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It is located on Moraga Drive in Moraga Canyon along the western edge of the upscale neighborhood of Bel Air in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] [6] [3] [4] [7] Moraga Canyon was already home to wild grapes, as noted by Fr. Juan Crespí (1721–1782) in his diary during the expedition of Gaspar de Portolà (1716–1784) in August 1769. [1]
Opus One Winery is a winery in Oakville, California, United States.The wine was called napamedoc until 1982 when it was named Opus One. The winery was founded as a joint venture between Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild and Robert Mondavi to create a single Bordeaux style blend based upon Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
Bernard Magrez. Bernard Magrez (born 1936) is a French wine magnate who predominantly owns Bordeaux wine estates, including Château La Tour Carnet, Château Pape Clément, Château Fombrauge and Clos Haut-Peyraguey but also a large number of wine producing properties in other French wine regions and other countries, including Spain, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Japan, Morocco and California.
The Firestone Paso Robles winery focuses on small lots of Paso Robles-grown Bordeaux, including Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. [3] The winery is located at the corner of California State Route 46 East and Airport Road near downtown Paso Robles and features a tasting room, barrel cellar, enclosed patio, estate vineyard and terraced gardens with picnic accommodations.
WINE TRAVEL: Touring vineyards is a wonderful way to spend a holiday, but you might find yourself restricted in your alcohol consumption if you need to travel by car. Jane Knight tackles this ...
Winemaking became a hobby for both men, and in 2000, they began creating their own individual vintages. [1] [2] In 2004, Stuart built and licensed the first bonded winery in a residential neighborhood in Sacramento County, allowing him to sell his wines. [3] By 2010, Stuart took the wine business on full-time.
Château Mouton Rothschild has its vineyards on the slopes leading down to the Gironde Estuary, in the Bordeaux region, mainly producing grapes of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety. Today, Château Mouton Rothschild has 222 acres (90 ha) of grape vines made up of Cabernet Sauvignon (81%), Merlot (15%), Cabernet Franc (3%) and Petit Verdot (1%).
The vineyard of Pétrus covers 11.4 hectares (28 acres) and is located on a plateau in the eastern portion of Pomerol.. Located on top of a 20-hectare (49-acre) island mound, the Pétrus boutonnière or buttonhole, Pétrus' original vineyard possesses topsoil and subsoil high in iron-rich clay that differs from neighbouring vineyards, where the soil is a mixture of gravel-sand or clay-sand.