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They built up the winery in Saint Helena, California [1] together until 1994, when John Williams took Frog's Leap to the Red Barn Ranch in Rutherford, California and Larry Turley established what is now Turley Wine Cellars. [10] In 2004, Sunlight Electric met with Frog's Leap discussing how the winery was spending around $50,000 annually on ...
John Williams (born c. 1952) is an American winemaker and the owner and winemaker at Frog's Leap Winery in Rutherford, California. [1] He is a champion of dry farming [2] and an early pioneer of organic grape growing in the Napa Valley. Williams grew up on his family's dairy farm in Clymer, New York.
The Rutherford AVA is an American Viticultural Area located within Napa Valley AVA and centered on the town of Rutherford, California. The area is known for its unique terroir particularly with its Cabernet Sauvignon .
His wine cellar, built in 1859, narrowly predates that established in 1861 in St. Helena by Charles Krug, although this is commonly cited as the Napa Valley's first winery. [11] Captain Gustave Niebaum established Inglenook Winery in 1879 near the village of Rutherford. [12] This was the first Bordeaux style winery in the US.
Rutherford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Napa County, California, United States. [3] The population was 115 at the 2020 census . Rutherford is located in the Rutherford AVA (American Viticultural Area) which is located in the larger Napa Valley AVA .
The AVA has more vines planted to it than any other wholly contained appellation within the Napa Valley. A wide variety of wine grapes do well in this climate, including varieties not widely grown in other parts of Napa Valley, such as Riesling and Pinot noir. The district is planted largely to Merlot, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, in that ...
The original winery was enlarged in 1977, and Mondavi enologist Larry Wara was hired as a wine consultant. [6] The following year, Cakebread produced three Cabernets for '78 vintage: JTL1, Napa Valley, and Lot 2. [6] In 1979, Bruce Cakebread joined the family business as a full-time winemaker after graduating from the University of California ...
The winery was founded in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum. Niebaum's employee Hamden McIntyre was not an architect but he designed gravity flow wineries for Inglenook and Far Niente along with other wineries of the decade. [1] Niebaum died in 1908 and the winery was shut down during Prohibition.