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Meat Raffle Fundraiser 2024 White Wines

Description of White Wines Miniere 2019, produced by Cantina Dell’Angelo, Tufo, Avellino, Campania; Angelo Muto makes a natural/organic wine with Greco di Tufo grapes in which he adds only a small trace of sulfites at bottling. Picoli 2018, produced by Cantina Bambinuto, Santa Paolina, Avellino, Campania; Marilena Aufiero makes a

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Meat Raffle Fundraiser 2024 Red Wine

Description of Wines Aglianico di Baal 2018, produced by Casa di Baal, Az, Agr. Macchia, Salerno, Campania; Francesca Salerno makes a natural/organic wine with Aglianico grapes in which there is a trace of sulfites added at bottling. Gioviano 2018, Il, produced by Cancelliere Az. Vitivinicola, Montemararo, Avellino, Campania; Rita Pizza

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November 17, 2023 Wine Tasting

On Friday November 17, 2023, we will be holding a private tasting in connection with raising funds for a public charity. The wines to be tasted will be from various regions of Southern Italy. All wines are from producers that abide by organic or biodynamic and/or natural/low intervention practices.  See my May

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Salvatore Magnoni – Natural Winemaker

I have translated the article to English with Google Translate. At the end of the Italian version there is short You Tube video on Salvatore. Here is the link to the You Tube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_HnLwDfxo. And at the end of this blog article are my notes from our 2015 with

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110 Wineries Visited

After our most recent trip to Italy we have now visited 110 different wine producers in Southern Italy. These meetings provide us insights as to the winemakers’ farming practices (biodynamic/organic/sustainable/conventional) and cellar practices (100% natural/natural-low intervention/low intervention/organic/conventional – the difference between natural – low intervention and low intervention is that

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Thanksgiving Day Wines

To assist family and friends in their selection of which wines to drink on Thanksgiving Day, and to avoid a 30 minute description of each wine before you select a bottle (thank you Kenz!) here is a guide to the various offerings. All the wines are either EU certified organic

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Advocates Sixth Annual Gala November 10, 2022 Wines to be Auctioned

NOTE – the Silent Auction to bid on these 12 bottles of eco-friendly wines is now open. Please go to this link to bid https://cbo.io/bidapp/index.php?slug=advocates&fbclid=IwAR1SUZ2JuCnwHASZQTcfnm6ZfjZM8wwFmgEqdBZeWrybGieQjNIXiNtQhGQ     On November 10, 2022 Advocates, Inc., a charitable organization that champions people who face developmental, mental health or other life challenges, is hosting its

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