About Us

Who are we?  

Giuseppe & Alisha Bosco!

 After 10+ amazing years of restaurant ownership in the Vail Valley, we decided to start a new chapter in the midst of a pandemic! Giuseppe had been in the biz for 35 years, and with family time with daughter Gaia (hence the name Terra Madre) so precious, it had become clear that it was time for a change.  Our newest business venture, selling Italian wine & gastronomical products had been a dream for years, ever since we were married at a winery in Tuscany in 2009.  

 Olio Desiderio is from a Piemontese family that has been in the olive oil business for over 60 years. We are delighted to begin our partnership with Noemi Rinaldi and become the first Olio Desiderio importer in the US!  Noemi is a young member of the new generation of the family who is working to take the company to the next level with high quality, artisanal blended and monoculture oils & Piemontese artisanal products. Since they are so unusual and are of high quality, the monoculture (single olive variety) oils are particularly special. 

DISTRIBUTED BY: VINI DI TERRA DISTRIBUTION, LLC

In 2020 Giuseppe and Alisha made the exciting decision to embark on a new journey! Even in difficult times, silver linings can be found, and new, exciting chapters can begin. That is just what happened to us when in the early days of the pandemic, we realized the time had come for us to embark on a new chapter in our lives. After thirty-five years in the restaurant industry for Giuseppe, and over twenty for me, including over ten amazing years we spent together with the Zino Ristorante crew, the pandemic showed us how fragile life is and that it was time to put Gaia and our families in Michigan and Italy first. So, in September 2020, we transformed our lives from restaurant ownership to importers and distributors of fine Italian wines and artisanal food products. We sorely miss the Zino buzz, and of course our wonderful staff and partners, in addition to the guests that have become friends and family to us, but we’ve known since we married at a winery in the heart of Tuscany in 2009 that our future would include a life in the wine industry. 

Our dream has been fulfilled with the creation of two businesses, my company Terra Madre Wine Imports to bring the wines into the US and Giuseppe’s baby, Vini di Terre Distribution to sell the wine. Our companies import and distribute fine Italian Wines from Piedmont, Tuscany, and Sicily, with more regions to follow soon. Selling great Italian wines at Zino piqued our interest in the supply side of the business and we quickly developed a real passion for artisanal Italian wine and a deep appreciation for the work that went into creating organic and sustainably produced wines. Over the years, we enjoyed visiting many producers in Italy and formed close relationships that propelled us into this new business. 

Through conversations with our Italian contacts and consumers here in Colorado we identified a market demand for high quality wines from small to medium producers. We created our companies to help link discerning consumers with boutique wineries that large, nationwide importers and distributors in need of large volumes overlook. We only represent Italian producers that are organic or biodynamic, and are authentic, artisanal, and family-owned with a compelling story to tell. Our philosophy at Terra Madre Wine Imports: “We strive to find unique, small volume products from Giuseppe's homeland, that are otherwise overlooked by large distribution companies. We are committed to working with high quality, artisanal producers that are dedicated to preservation of their terroir and to sustainable craft.”

Gastronomically, we started yet another company called Terra Madre Italiana to import Italian monocultivar olive oils and other Italian food specialties to the United States! Monocultivar olive oils are high quality oils made from only one olive variety, or cultivar, to produce an oil with characteristics unique to the terroir in which the variety is grown. This past year we began our successful partnership with Olio Desiderio, a Piemontese family-owned company that has been in the olive oil business for over sixty years. We are proud to be Olio Desiderio’s first and only United States importer of their excellent olive oils and artisanal Piemontese food products.

We have been thrilled to see this dream of ours come to fruition and are grateful to our consumers and the wine buyers of Colorado who have helped us get off to such a successful start, allowing us the quality time with Gaia and our families that we sought. We discovered silver linings can be found in every storm.  

Our wines and products can now be found at some of the finest restaurants and shops in the Vail Valley, and throughout Colorado!  For more information or to join the Terra Madre Wine Club, please contact me at ciao@terramadrewineimports.com.

Wine made from the heart nourishes the soul. “Il vino fatto con il cuore nutre l’anima.” 

Cin Cin!  Alisha & Giuseppe Bosco