Tabarrini puts out a spread of food to go with the wine. They have a fabulous tasting room, complete with video presentations. Remarkably, they graft grape vines onto elm trees. Who would have known! But we were pleased to learn that we could order their wines from California - we just can't have them shipped to Texas.
Milziade Antano is much smaller. We specifically wanted to visit this one because we'd had a bottle of their Montefalco Rosso when we were in Spoleto five years earlier. We were so taken with it we photographed the label and had been looking for it ever since.
It's a very small operation - especially when compared with Tabarrini. Someone saw us pull in and came to meet us. He took us into the building with all the barrels where a small table was set up with their red wines. We had a taste, he answered our questions and we bought a couple of bottles for our hosts. As we left, he returned to his work in the vineyard. We learned that their wine is sold in New York and we could order a case, but it was going to be so expensive we might as well go back to Italy. (I miss the days when you could put a bottle of something in your carry on bag!) We also learned that they have replaced the brown label with a white one for the U.S. market, which means that even if we'd found it (which we did not), we probably wouldn't have recognized it because we were looking for the brown label.
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