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With a surface area of 400 hectares, the communes of Bergerac, Creysse, and Lembras produce nearly 15 000 hectolitres of red wine. Pécharmant is the best known of the Dordogne region wines and has been classified AOC since 1936. The identification "Pécharmant" dates from 1946 and the new AOC on 13 March 1992.
In 1959, David Bennion purchased the 80 acre winery and vineyard above Cupertino in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That same year, he produced his very first wine, a Cabernet Sauvignon from the estate. Excited by the quality of the early wines, the partners decided to re-bond the winery in time for the 1962 vintage, calling their endeavor Ridge ...
The wine-growers decided to change their strategy and concentrate on producing dry white and sweet dessert wines, which were sought by this market. In the 20th century, when the boundaries of the Bordeaux wine-growing area were being drawn up, it was decided they should match those of the Gironde department. Bergerac wines, which had long been ...
Treasury Wine Estates officially became a separately listed company the following month, with David Dearie as its CEO. [ 7 ] Further write-down of stock worth around A$160 million took place in 2013, followed by the redundancy of David Dearie and the appointment of interim chief executive Warwick Every-Burns.
Concannon Vineyard is the second-largest winery in the Livermore Valley of California, producing around 30,000 cases annually. It is well known for its Petite Sirah and Concannon was the first winery to bottle this grape as a varietal wine in 1961. Prior to 1961, the petite sirah grape was produced worldwide as a blend wine.
Dominio de Pingus is a Spanish winery located in Quintanilla de Onésimo in the Province of Valladolid with vineyards in La Horra area of the Ribera del Duero region. The estate's flagship wine, Pingus, is considered a "cult wine", sold at extremely high prices while remaining very inaccessible, [1] [2] and commands an average price of $811 per bottle.
Baynes was a partner at Cazenove & Co., and latterly a managing director of JPMorgan Cazenove, from 1982 to 2006. From 2007 to 2011, he was the owner and bookseller of Simon Baynes - Books and Music in Shrewsbury. [3] He has been a trustee (and was the founder) of Concertina - Music for the Elderly, which he formed in 1998 with his wife.
Burrowing Owl owns 140 acres of vineyards and produces between 28,000 and 30,000 cases of wine each vintage. [9] [15] Organic viticulture techniques are used by the winery as part of the environmental policy. [6] [16] The estate produces nine wines, entirely from grapes harvested from their own vineyard holdings. [4]