Len and Marty Brutocao |
Winemaking traditions often begin around the table.
Brutocao Cellars’ roots go back three generations
to a Venice, Italy dinner table.
When the Brutocao family came to the New World
and married into the Bliss family of farmers, it
was only natural that they would combine their
passions and become grape growers and winemakers.
Today, the family still blends their Italian heritage
with their rural agricultural lifestyle to make
some of California's finest wines.
Grandfather Irv Bliss purchased our Mendocino
County
property in 1943. The Brutocao family released
their first wine with the 1980 vintage. Shortly
thereafter, they chose the Lion of St. Mark,
modeled after the lion on top of St. Mark's Cathedral
in
Venice, Italy, as their symbol of family tradition
and quality. That quality comes from the location
of their 400 acres of vineyards in southern Mendocino
County.
The Brutocao family tradition of serving wine
at the table means wines are produced with
good food and good friends in mind.
|
