Cantina Sociale or Cooperativa

A growers’ cooperative cellar. Italy, like France and Spain, has hundreds of wine coops, some of which make good but rarely great wine.

In addition to top notch wine grapes, the region of Walla Walla is known for growing:

A. Apples

B. Hops

C. Onions

D. Potatoes

Walla Walla in southeastern Washington is perhaps the only wine region in the world that is renowned for both its delicious red wines and its delicious, jumbo-size sweet onions—about 19.5 million pounds (9 million kilograms) of which are harvested each year. Like the Vidalia ones from Georgia and the Maui ones from Hawaii, Walla Walla onions are low in sulfur (the compound that makes you cry) and so sweet they can be eaten out of hand, as you would an apple.

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