Locati family turns long history in Walla Walla Valley into wine dream

Michael F. Locati Lays Down His Hat
January 22, 2015

By ANDY PERDUE AND ERIC DEGERMAN — WINE PRESS NORTHWEST

More than 100 years ago, Joseph Locati came to the New World from Italy and settled in Washington’s Walla Walla Valley.

Here, he met a Frenchman named Peter Pieri, who had brought with him from Corsica some sweet onion seeds. Together, Pieri and Locati planted the first sweet onion field in the valley – which now is world famous for those onions.

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