Thursday,
9 May 2024
One family’s journey to Pizzini Wines in Whitfield

ROBERTO and Rosetta Pizzini were among the nearly 200,000 Italians to head to Australia in the 1950s.

They left their home in the Trentino region of northern Italy and settled in the Myrtleford area, where they worked together with Roberto’s brothers and their wives to build a new life.

They began as sharefarmers in the booming Australian tobacco industry, trying to acclimatise in their new envi...

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