
He was just 6 years old when he first saw the deep red drink brought out at Sunday dinners at his grandparents' house.
Camden businessman Billy Yocco (originally Iocco) remembers holding a funnel in a narrow-mouthed pitcher or vase on the table so his Italian-born great-grandfather from Abruzzo, Pierino Gallese, could pour the homemade "vino" from a large jug kept under the table into the smaller vessel.