European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Neighbors or Nefy wrapped in plastic Are ready for refilling at the Colline Pisane italian wine consortium help the Little Guys photos and Story by Lon Cabot Maples Bureau chief a pungent Aroma from fermented spilled wine and uncorked used wine bottles saturated the As Blu Green bottles clinked along an worn conveyor four people moved silently in the Hal flight of the cavernous our operation is not very fancy but it said an old Man As he stuck the end of a Hose into bottle after Topping each one off to a desired level before the bottle moved on and was machine plugged with a the old Man was one of four workers bottling wine at the Cantina Delle Colline a wine cooperative about 10 Miles South of Pisa in the town of Cenaida in Northern were a Small operation by most he our production costs for the wines we make Here must be kept Low enough for the growers in the consortium to see a profit from the wines we the Colline Pisane consortium is one of More than 50 consortium in Italy Tuscany Northern provinces renowned for some of Italy Heartiest the consortium serves 150 grape growers in the Pisa like the thousands of other wine consortium throughout Colline Pisane must absorb processing and production costs of the common Label wines it produces and 6 Magazine june
