Bottle, Wine
Object number2013.39.3
Made by
Healdsburg Vineyards
Date2000
OriginHealdsburg, CA
MediumWine/Glass/Paper
Credit LineGift of Joseph Costanzo, Jr.
DescriptionSealed colorless glass bottle with White Zinfandel wine intact; gold paper seals bottle. Colored front label has restaurant information, color photo of Costanzo with a plate of mussels standing in front of restaurant, and award information. Backside label describes wine, maker, lists ingredients, and gives a content warning.Dimensions8.375 x 4.125 x 1.75 in. (21.3 x 10.5 x 4.4 cm)MarksColored front label: "The Primadonna Restaurant / [colored photo] Joseph Costanzo, Jr. - Owner"; to right of photo: "Voted the best Italian / Restaurant in Western / Pennsylvania by the / readers of Pittsburgh / Magazine, Pittsburgh / City Paper and the / Pittsburgh Post Gazette."
Backside label has text "2000 / CALIFORNIA / WHITE ZINFANDEL", "VINTED & BOTTLED BY HEALDSBURG VINEYARDS / HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA / ALC. 10.5% BY VOL.", lists ingredients, and gives a content warning.
Embossed liquid measurements on lower right edge "750 ML" and numbers "A8626" and recycling symbols on base.
Historical NotesBottle of wine distributed by The Primadonna Restaurant. Owner Joseph Costanzo, Jr., opened The Primadonna Restaurant, named after his wife Donna, in McKees Rocks in 1986 and ran it until 2003, when he sold the restaurant to John Welsh, former owner of Welsh's on the Rocks. Offering Italian cuisine from Abruzzo and Calabria, Costanzo stylized the peasant fare of his parents' native regions in Italy into up-scale cuisine served on a white linen tablecloth. He won multiple awards for his 83 seat restaurant, including The Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 1990 Restaurateur of the Year, the International Geneva Association's 1995 Restaurateur of the Year, the DiRoNA Award (Distinguished Restaurants of North America), and was named one of America's Top Ten Italian Restaurants in 2002 by the International Restaurant and Hospitality Rating Bureau. Locally, The Primadonna Restaurant was voted the best Italian restaurant in Western Pennsylvania by the readers of Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Nationally, it was written up in the pages of Playboy Magazine, The New York Daily News, and Mid-Atlantic Country Magazine.
Related institution
The Primadonna Restaurant
Related person
Joseph Costanzo Jr.
Related institution
Pittsburgh City Paper
Related institution
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(founded 1927)
Related person
Donna Costanzo
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