California Internship

Why come to the US? Don't they make wine in Italy, better wine?

Don't answer a question with another question....that's what we say here in Italy...

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I don't understand why you would want to come to California. I want to come back to Italy. My grandparents left there 90 years ago.

You might have better luck at one of the more US-centric web based boards. The forum at

You might also try the forums at wineloverspage.com and erobertparker.com, both have CA winemakers who participate.

Non rispondergli.

Aber wahr!

Come rompi le p....

Pane al pane, vino al vino

You see, UC? That is why YOU want to "go back" (well.. maybe just "go", unless you are older than 90) to Italy (because you were raised in a place distant from there), and that is why Sebastiano and friend want to find a stage in some California winery (because they studied and grew up in Italy, so they want to enlarge their personal and professional horizons). People may call this "mobility". Now you know it, and you may want to try and help those guys, will you?

I cannot imagine why they would want to come here. Not in my wildest dreams would I want to spend time in California, except in the wine country, and what if you want to go to a city? There's no Pisa or Florence or Rome or Napoli in California!

Viticulture and

Bingo. That is exactly where they want to go, if you have read their request for informations. No big drama here, just an applicant for a stage in a California winery. Which -I bet- should be more or less located in... the wine country.

I can't imagine traveling all the way to Italy to visit tourist trap cities you listed. Heck, theres no San Francisco in Italy with that logic!

Thank goodness for that!

But why come to California wine country when almost ALL of Italy is "wine country"? This is insane!

Much of California is wine country. Italy mostly produces jug wines anyways!! Besides, Italy doesn't produce very many great Zinfandels (Primotivo). Heck, Italy wants to use the name Zinfandel just so they can look like California!!

Whats stopping you? You waiting for another coup so you can be part of the new government and make a law for free wine for all?

lol

And Ed, you missed the mustard blooming in Napa, the fog sneaking up through Carneros, the orchards in bloom along I-5 heading S out of SF in late Feb.

Best day of wine tasting that I have every had was Napa one cool, wet Feb, when I was the only vehicle on 29 and I had to wake up the tasting room personnel. They all brought out their "library" wines. I do not like to do tastings without my wife, or friends, but I was alone, except for the winery dogs, sleeping on the door steps. The rain fell and the fog hung on the vineyards amd obscured the Mayacamus Ridge. Beauty was all around, even though I was by myself. The wines flowed, and NO ONE even thought of charging me the posted "tasting charge." I walked many bare vineyards with my hosts in my rain slicker, and loved every second of it. It was like doing the Royal War Museum with no one around and a personal guide, who loved the place, and had a sense of history.

Yeah, beauty is all around - IT, US, FR. It's up to us to find it.

Hunt