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The Rubicon Estate Winery (formerly Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery and once again Inglenook) is located in Rutherford, California, United States.The winery sits on a portion of the historic Napa Valley property first acquired in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum, founder of the Inglenook Winery.
Coppola got ca. 140 acres (57 ha) including most of the vineyard with 60 planted acres (240,000 m 2), while Lopez and his partner Mimi DeBlasio received the property buildings, 25 acres of partially planted vineyards and 2 acres (0.81 ha) of the original 1945 Cabernet vines.
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 .
In 1943, film producer Joseph Judson Cohn acquired the 195-acre (79 ha) property adjacent to Inglenook Winery. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1945 Cohn was persuaded by his neighbor John Daniel Jr., then in charge of Inglenook, to plant grape vines on his estate. 80 acres (32 ha) were planted with Cabernet Sauvignon , and the fruit from the J. J. Cohn Estate ...
Gammon touts his upper management experience with the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, where he was a second-in-command chief deputy for 17 years and third-in-command deputy chief for five years.
Rutherford is located within the 11,887-acre (4,810 ha) Mexican land grant Rancho Caymus deeded to the early Napa Valley settler George C. Yount from General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1838 as payment for a variety of services. Yount gave a 1,040-acre (421 ha) portion of the grant to his granddaughter Elizabeth and her husband Thomas ...
[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.
An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated appellation for American wine in the United States distinguishable by geographic, geologic, and climatic features, with boundaries defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) of the United States Department of the Treasury. [1]