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Introducing Monviso Heirloom Garlic From Christopher Ranch

Gilroy, CA (November) — This summer, Christopher Ranch celebrated Monviso, the Italian heirloom garlic at the foundation of the company’s premium garlic tradition, while introducing new packaging that features the Monviso varietal name. Over fifty years ago, Don Christopher, the company founder, came upon the most flavorful variety of garlic he had ever tasted.  As its origins were in the Piedmont area of Italy, he christened the variety “Monviso” for the region’s peaks and immediately set about nurturing the seed on his ranch in California’s Santa Clara Valley. Five decades... Read More