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The dowry Bale left for her included 540 acres (2.19 km 2) of land north of St. Helena, California, on which Krug planted a vineyard and founded his winery in 1861. Charles Krug introduced innovative ideas in winemaking to California. He began making wine using a cider press for pressing, [3] carefully selected rootstocks, varietals and ...
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The Charles Krug Winery is a winery founded by Charles Krug in 1861. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1974. History
Charles Krug ABV: 13% Winemaker Charles Krug says this Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc—a lighter-bodied wine with strong citrus notes – is “always one of our most beloved wines.”
Here the variety is often co-fermented with Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. [ 3 ] Mondeuse noire has been planted in California since at least the 1880s when it was described by Charles Krug as one of the varieties that "ambitious winemen" were planting along with Cabernet Sauvignon , Petite Sirah, Miller Burgundy (likely Pinot Meunier ), Crabb ...
Jean-Charles Boisset Californian winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyards. Jean-Charles Boisset – head of Boisset Family Estates, Burgundy's largest wine producer; Jean-Michel Cazes – Managed estates such as Château Lynch-Bages and Château Les Ormes-de-Pez; Cecil O. De Loach, Jr. – Sonoma County grape grower and winemaker
Frank Schoonmaker, a prominent journalist and wine writer of the 1950s and 1960s introduced the German idea of labeling wines using varietal (Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Riesling) rather than semi-generic names borrowed from famous European regions (Burgundy, Chablis, Rhine, etc.). Robert Mondavi was one of the first to label the majority of his ...
The Napa County wine industry began when George Yount, of Sonoma County, grew the first wine grapes in Napa Valley in the mid-nineteenth century. [1] [7] Although he is credited with starting the wine industry, Yount did not grow the industry, and it was not until Charles Krug arrived in Napa that the industry began to explode. [7]