Here’s a story about an Italian badass Countess from the Middle Ages, Matilde di Canossa who is considered one of the most powerful women of her day and age. Read on to find out how she was able to dominate in a male dominated world… and how she helped shape italian wine as we know it today.

Flying over the Hermosa Beach coastline Luca Manderino saw a sign that would change his life…a for sale sign attached to a beautiful restaurant on the beach that very soon afterwards would become his own…

As the saying goes ‘like mother like daughter’…the women of Vigna Petrussa have been following in the footsteps of their mothers and joining in on the family’s wine business.

The vineyards of Vigna Petrussa have been in the family for several generations, but it wasn’t until Hilde’s mother, Giuseppina, started to make wine from her father’s vineyards, in the north eastern Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy near the Slovenian border, that the Vigna Petrussa winery was born….

Passion, love, and the desire to prove to the world that a great Lambrusco could exist convinced Raffaella and her husband Giuseppe to risk it all.

Antonella Manuli, owner and founder of La Maliosa Farm and Winery and Olive Mill, first started in the wine industry over a decade ago when she was inspired to produce a wine that not only exemplified superior quality but was also made in a sustainable manner.

In our interview with Patti Mitchell of Ojai Pacific View, her passion and love of wine really come to the forefront!