High School Wine Wins

I have been meaning to post a link to this article for a while, for the benefit of our American friends.

http://www.iltamtam.it/2015/04/25/il-grechetto-dellistituto-agrario-e-il-migliore-ditalia/

You know by now that high schools in Italy have a career focus.  Todi hosts one of the oldest and most famous agricultural high schools in the nation, Istituto technico agrario Ciuffelli.  It has been a state school for over 150 years and is housed in a former monastery that dates from the 1200's.

The article announces that the school has won first place in the nation for its grechetto, a white wine from this region.  It was in competition with wines from all of the other institutes of agriculture or wine in the nation at the annual "Bacchus and Minerva" competition.

Michael

Update: I was talking to a friend about it and he asked whether I had ever bought any of the school wine.  No, I hadn't, and of course I had to ask where one would do so.  Duh: you buy it at the cantina at the school.