Recognition, Articles,
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FORBES
Wine And Money: Votto Vines Looks To Grow In 2015
Fresh off of its success in landing a spot on Forbes Magazine’s America’s Most Promising Companies list for 2015, Votto Vines Importing is looking ahead to surpass the $10 million milestone this year.

AXIAL
Axial Member Spotlight: Votto Vines — From the Vineyards of Italy to the Inc. 500
How does an M&A deal lawyer become a wine importer overnight? At this year’s flagship Axial Concord conference in NYC, Axial CEO Peter Lerhman talked to Michael Votto, president and chairman of Votto Vines, about starting and growing his wine importing business. (VIDEO INCLUDED)

WINE BUSINESS MONTHLY
Progressive Wine Entrepreneur Mike Votto Selected to Connecticut Magazine’s 40 Under 40
Votto Vines Importing, a rapidly expanding wine importing and marketing company, has announced that its CEO and president, Mike Votto, was recently selected to the Connecticut Magazine annual list of the 40 emerging business leaders under 40.

REPUBLICAN AMERICAN
Sports Gave Cheshire Vintners a Competitive Edge in Business
A casual conversation around the family swimming pool led to a part-time business that has since grown into a multimillion-dollar endeavor for six members of the sports-minded Votto family.

ITALIAN AMERICAN
Votto Vines: Old World Values, New World Visions
In 2008, in the middle of the nation’s greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, five young entrepreneurs in New Haven, Connecticut, ranging in age from 23 to 30, decided to launch a wine importing and distribution company that also featured agritourism.

REsource
Why Are Real Estate Funds Still So Complicated?; The Early Borrower
The real estate mortgage finance market has recently been turned on its head by a series of events precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

AMBASSADOR
Dual Citizenship: One Family’s Expression of Italian-American Pride
“As a student of Italian history, the oldest member of our family’s third generation and the unofficial family genealogist, I was thrilled when NIAF began an initiative to promote dual citizenship in 2006.” — Michael Votto

AMBASSADOR
Researching Italian Ancestry: The Search for Family and Adventure
If you’re interested in researching your Italian family history, then you are in good company. Overall interest in Italian genealogy has grown over the past 15 years. (Written by Michael Votto)