Essential Winery

Penns Woods founder Gino Razzi was born in Abruzzo, Italy but has lived in Pennsylvania since the 1960s. He made his name first as a wine importer, first as leader of Viva Vino and later WinesU, both the sole importer for Cantina Zaccagnini of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo fame (the ones with the straw tied to the bottle). Razzi later studied under Zaccagnini enologist Concezio Marulli, and in 1997 made the critically acclaimed Zaccagnini Symposium (95pts WS). In 2002 he opened Penns Woods Winery, and over the past two decades has become not only a leading PA winemaker, but a torch bearer for the commonwealth’s wine industry as a whole.

I recently poured the Penns Woods Merlot Reserve at a class I was teaching at What Am I Drinking?! in Bryn Mawr. Not only was it highly regarded, but everyone in the room was quite surprised when I revealed it was from Pennsylvania.

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