Grape: Sangiovese Region: Tuscany, Italy Farming: Organic Perched on the highest hill in the rugged Northwest corner of Montalcino, Castello di Romitorio stands like a guardian over the Brunello DOCG zone. One of the most famous living artists, Sandro Chia, acquired the property in 1984. The purchase included the Castello Romitorio farm which was re-deditcated to the production of Montalcino DOCs. Today Sandro’s son Filippo Chia is the owner and winemaker of the estate. Sand

Grape: Zweigelt Region: Weinland, Austria Farming: Organic Christina grew up with her sister at a mixed family run farm of her parents and grandparents, cultivating different grains, corn, sugar beets, breeding pigs and growing some vines. Giving a helping hand almost everywhere on the farm, she fell in love with the wine production very early on. Christina loved being in the vineyards, helping in the cellar and telling their customers the stories behind the wines. So, it was

Grape: Picpoul Region: Languedoc, France Farming: Sustainable Picpoul de Pinet is the only white wine appellation in the Languedoc, and it’s on a roll right now. The wine is called Picpoul de Pinet, but the grape variety is actually Piquepoul blanc, and there are 1400 hectares of it grown on mostly limestone-based soils. Bruno uses only certified organic and/or sustainably farmed fruit and production practices to handcraft the finest environmentally sensitive wines. The wine’

Grape: Xinomavro Region: Amyndeon, Greece Farming: Sustainable Kir-Yianni was founded in 1997 by its namesake, Yiannis Boutaris, a towering figure in Greek wine (and, until recently, mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city). Based in Naoussa, its vineyards spread from Naoussa over to Amyndeon, on the western side of Mount Vermion in Greece’s far northwest. At the time Yiannis Boutaris struck out on his own, he was leaving his family’s Boutari Wine Group (founded