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Article: Cucamonga Valley wineries, a family affair
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 29, 2008
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Cucamonga-Guasti wine historian Reno J. Morra can recall when the
scenery in our valley was nothing short of majestic - reminiscent of
Italy's Piedmont region that his parents and other countrymen and
women left behind.
They immigrated to towns named Cucamonga, Etiwanda, Fontana,
Grapeland, Guasti and Wineville, filled with hope and desire for a
better life in a new wine country, and a desire for their children
to become Americans.
"My parents arrived in Guasti in 1934, and they lived and worked
there for 17 years - my father as a foreman for Mr. Guasti's Italian
Vineyard Company, my mother helped with bottling," said Morra of
Alta Loma. "Before I was drafted, I worked summers for the ...