Cacciatore Fine Wines and Olive Oil CORPORATION (CWO) is one of a large family of corporations, operating worldwide in the agro-food industry. All corporations are wholly owned and operated by the Cacciatore family.
Vincenzo, the founder, was born in Sicily in 1942. With origins in farming, he moved to Montreal to realize his dream, to start up his own company specializing in distributing the best worldwide fresh produce he personally selected.
Early in 1970, Vincenzo visited California. He was so impressed by the potential of the land that he wanted to start his first table grapes vineyards.
During the nineties when Sam, his son, started getting involved in the family business, Vincenzo realized his dream was not yet complete. So, he began planting wine grape vineyards with the goal of founding his own winery in 1999. Still the dream was not complete as expressed by the winery name: Cacciatore Fine Wines & Olive Oil Corporation.
At present, the Cacciatore Family farms more than 2,200 acres of prime agricultural land consisting of table grapes, wine grapes, olive trees and an exclusive nursery of premium grape varieties and rootstocks.
CWO’s advanced equipment enables the master winemaker to conduct a variety of fermenting procedures, including rotary maceration, piston-punch fermentation, pump-over fermentation and carbonic maceration, which maximizes Natural Character. The winery’s laboratory constantly monitors wine evolution. All tanks are displayed on computer screens in the lab, allowing the master winemaker and lab technician to monitor the volume, temperature, variety and vintage of each tank. The state-of-the-art bottling line can handle 750 ml and 1.5 liter bottles and can bottle 2,000 x 750 ml per hour. The line is equipped with a sterile filtering system to prevent yeast and bacteria contamination and keep impurities from falling into the wine. Each bottle is rinsed and ozone sterilized, and argon co2 injections prior to filling help avoid oxidation. Other features of the bottling line include a wine gravity filler, a corking head with vacuum system, polylaminated capsulers, and rotary auto-adhesive four-way labeling.
