Meet the Makers

FROM OUR FEATURED SMALL FAMILY FARMS & CO-OPS.

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Meet Pauline Lapierre

She’s a vignerons indépendants in Bordeaux making artisan wines at a great price…

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Owner/winemaker at Bocale, a small estate in Umbria producing Montefalco Sagrantino, Trebbioano Spoletino & more…

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Meet Bart Fawbush, winemaker of obscure varietals from Washington State…

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Pictured is Katie Santora of Chehalem Winery & her team. From the PNW to the Old World, check out our featured winemakers & proprietors…

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Laurence Rigal, winemaker at Château du Grand Caumont, commutes between Paris where she …

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After the end of World War II, a young Giampaolo Parpinello started picking grapes for his father, …

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We visited this part of France in 2006 when our girls were little, staying in a little pension in Suzette about 15 minutes away…

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Heading northwest out of Vienna until you're about 10k short of the Czech border, you find relatively flat farmland with small rural villages…

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We arrived in the Cortina village square at dusk after driving over the Brenner Pass in Austria and then down through the Alps, over Bozen (Bolzano)…