{"id":13171,"date":"2016-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banfi.it\/uncategorized\/addio-a-harry-mariani-il-fondatore-di-castello-banfi-a-lui-si-deve-il-successo-del-brunello-negli-usa\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:26:20","slug":"farewell-to-harry-mariani-the-founder-of-castello-banfi-to-whom-we-owe-the-success-of-brunello-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banfi.it\/eng\/addio-a-harry-mariani\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Harry Mariani, the founder of Castello Banfi. To him we owe the success of Brunello in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Mariani, founder with his brother John of the Banfi winery in Montalcino, died on 5 January in Huntington (NY) at the age of 78. He was born in New York on 21 January 1937.<\/p>\n<h2>Farewell to Harry Mariani<\/h2>\n<p>In the Seventies and Eighties of the last century, the two brothers had the intuition to import Lambrusco from Cantine Riunite, which soon became a fixed presence on American tables, so much so that in 1983, with 11 million cases, it became the number one imported wine in the US. Thanks to this commercial success, Harry and John wanted to invest in Italy and entrusted themselves to Ezio Rivella who, in 1977, bought almost 2000 hectares in Montalcino, giving rise to an unrepeatable deal in terms of the amount of capital that Castello Banfi represents.<\/p>\n<p>The new Italo-American company was ideally placed for the diffusion of Brunello, until then little known, in the US market. Success that was to come in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.banfi.it\/eng\/news\/harry-the-man-who-launched-brunello-in-the-usa\/\">Harry<\/a> has always been the mind behind all administrative, sales and marketing activities of the company, contributing to the transformation of Banfi Products Corp from a small family business in upstate New York to one of America's largest wine importing companies.<\/p>\n<p>Mariani leaves behind his wife Anne, his daughters Ginny Kitt and Katy Goodrich, and his son James, who together with Cristina Mariani-May, John's daughter and Harry's granddaughter, runs Banfi.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Tre Bicchieri of 07-01-2016, edited by Andrea Gabbrielli)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Mariani, fondatore con il fratello John dell\u2019azienda Banfi di Montalcino, \u00e8 morto lo scorso 5 gennaio a Huntington (NY) all\u2019et\u00e0 di 78 anni. Era nato a New York il 21 Gennaio 1937. Addio a Harry Mariani Negli anni Settanta e Ottanta dello scorso secolo i due fratelli avevano avuto l\u2019intuizione di importare negli Usa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Addio a Harry Mariani - Banfi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Addio a Harry Mariani, il fondatore di Castello Banfi. A lui si deve il successo del Brunello negli USA. 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