Pictures From Italy

Twenty years of going to the source. These are our own photographs — the olive groves, the balsamic barrels, the truffle woods of Umbria, and the hill towns we keep going back to. Every bottle we sell starts in one of these places.

Pictures from Italy

We've been there.

These are our own photographs — the groves, the cellars, the hill towns, the truffle woods. Twenty years of going to the source, standing in it, and tasting it before we ever put it in a bottle.

  • Mike and Danny seated in an Italian piazza
    Danny and his dad, Mike, in ItalyTwo of the four of us, sitting in the piazza. We go where the food comes from.
  • Gnarled centuries-old olive tree in an Italian grove
    The old olive treeSix hundred years old and still giving fruit.
  • Truffle hunter and dog in an Umbrian oak wood
    The truffle digChristian and Spongee, working the woods. The dog does the finding.
  • Fresh black truffles in paper, just dug in Umbria
    Fresh Umbrian trufflesThis is what they look like before anybody does a thing to them.
  • Umbrian hilltop town with stone buildings
    UmbriaThe hill towns. Nothing up here is in a hurry, and you can taste it.
  • Wooden balsamic aging barrels stacked in an attic in Italy
    Balsamic barrels, in somebody's atticNot a warehouse. Traditional balsamic ages upstairs, through the heat and the cold.
  • Cream-plate olive-oil filter press with brass fittings in an Umbrian mill
    The olive oil pressThe filter that takes the last of the sediment out.
  • Hillside village in the Umbria region of Italy
    Another town, another long lunchWe do a lot of eating on these trips. We call it research.
  • Weathered Italian stone villa, inspiration for the JD label
    The stone that became our labelDee's words: the inspiration for our label was Italian stone.
  • Dee has this one. Waiting on the file.
    The Colosseum
  • Dee has this one. Waiting on the file.
    The Vatican
Where has yours been?

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Our bottles travel. Sunday dinner, the backyard grill, a picnic table three states from here, somebody's kitchen halfway around the world. Take a picture of where yours ended up and send it over — we'd love to see it, and we'll share the good ones right here.

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