by Michael Votto | Feb 1, 2024 | Wine. Business. Life.
Fifteen years ago this week, on January 27, 2009, we made our first sale and Votto Vines was born. Where has the time gone? In October 2006, my wife and I visited a little winery in the Chianti Classico region of Tuscany. We loved the wines and asked the...
by Michael Votto | Oct 14, 2023 | Wine. Business. Life.
YES, JUST DO IT … PERIOD! Greetings Friends. Hope you and your families are well. We’ll call this my public service announcement blog for the year. Over the past 12 months or so, my wife, many of our friends and I have turned 45 years old. What, you may...
by Michael Votto | Jan 7, 2023 | Wine. Business. Life.
FIND WHAT DEFINES YOUR TRUE SELF … Happy New Year, friends. This may come as a surprise, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. Most people that know me would say otherwise, but I would have to disagree. My iPhone currently has 2296 contacts. Sure seems like a...
by Michael Votto | Nov 8, 2022 | Wine. Business. Life.
LIFE IS A SERIES OF MOMENTS, SOME BIG, SOME SMALL … … some happy, some sad. Pause for a minute and think of some of the consequential moments in your life. I have a few that stick out in my mind. Going to Disney World as a kid, summer vacations in Cape Cod...
by Michael Votto | Sep 15, 2022 | The Wine Entrepreneur
The Wine Entrepreneur™. The first and only wine reviews platform to take into account the business and economic factors associated with each particular wine. Having founded and scaled one of the fastest growing wine importing companies in the US along with having...