Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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Italian for a business. An azienda agricola is a farm, the equivalent of a French domaine, and the phrase should appear on a wine label only if the grapes were grown and the wine produced on that estate; an azienda vinicola, on the other hand, may buy in grapes from elsewhere, while an azienda vitivinicola combines both activities.