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From Wafers to "Bio" Wine Pioneer: Tenute Loacker

Tucked under rocky peaks above Bolzano in Alto Adige is the quiet oasis of “Schwarhof”, the Loacker family biodynamic vineyard. Rainer Loacker worked for twenty years in the family chocolate wafer business before deciding to change his lifestyle completely and make organic wine. In 1978, when he bought “Schwarhof”, he was a lone organic pioneer. […]

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