Vintner Susan Sokol-Blosser recollects how she and then-husband Bill drove cross-country in a camper to Oregon in the 1970s to plant vines and make wine (with no experience). Today, Sokol-Blosser is an esteemed organic winery known for world-class Pinot Noir. Her memoir is The Vineyard Years. Matilde Poggi, owner of Le Fraghe in Bardolino near Lake Garda, discusses her Chiaretto, Garganega and Bardolino wines and role as President of the Federation of the Independent Italian Winegrowers.

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