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Freemark Abbey Winery. Freemark Abbey Winery, located between St. Helena and Calistoga in California's Napa Valley, traces its roots to 1886.Today, Freemark Abbey produces Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc, as well as very limited production wines, such as Viognier, Malbec, and Cabernet Franc.
Baldacci Family Vineyards is a family-owned winery located in the Stags Leap District AVA of Napa Valley. [1] Established in 1998, Baldacci Family Vineyards owns over 50 acres of sustainably-farmed vines in three distinct Napa Valley appellations: Stags Leap District, Calistoga, and Los Carneros.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a winery founded by Warren Winiarski in 1970 and based in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley, California.. The winery achieved significant international recognition in 1976, six years after its establishment, at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, where its 1973 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon won first place among ten top French and ...
Caymus Vineyards is a Napa winery owned by Chuck Wagner and his family. It was named for George Yount's Rancho Caymus land grant , [ 2 ] which in turn was named for the villages of Kaimus, the Wappo settlements previously existing in the region.
Pine Ridge Vineyards is a winery in Napa, California, in the United States. The winery was started by Gary Andrus and his then wife Nancy, in 1978. [2] They wanted to grow and produce Cabernet Sauvignon and other Bordeaux wines. [4] The tasting room is located in the Stags Leap AVA of Napa Valley. [2]
He planted Merlot and Chardonnay, now very common in Napa Valley, at a time most vineyards were focusing on Cabernet Sauvignon. Under long-time winemaker Ric Forman (later of Abreu Vineyards), they released California's first vintage-dated Merlot. [3] The Coca-Cola Company bought the winery in 1977, in a short-lived attempt to enter the wine ...
He planted vines, and by 1896 Chateau Montelena was the seventh largest winery in the Napa Valley. [3] Cabernet Sauvignon vines at Chateau Montelena. With the onset of Prohibition in the United States, winemaking ceased at the Chateau and in the period that followed Tubbs sold grapes but did not make wine. In 1958 the Tubbs family sold the ...
Artesa Winery opened in 1997 [4] and is located on a hilltop in the Carneros AVA area of Napa County. [1] That same year, Artesa purchased a Sonoma Coast AVA property for $1.7 million. The property, which comprised 324-acres, was set to be developed into Pinot Noir vineyards, upon the removal of redwood trees .