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Pellegrini Family Vineyards – California Winery of the Month November 2012
The Pellegrini family has been in almost every phase of the wine business, beginning with Nello and Gino Pellegrini, who were grape merchants during Prohibition and…
14 min
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La Montecchia dei Conti Emo Capodilista, Pojer e Sandri & Schreckbichl Colterenzio – Italian Wineries October 2012
The historic estate of La Montecchia lies in the Euganean hills of the Veneto region, 15 kilometers south of Padua. The Capodilista family can be traced…
9 min
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Everett Ridge Vineyards & Winery – California Winery of the Month October 2012
Stephen Sterling grew up with his three brothers on a cattle ranch in California’s Central Valley. During the summer, they worked from six-thirty in the morning…
13 min
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Cataldi Madonna, Colpetrone & Capestrano – Italian Wineries September 2012
The estate is located in Abruzzo in the village Ofena near L’Aquila. Baron Luigi Cataldi Madonna founded the winery in 1925, and son Antonio expanded it…
6 min
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Carol Shelton Wines – California Winery of the Month September 2012
California winemakers have always looked over their shoulders at what their European counterparts were doing. After all, wine making, wine drinking, and wine literature had at…
15 min
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Cascina Val del Prete, Cascina Ca’Rossa & Daniele Rici – Italian Wineries August 2012
Val del Prete, or in English Valley of the Priest, takes its name from the exiled Bishop of Asti, who lived in this part of the…
8 min
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Graziano Family of Wines – California Winery of the Month August 2012
Nobody needs Tarot cards when they know Greg Graziano. If you want to learn which wines you will love in ten years, just ask him. Listen…
15 min
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Contradi di Taurasi, Villa Dora Winery & La Sibilla – Italian Wineries July 2012
Located in the Campania region, the Lonardo family farms five hectares of vines with organic methods, particularly Alianico in Irpinia’s Taurasi zone. Vineyards are planted at…
6 min
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Rosa d’Oro Vineyards – California Winery of the Month July 2012
University viticulture and enology departments are churning out droves of graduates, who are well prepared with theory and expect to fill in the practice with on-the-job…
15 min
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Selvagrossa, Tenimenti Luigi d’Alessandro & Petimali Sassetti Livo – Italian Wineries June 2012
Located in the Marche region on the Pesaro hills facing the Adriatic Coast, brothers Alberto and Alessandro Taddei have developed the estate that their grandfather first…
6 min