Groppo
Hillside wine hamlet of dry-stone terraces, home to the cooperative winery pressing Cinque Terre and Sciacchetra.
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This guide to Groppo, a hillside hamlet above Manarola in the Cinque Terre, starts with a hidden stream that gave the place its name but stays out of sight from the road. It traces how, until a carriage road finally arrived in the nineteen seventies, roughly forty families here reached the world only on foot or by mule, hauling grapes, stone and water up and down the mountain themselves. You'll hear how those families raised thousands of dry-stone terraces by hand into slopes so steep locals still call the farming heroic, and how in nineteen eighty-two they pooled their vineyards into a cooperative. Listen for how that shared effort still shapes what comes out of Groppo today.
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