OUR WINE MAKERS:

Tanaro is proud to announce the inaugural release of wines from five producers that captures the beauty and tradition of wines from the Alsace region of France and the Piedmonte and Tuscany regions of Italy. Olek Bondonio, Andrea Bosco, Davide Germano, Yvette and Michel Beck-Hartweg and Nicolò Casini, represent a new wave of young vintners that have adopted methods that are as old as the land that they farm. These exclusive  wine makers approach their craft with tremendous passion for the tradition of their forefathers. They are setting the standard for today’s wines of the Piemonte and Alsace areas. Though it is tempting to call them the “young turks”,, such a term connotes an air of modernity that contradicts the traditionalist approach to wine making that each embodies.
  
It is our pleasure to introduce to America:

Bondonio......Bosco Agostino......Germano Angelo......Beck-Hartweg
Bindi Sergardi

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Azienda Agricola Olek Bondonio



Olek Bondonio is a decorated Italian snowboarding champion who traded the thrills of conquering the snowy mountains for the thrills he now creates from the grapes grown on the hills of the Bondonio family estate – La Berchialla (pronounced La-BERK-ee-al-lah.) This estate has been in the family for more than 200 years and has always produced excellent grapes.  In fact, it was an ancestor of the Bondonio family from La Berchialla – Gernal Guglielmo Como—who was instrumental in the founding of “Barbaresco’s Corporate Wine Cellar,” which today is the well-known communal producer Produtorri del Barbaresco.

While some of the grapes from the family’s estate still find their way to the Produttori, Olek selects the finest grapes for the production of three wonderful estate-grown and bottled offerings. 


To learn more about the history of La Berchialla, please visit www.olekbondonio.it

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Bosco Agostino

For over fifty years, Pietro Bosco took great care in the production of Barbera, Dolcetto and Nebbiolo grapes but limited the production of his own wine to meet only the needs of his friends and family. Thirty years ago his son Agostino joined him in establishing the Bosco winery as a commercial enterprise. Today, Andrea Bosco follows in his father and grandfather’s footsteps and produces some of the most traditional, highly structured wines you will ever taste in the Piemonte.

Though previously an unknown entity in the United States, wines from the Bosco cellars have gained rave reviews throughout Europe. The international wine magazine Decanter awarded the 2004 Barbera a perfect “5 out of 5 stars” while noting the high acidity and velvety soft tannins of the wine.  The 2005 offering was again awarded a perfect score of 5-stars by the Danish wine e-magazine Vinavisen. The Barolo produced from the vines located in La Morra have also received lofty recognition.  In 2008, the Austrian publication Falstaff rewarded the 2004 Barolo a score of 91/100.


To learn more about the history and philosophy of the Bosco Winery, please visit their website: http://www.barolobosco.com/eng/azienda_Bosco_Agostino.htm

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Germano Angelo

Truly the jewel of our portfolio, we couldn’t have chosen a better producer that captures the essence of the Barbera and Nebbiolo grapes. Celebrating more than a century of quality wine making, Davide Germano is dedicated to meeting and exceeding the high standards set forth by his ancestors, including his father, Angelo II. From this family run and operated estate, we offer luscious wines that not only drink well now, but each will improve with patient cellaring.

For more information, visit this La Morra winery: www.germanoangelo.com

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Yvette and Michel Beck-Hartweg's Winery in
Dambach La Ville on the Alsace Wine Road in France

For more information about the winery visit
http://beckhartweg.free.fr/cave/beckhartwegscellar.html#anchor-top

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Bindi Sergardi

Bindi Sergardi is a farm which has stayed in the same family since the 1400s and has been passed from one generation to the next in natural succession. It has undergone all the phases of good agricultural practice in use over the centuries and has now had to accept its transformation into a family company, justified and made necessary by the dimensions of a property which comprises over a thousand hectares.

The lay of the land does not consent extensive cultivations in this day and age, but imposes a search for niche products of high quality, vocation and imagination. A natural consequence of this is that the members of the family who today run the farm (represented by two generations: Nicolò Casini and his daughter Alessandra) have emphasized two main sectors, namely the production of fine wine and the breeding of thoroughbred race horses, with a side line of olive oil from our hills in Chianti.

The XXI century has also imposed a search for a greater profit in selling our products and the most logical answer was to create a commercial activity to distribute the farm’s production. Thus the brand Bindi Sergardi was born, a name from the maternal side of our family, which shall assume the responsibility and possibly the honors which may emerge from the direct marketing of the goods which we have learned to produce in long years of hard work and which we hope to learn to distribute in the centuries to come.

For more information about the winery visit
http://www.bindisergardi.it/inglese/pages/i_vini.htm

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