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PROFILE

Wine business

overflowing

with new ideas

By Brian Rodnick

Buon Vino Manufacturing Inc.

Innovation is the cornerstone of What the senior Tudisco did was create a to piping and different pumps.”
success at Buon Vino Manufac- whole new way to filter homemade wine His efforts paid off and resulted in the cre-
and all it took was a visit to a friend’s win-
turing Inc. ery in Italy. At the winery Tudisco, who was ation of the Super Jet filtration system that
Cambridge’s first certified Master Plumber, would become the company’s flagship
The Cambridge-based family-owned busi- saw the large filtration system used in fil- product.
ness was founded on the fortitude of the tering the wine and came up with an idea “At the time it made perfect sense,” says
late Onofrio "Fred" Tudisco, who virtually to manufacture a scaled-down version of Peter, referring to his father’s efforts to en-
revolutionized the home wine-making in- a similar system to assist people in making sure home winemakers achieve commercial
dustry in Canada. their own wines at home. quality success.
“He didn’t have the schooling here nor did “This was a market that was totally off the He says when his father first began the busi-
he have the language skills, but he was a radar, other than if you had a neighbour ness, there were approximately half a mil-
pretty innovative person,” says Peter Tu- who was Italian, or Portuguese who was lion people of Italian descent living in To-
disco, who was there in the beginning when making wine,” says Peter. “He started in ronto and Hamilton and that many of them
his father started the business in 1981. “It’s the basement of his home and tinkered for were making their own wine.
pretty amazing what he did.” months because as a plumber he had access
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