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Terms for a wine estate include azienda agricola, fattoria, tenuta and podere: their use on labels implies an estate-bottled wine. Individual vineyards may be identified by the terms tenuta (holding) podere (plot), vigna or vigneto. Cantina Sociale (CS) is a cooperative.