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Margie Raimondo, right, owns and operates Raimondo Winery in Mountain Home. Melissa Baurerlein, left, talks about some of the olive oils and balsamic vinegars the winery sells.
wine to sample.
She’d tell her grandpa: “We need to open a winery together.” He’d laugh and say: “Bella Mia, just drink the wine.”
Raimondo drank the wine, fell in love with it, grew up and opened a winery located on the west side of Mountain Home, 1406 Highway 62 West. After 20 years working in marketing in Silicon Valley, she retired in 2005 and started her second career: winemaker, gourmet food creator, and owner of a wine shop.
“My grandfather always said: 'Food is the celebration of life and wine is the extension of that.’ That sums it up. It’s how I grew up. I live that every single day,” she said.
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Margie Raimondo owns and operates Raimondo Winery in Mountain Home.
Her winery pays homage to her Italian heritage: the wine labels are adorned with her family crest; the
wine bears her family name and several varieties she produces are a nod to Italy, like her Sangiovese.
In honor of her grandfather, Raimondo recently had replicas of the picnic tables that Grandpa Marty originally crafted made and planted them outside her business. The last barrel he used to age his wine is housed at the back of her store. The power of his legacy is obvious as she shares stories of him.
Inside Raimondo Winery, there are a plethora of other products: extra virgin olive oil, infused balsamic vinegars, cured olives, mustards, seasonings, barbecue sauces, red sauces and more. Raimondo has her own line of gourmet foods, some are her original recipes, some were her grandmother’s recipes, and others she’s gleaned from traveling around Europe. In 2014, she spent seven months in Italy
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