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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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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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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
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Mamete Prevostini – Italian Winery May 2011
The Valtellina zone is located in the Al- pine region of Lombardia, where vines cling to steep terraced slopes at 400 to 1000 meters above sea…
7 min
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Old World Winery – California Winery of the Month May 2011
Imagine Giuseppe Martinelli, an immigrant from Friuli in northeastern Italy, homesteading and clearing land for a farm and starting a family in the woody wilderness of…
15 min
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Philip Staley Vineyards & Winery – California Winery of the Month April 2011
After 30 years in the wine business, Philip Staley makes his living exactly the way he wants, something that most of us don’t achieve overnight if…
14 min
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Azienda AgricolaInama & Tenuta Sant’Antonio – Italian Wineries April 2011
In the 1950s, estate founder Giuseppe Inama began purchasing small vineyards in the heart of the Soave Classico region, using nothing more than his savings. His…
7 min
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Derby Wine Estates – California Winery of the Month March 2011
Life is long, too long at least for just one career. Ray Derby says he shared similar interests with his father and naturally followed him into…
12 min