Crushing grapes by foot at the St. Gennaro festival 2004 (helped by a member of the Roman Holiday ensemble) |
Among the older Italian-born immigrants home winemakers can still be found among Marabellaís clientele. Tony Marabella, a Cucamonga and San Pedro-based vintner, is also one of the few to still purvey materials necessary for home winemaking, even though today he mostly sells ready-pressed juice or must (=mosto), that is grapes already crushed and delivered for further processing at home (See Home Winemaking). (We do not include wine importers in this section.)
Further reading:
Edward F. Tuttle, "La presenza italiana nello svilippo della vitivinicoltura in California e nel Nord America," La Vigna
Luisa Del Giudice, "'Wine Makes Good Blood:' Wine Culture Among Toronto Italians," in Ethnologies, 2001, Vol. 23, number 1, 1-27 (Cultural history of wine and winemaking among immigrants).