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Cakebread Cellars is a Napa Valley winery known for its Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc wines, which are internationally distributed. [1] Founded in 1973 by Jack and Dolores Cakebread in Rutherford, California, the winery produces approximately 200,000 cases of wine per year. [2]
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 ...
[2] [9] In 1864, on the marriage of one of his granddaughters to Thomas Rutherford, Yount gave the couple around 1,000 acres (2 sq mi) of land, which Rutherford dedicated to viticulture. [10] Other pioneers followed in the 1840s and 1850s, by which time vineyards were established in and around Napa City and up the length of the valley to Calistoga.
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 .
California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in ...
A Sauvignon blanc from the Yakima Valley of Washington State A California Sauvignon blanc. In North America, California is the leading producer of Sauvignon blanc with plantings also found in the Washington state and on the Short Hills Bench of the Niagara Peninsula and Okanagan Valley in Canada. Sauvignon Blanc is also grown in small regions ...
In the 1950s and 1960s Beaulieu was considered one of the "big four" Napa Valley producers, along with Inglenook (also in Rutherford), Charles Krug, and Louis Martini. [3] In the Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981, the 1970 vintage of Beaulieu Vineyard George de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon received second place.
The Wagner family has farmed the current Caymus property to wine grapes since the 1940s. Until 1972, when the winery was established, the fruit was sold to other area wineries. [4] The vineyard was planted to Nathan Fay's clone of Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1960s. [5] Fay also provided grapes to Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.