Key keywords: Torrey DeVitto, Toast to Italy, family heirloom wine, Tuscan ancestral vineyard, generational Italian heritage, celebrity travel documentary, Sangiovese blend recipe, Italian American immigrant story Fans of actress and activist Torrey DeVitto are gearing up for her heartfelt new travel docuseries 'Toast to Italy', which follows her cross-continental journey to track down a long-lost family heirloom wine that has been part of her family’s oral history for four generations. DeVitto, best known for her roles in 'Pretty Little Liars' and 'Chicago Med', first learned of the wine from her paternal grandmother, who shared stories of her great-grandfather, a Tuscan vineyard worker who immigrated to the United States in 1898, leaving behind a small family vineyard and a handwritten Sangiovese blend recipe that he hoped to one day bring to America. For decades, DeVitto’s family attempted to locate the original vineyard and verify the recipe, but sparse immigration records and misspelled family names in Italian municipal archives halted every previous search. When production for 'Toast to Italy' kicked off in early 2023, DeVitto partnered with local Italian genealogists and Tuscan wine historians to retrace her great-grandfather’s steps, starting in the port city of Genoa where he departed for Ellis Island, before moving inland to Tuscany’s rolling Siena province. After three weeks of sifting through 120-year-old parish baptism records, land deeds, and vineyard registry documents, the team connected DeVitto to a small, family-run vineyard outside Montepulciano, owned by a distant cousin who had inherited the property from DeVitto’s great-grandfather’s younger brother. To DeVitto’s shock, the cousin still stored the original 1890s oak wine barrels marked with her great-grandfather’s initials, and a handwritten copy of the exact same Sangiovese blend recipe that her grandmother had kept tucked in her recipe box for 70 years. The first episode of 'Toast to Italy', which premieres on Discovery+ on October 18, 2024, captures DeVitto tasting the heirloom wine for the first time, alongside her newly discovered extended family. DeVitto has announced that she will partner with the Montepulciano vineyard to release a limited run of the heirloom blend in 2025, with 70% of all proceeds going to Italian agricultural nonprofits that support small, family-owned vineyards at risk of being lost to corporate consolidation. The rest of the series will follow DeVitto as she explores other regional Italian food and wine traditions, connecting with other Italian diaspora members looking to reconnect with their ancestral roots.