We have, at long last, settled on a winery name and in doing so we’ve happily stayed true to our roots as a family run company.
Copozzi was the last name of my great grandmother Maria Giovanna who was the first of our clan to make wine, a continent away in Pennsylvania. Maria Giovanna would have unspecified white grapes shipped in from California during prohibition and she would ferment them in her basement. According to my grandmother Isabella, she was quite the little winemaker, selling quarts to the locals and keeping a careful ledger in her notebook.
In honor of her efforts and in an attempt to stay true to our family roots, we decided that the name Capozzi Winery is the best fit for our fledgling operation. Legal paperwork is underway and in an effort to perhaps assist other wannabe winery owners I’ll do my best to document the process.
Congratulations, a very personal & appropriate name, as it should have been!
Just came across your blog today. It’s a refreshing take on wine blogging. I think you can’t go wrong with an Italian family name, too for the winery..coming from a proud italian.
Well congratulations. Damn that must be exciting. Now you get to start working on logos, labels, letterhead and the rest.
Can’t wait for the wine!!!
Thanks for the kind words guys. Quite looking forward to the label art development. Should be fun.
[...] When we finally arrived at a decision on our winery name, it was made by looking back at our family history. Capozzi Winery is named in honor of my great Grandmother Maria Giovanna who was a bootlegger during the prohibition era. She would ship in grapes from California to make wine in her basement for sale, and keep her sales tallied in a little ledger. As our the first winemaker in the family, we think it’s only fitting to honor her pioneering efforts. [...]
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