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Wine Tasting in Benevento

Guess who our tour guide was?! Aldo!! yay! We were so happy to see him. He must be the only tour guide though the Navy because he was on all the tours we did. Fantastic! It was such a beautiful day to be at a vineyard. It rained yesterday so today was just perfect. Since Aldo seems to know all of Italy, we got to meet a lot of people and they took really good care of us and were super excited that we were there. Everyone we met spoke Italian so Aldo had to translate but they were all super patient and nice, unlike some people in Pozzuoli where they just don't want to deal with Americans. We got to try the grapes straight off the vines and they were so delicious! They are all organic at this vineyard and don't use any chemicals at all so it was safe to eat the grapes as is. Its against the law for them to use chemicals on their plants, which is good. 11 bottles of wine...After the 3rd I started just tasting it and dumping th