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Local Tuscan Grapes

Today’s mission is to spread the word on the Hundreds of different small native local Tuscan grapes. In Italy, there’s a great attention to old undiscovered or abandoned grape varieties, arrived in Italy with the Etruscan, Roman or even before

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