Not only does VITIS store all of its wines in a state-of-the-art climate controlled facility to ensure quality, it will also store your wines there, a service they claim no other online retailer offers.

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When rival producers in California, like Gallo and Italian Swiss Colony, began selling wine under their own national brands, Sands created Richards, concocting it not from the Vitis vinifera grapes used in France and California but the generic grapes grown in upstate New York.

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