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A Hundred Years Of Gratitude

A Hundred Years Of Gratitude

Giorgio Castellini

You are a child, running around the vines with your brother in late October. There is a lot of activity around you, and you move between the vines with the...

A Hundred Years Of Gratitude

Giorgio Castellini

You are a child, running around the vines with your brother in late October. There is a lot of activity around you, and you move between the vines with the...

Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name

Giorgio Castellini

In 1932, Antonio Tessari dug a cellar by hand and walked away from the cooperative. Ninety years later, his great-nephew Nick and his wife Taylor are planting bamboo forests and...

Call Me By Your Name

Giorgio Castellini

In 1932, Antonio Tessari dug a cellar by hand and walked away from the cooperative. Ninety years later, his great-nephew Nick and his wife Taylor are planting bamboo forests and...

You Can Just Feel It

You Can Just Feel It

Giorgio Castellini

From a family that swapped bottles to settle sibling rivalries 150 years ago, to a Sicilian couple who bet on their land when nobody else would. This is what the...

You Can Just Feel It

Giorgio Castellini

From a family that swapped bottles to settle sibling rivalries 150 years ago, to a Sicilian couple who bet on their land when nobody else would. This is what the...

Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Giorgio Castellini

From Sassicaia's origins as a private experiment to PodereSette, the boutique estate built by a family who arrived in Bolgheri with nothing in 1953; this is the full story of...

Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Giorgio Castellini

From Sassicaia's origins as a private experiment to PodereSette, the boutique estate built by a family who arrived in Bolgheri with nothing in 1953; this is the full story of...

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

Giorgio Castellini

Sicily has been making wine since 4,000 BC, survived Arab rule, phylloxera, and decades of bulk production, and is now one of Italy's most exciting wine regions. From the ancient...

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

Giorgio Castellini

Sicily has been making wine since 4,000 BC, survived Arab rule, phylloxera, and decades of bulk production, and is now one of Italy's most exciting wine regions. From the ancient...

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Giorgio Castellini

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has a papal endorsement, a 17th-century poet declaring it king of all wines, and a winemaker who is equally serious about music. This is the story...

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Giorgio Castellini

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has a papal endorsement, a 17th-century poet declaring it king of all wines, and a winemaker who is equally serious about music. This is the story...