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 | Dec 23, 2021 | Wine. Business. Life.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES REMAINS TODAY One of the vivid memories of my childhood is walking into my grandmother’s kitchen on Christmas Eve morning and seeing live eels swimming in a big pot on the counter. Later that day, they would become one...
by Michael Votto | Dec 6, 2021 | Wine. Business. Life.
FAMILY TRADITIONS WITHSTAND THE TEST OF TIME In these days of never-ending technology, busy schedules, long work hours, countless activities (at least before the pandemic) and more recently a period of home quarantine, I find that family traditions mean more to me...