Inside the winery

Life... is wine... and wine... is life.

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July 10th 2010
This morning we left the hotel, all excited and anticipating the day that lay ahead. Mostly because this was our winery tour day. We had been told that the tasting would involve pairing wines with various foods from the region. The bus travelled up some long, winding roads, and stopped us outside a gate on a hillside. We had arrived at the Castello de Verrazano. We walked through the gates ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more