Welcome to Scarola Vineyards, a small Long Island wine producer dedicated to honoring and sustaining a family tradition begun generations ago in Bari, Italy, a port city on the Adriatic Sea where my ancestors toiled as farmers and winemakers. In 1947, my father came from Sannicandro di Bari to the United States, where a view of the New York City skyline through an arched window in the Great Hall at Ellis Island promised freedom and a better life. A representation of that window appears on our wine label, its gold background symbolizing my father’s belief that America was the land of golden opportunity.
