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Lodi AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the Central Valley of California, at the northern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, east of San Francisco Bay.The AVA gained approval as a designated wine growing area in 1986 and includes 551,000 acres (223,000 ha) of which 103,000 acres (42,000 ha) are currently planted with wine grapes. [2]
Sierra Foothills is a vast American Viticultural Area (AVA) encompassing portions of seven of the twelve California counties in the foothill "belt" of the Sierra Nevadas in north-central California, an interior range that extends about 360 mi (580 km) in a northwest-southeast orientation from Mt. Lassen to Walker Pass near Bakersfield.
Ironstone Vineyards is a winery that is noted for the production of several U.S. wine brands, including Obsession Wines, Leaping Horse Vineyards, Christine Andrew, Stone Valley, and Drifting. [1] As of 2004, Ironstone has been listed as the 17th-largest winery (in terms of cases sold) in the United States. [ 2 ]
Castello di Amorosa is a winery located near Calistoga, California.The winery opened to the public in April 2007, as the project of a fourth-generation vintner, Dario Sattui, who also owns and operates the V. Sattui Winery named after his great-grandfather, Vittorio Sattui, who originally established a winery in San Francisco in 1885 after emigrating from Italy to California.
Bell Wine Cellars: Napa Valley, California: Bought Bell Wine Cellars in Yountville to form Spanos Berberian Winery LLC and partnership with winemaker Anthony Bell. [37] [113] Sting: Tenuta il Palagio: Tuscany, Italy [114] [115] Train: Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co. Livermore Valley, California: Collaboration with Concannon Vineyard.
In 2022, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo opened the Justin and J. Lohr Center for Wine and Viticulture. The center includes the donor-funded 15,600 square-foot Lohr Family Winery building; a 15,600 square-foot research and teaching winery providing students access to crush, fermentation, barrel, sensory, bottling ...
The Central Valley is California's largest wine region stretching for 300 miles (480 km) from the Sacramento Valley south to the San Joaquin Valley. This one region produces nearly 75% of all California wine grapes and includes many of California's bulk, box and jug wine producers like Gallo, Franzia and Bronco Wine Company. [10]
Although Ridge Vineyards was founded in the early 1960s, wine production at the winery's Monte Bello location has a much longer history. Grapevines were first planted on Monte Bello Ridge by Osea Perrone, a doctor and prominent member of the northern California Italian immigrant community, in 1885. The first Monte Bello wine was produced in ...