamically or sustainably. Many of those relationships are more than a decade old, and they still guide every bottle I select today.
Genuine wines, real people, great stories.
Twenty years, two cities.
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2005
Cinecittà Café, Trevi e Tritone, Galleria
RomeAn all-day bar and restaurant in Italy's first shopping mall, and, inside the historic Galleria Alberto Sordi, a luxury coffee shop and a fine dining restaurant.
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2007 – 2019
Porta di Roma illy caffè
RomeA partnership with illycaffè in one of Italy's most important shopping centers, part of fifteen years as an illycaffè licensee.
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2012 – 2019
Café Montecitorio
RomeAn all-day café and wine bar in the center of Rome with a selection of wines from artisanal, biodynamic and sustainable producers. The years when the travels to growers began.
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2019 – 2022
Pastificio Propaganda
MiamiA Sicilian-inspired restaurant with a wine list of over 120 Sicilian labels. In the same period, consultant for the launch of Santovino, a natural wine bar pop-up.
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2023
Sospiro Wine Bar & Cucina
Coral GablesFounded in 2022 and opened in 2023: a wine bar built around a program of more than 700 wines and a philosophy of authenticity, hospitality and storytelling. For three and a half years Sospiro welcomed the Coral Gables community and became a destination for wine lovers, and the relationships it created live on in FILO.
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2026
FILO Bespoke Wine Concierge
MiamiA private wine concierge that brings small European growers to a select circle in South Florida, with tastings, dinners and a journal of stories from the vineyards.
The people behind the wines.
As seen in.
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The Palm Beach PostTariffs, food prices make for uneasy start to lucrative Florida winter tourism, holiday season
“If we discourage the young people, the passionate people that started working in this industry… we lose also the future, the possibility in the future to spread the correct wine culture.”
Interviewed as owner of Sospiro Wine Bar in Coral Gables, on the wines of small European growers, the 600 to 700 labels on the Sospiro list, and the future of wine culture in the United States.
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The New York TimesYes, You Can Plan a (Nearly) Stress-Free Ceremony
A Miami couple chose Sospiro in Coral Gables for an intimate wedding: vows on the terrace, Italian dinner, jazz and dancing with 33 family members and friends.
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The Hungry PostThe best wine bars in Miami
Sospiro named among the best wine bars in Miami, with its intimate atmosphere, wine flights, tastings and Italian kitchen.
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Miami New Times13 Most Romantic Restaurants in Miami
Sospiro called “a romantic delight”: natural wines from small, independent growers, a Mediterranean-inspired Italian menu, a cozy backyard garden and wine flights to share.
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Bloom Lifestyle Co.The Most Aesthetic Wine Bars in Miami for Your Next Founder Night Out
Sospiro featured for bringing Italian sophistication to the neighborhood: a place where conversations feel elevated and ideas flow naturally.
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Notes from the table.
- What 60 wine tastings at Sospiro taught me about Miami wine loversLinkedIn · October 2026
What I do now.
FILO
Wine programs, a private wine club and wine experiences for luxury residences, hospitality partners and private clients in South Florida.
filowine.com · For partnersSTORIE
The journal where every producer visit becomes a story: the people, the land and the bottles behind the wines I select.
Read STORIEPrivate work
Building a private cellar, shaping the wine program of a restaurant or club, or leading a small group to Europe to walk the vineyards with the growers.
Get in touchPiemonte · Burgundy · Etna · Jura · Rhône · Rioja · Champagne
Let's talk wine.
For partnerships, wine programs, private cellars and events, I am happy to hear from you.