Winemaker Giuseppe Sala of I Selvatici: Respecting the Past and Relishing the Present.

Winemaker Giuseppe Sala of I Selvatici: Respecting the Past and Relishing the Present

Winemaker Giuseppe Sala never had the chance to meet the man after whom he was named. Growing up working on the winery that his grandfather founded, however, Sala would sometimes sense the old man’s presence among the vines. When Sala and his father might grumble about the less-than-ideal weather, it seemed the departed Giuseppe was listening and asserting a loving force to part clouds and withhold rain. Now and then, young Sala’s parents would hear his grandfather’s laugh in his, or catch an uncannily familiar glance from his eyes. In these ways, Sala’s grandfather lives on.

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