Ramona Valley Vineyard Association

Voice of San Diego, Posted: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:03 pm | Updated: 9:14 am, Sat Mar 12, 2011. ‘He Built This Whole Place With His Own Hands’ Posted on March 11, 2011 by Will Carless.   Gerardo Cordiano arrived in the United States, aged 24, with a fiancée and almost nothing else. He had left the rocky, sunny slopes of Calabria, Italy, for a new life on the cold streets of Syracuse, New York.