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Ettore Germano, Tenuta Sella and Agostino Pavia & Figli – Italian Wineries September 2011
Since 1856, the Germano family has owned six hectares in Piemonte’s famed Serralunga d’Alba, one of six premium growing areas for Barolo. During the last fifty…
8 min
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C.G. Di Arie Vineyard & Winery – California Winery of the Month September 2011
In his early adulthood, Chaim Gur-Arieh pursued scientific studies that culminated in a Ph.D. in Food Science with minors in Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering, followed by…
14 min
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Fanti, Renzo Marinai & Corte alla Flora – Italian Wineries August 2011
The 750-acre San Filippo estate has belonged to the Fanti family since the beginning of the 18th Century and is located near Montalcino in the Castelnuovo…
6 min
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Quinta Cruz – California Winery of the Month August 2011
Santa Cruz County is partly a bedroom community for Silicon Valley engineers, who wind their way along Highway 17 over the mountain between Santa Cruz and…
18 min
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Tracking Your Package
When I started Celebrations Wine Club about 18 years ago with direct mail marketing, a friend said, “You should have a website.” I replied, “What’s that?”…
2 min
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Vignalta – Italian Winery July 2011
Lucio Gomiero’s narrative is different from those that normally unfold in these pages, no family castles, no countless generations of wine makers or grape growers, not…
8 min
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Terre Rouge Wines – California Winery of the Month July 2011
Many people are eating differently now than they did ten to 15 years ago, emphasizing greens and grains in their diets at the expense of meat.…
14 min
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Prognosis for 2011: Increase in Fine Wine Consumption
Based on a survey of 600 wineries and on how it understands the economy, Silicon Valley Bank is predicting that you will buy 11 to 15…
4 min
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Castello di Ama, La Poderina, Luiano & Bigi – Italian Wineries June 2011
Castello di Ama sits 12 miles northeast of Siena in the hills of Gaiole. This is the heart of Chianti Classico, a bucolic rolling landscape of…
7 min
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Robledo Family Winery – California Winery of the Month June 2011
Today, just 25 wineries in California are owned by Latin American immigrants. Considering that the wine industry depends for its very existence on thousands of vineyard…
12 min