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2. DiGiorgio Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Di Giorgio was the largest wine producer in the country at that time though wine became a minor part of the corporation later. By 1946, the company occupied 33 square miles (85 km 2) of the San Joaquin Valley as well as land as far north as Washington state, in Marysville and south to the Mexican border. It was the largest grape, plum and pear ...

3. Petri Wine - Wikipedia

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   R. Petri Wine Company Warehouse, San Francisco, 1913. Petri Wine is a family-run vineyard in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded in 1886 by Raffaello Petri. [1] In 1953, Petri Wine was the largest domestic producer of wine in the United States. [2] Petri originally produced their wine exclusively in kegs for bulk, local ...

4. Roederer Estate - Wikipedia

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   Roederer Estate's flagship Brut sparkling wine. Roederer Estate is a California winery founded in 1982 by Jean-Claude Rouzaud, then president of its parent company, Champagne Louis Roederer. It produces estate-bottled sparkling wines from Mendocino County's cool, fog-shrouded Anderson Valley. As the California outpost of Champagne Louis ...

5. History of California wine - Wikipedia

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   The Gold Rush brought an influx of people to Northern California, many of whom arrived and settled in San Francisco (whose population grew from 1,000 to 25,000 between January 1848 and December 1849). This resulted in a significant increase in demand for wine and spurred wine production in the area within 100 miles of San Francisco. [15]

6. Italian Swiss Colony - Wikipedia

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   In 1881, Andrea Sbarboro founded an agricultural colony at Asti (named for Asti in Italy), primarily focused on grapes.Sbarboro's intent was to establish a profitable enterprise that would provide work for the many Italians who had migrated to San Francisco (although there were at first some Italian speaking Swiss from Ticino, thus giving the colony its name, it soon became an entirely Italian ...

7. Takahashi Trading Company - Wikipedia

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   Takahashi Trading Company is a former Japanese-import home goods retail and wholesale business in the United States, and is the name of a 1912 warehouse building that once housed the business headquarters in the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, California, U.S.. The business was active from 1945 until 2019, and had various retail ...