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Drink Free. Drink Organic Wines!

Drink Free. Drink Organic Wines! Free of Pesticides, Herbicides, Fungicides, In-organic Fertilizers and Chemical additives.   Organic farmers do not use chemicals to kill weeds, insects or molds. Instead they...

Vendemmia With Edo: Picking Grapes In Chianti

In September 2011 I was lucky enough to be studying Italian in Umbria at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, just a two or three hour train ride from nearly...

The Advocate and The Winemaker - A Perfect Fami...

  The Most Wonderful Place on Earth, Montepulciano, Italy There are a few lucky times in life when you feel truly at home. I have had the pleasure of feeling...

Apellation Addendum I: Italy

I've decided the last post on apellations wasn't fulfilling enough so I'd like to take it a step further and confuse you a bit more. There's just too many countries...

DOC? DOCG? DO? What?: A Brief on Apellation Reg...

You may have been out for dinner, at your local wine store, or here on our site and seen the acronyms: "DOC", "DO", "AOC", "QbA", etc. on your wine labels....

Producer Spotlight: Perrini

Vito and Mila Perrini Teaching Local Kids About Healthy Eating Brother and sister duo Vito and Mila Perrini saved their failing family farm in the late 1990's. Generations of ancestors...