We've made Barbera from Al Tollini's grapes for seven vintages. These Gold Medal-winning wines have consistently won accolades in the press and we make no secret in our newsletters of where the grapes are grown. We like to share the wines' honors with the grape growers which means we sometimes inadvertently spark competition from other wineries who want to purchase grapes we've touted. Al, like us, had overestimated his crop in 2019 and as a consequence, after others had picked, we only received a third of what we had hoped to purchase.

---