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Spring 2023

Spring brought some great news: we are preparing another shipment since our wines are selling faster than expected. This is a nice problem to have for a start-up that has been in the market for less than a year. We are so fortunate to have you as clients. We are constantly learning and have signed with a new shipping company to help with the logistics and reduce unnecessary complexity by leveraging the Baltimore port.

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Winter 2023

We closed 2022 exhausted, yet fulfilled. Even though it was hard work, the first six months in business brought immense gratification. We introduced our wines to so many people as we drove more than 10,000 miles across Maryland and DC. Fun fact: this distance is greater than a round trip flight between Washington and Rome! But it was…

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Autumn 2022

It shouldn’t be a surprise that importing small-production wines means not being able to reorder them when they sell out. So here we are…finding ourselves with a dwindling inventory and some out-of-stock wines that are not even available in Italy any longer. We are excited, though, that our second shipment just arrived in Maryland…

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Summer 2022

Marco spent the summer traveling around Italy scouting new wineries and visiting our producers to taste the new vintages and try any new varietals. We are excited to add two new winemakers to the Fall lineup: La Vela from Marsala, Sicilia and Le Banchette from Valpolicella, Veneto…

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Our Beginnings

The big idea came in December 2020 when Cristina and Marco Doria decided to start a wine importing business together. However, it was not until April 2021 they could actually kick off their venture: Cristina was still working, and Marco had to creatively find a way to come to the United States when COVID prevented foreigners…

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