Villa Fassini Trebbiano/chardonnay 2008 750ml Italy Tuscany

From the studio that brought you Sweet Home Alabama comes the extraordinary romantic comedy starring Academy Award nominee Diane Lane. based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book, Under the Tuscan Sun follows San Francisco writer Frances Mayes (Lane) to Italy as a good friend offers her a special gift - ten days in Tuscany. Once there, she is captivated by its beauty and warmth, and impulsively buys and aging, but very charming villa. Fully embracing new friends and local color, she finds...

A companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun , Bella Tuscany is Frances Mayes's passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional heartbreaks of her villa's ongoing restoration. It is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. As spring becomes summer she revives her...

Crafted from wines made with the Dijon clones newly available in Oregon, this wine is comprised from a number of vineyards and wineries, including wines we made ourselves. Almost all of this wine was fermented and aged in stainless steel with malolactic fermentation blocked to maintain brightness. A small portion of this wine did ferment in French oak barrels and underwent malolactic fermentation for a creamy mouthfeel.