Lookout Winery opens near Hale’s Bar, offers authentic Naples-style pizza

Chuck Bordogna makes real Italian pizza at his recently opened Look Out Winery on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn. Chuck Bordogna makes real Italian pizza at his recently opened Look Out Winery on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn.

By Tim Omarzu June 19, 2015 4 min read

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Look Out Winery opens near Hale’s Bar; offers authentic Naples-style pizza in wood-fired oven

Chuck Bordogna sits with one of his bottles of wine in the tasting room at Look Out Winery on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn. Bordogna makes real Italian pizza on site.

Chuck Bordogna opened his Look Out Winery recently on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn. Bordogna makes real Italian pizza on site.

Chuck Bordogna, right, helps customer Stephanie Pitts with her purchase of pizza at Look Out Winery recently on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn.

Staff Photo by Tim Barber/Chattanooga Times Free Press - June 16, 2015
The wine tasting room at Look Out Winery is spacious with a view of Nickajack Lake on U.S. Highway 41, in Guild, Tenn.

Joe Bordogna learned a few things from his grandparents while growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa.

How to make pizza and wine, for example.

“I’ve been making dough since I was on my grandma’s knee playing with doughballs,” he said.

The winemaking Bordogna learned in the basement of his Italian-born grandfather, who gained U.S. citizenship by fighting for the U.S. Army during World War I.

Six weeks ago, Bordogna opened a business that combines his two passions: Lookout Winery. It overlooks Nickajack Lake in Guild, Tenn., about 20 miles west of downtown Chattanooga.