Vineyard With A View

When Neviana Zhgaba, who owns Aquila’s Nest Vineyards in Newtown with her husband Ardian Llomi, was first contacted for this story, she couldn’t talk because she was touring Spain’s oldest winery.
Every year Zhgaba and Llomi go on a wine trip to Europe looking for inspiration for their Connecticut winery and because, well, they just love wine. Both hail from Albania and were raised in a Mediterranean culture steeped in the fruit of the vine.
“You grow up looking at your parents, your neighbors, your friends’ families, harvesting grapes and making their own wine,” says Zhgaba.