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In 2004, Sunlight Electric met with Frog's Leap discussing how the winery was spending around $50,000 annually on electricity. On February 9, 2005, the photovolatic system went live over Frog's Leap's leeching fields. With the system's annual output of 260,000 kilowatt-hours (9.4 × 10 11 J), it produces about 85% of the site's energy usage. [11]
John Williams (born c. 1952) is an American winemaker and the owner and winemaker at Frog's Leap Winery in Rutherford, California. [1] He is a champion of dry farming [2] and an early pioneer of organic grape growing in the Napa Valley. Williams grew up on his family's dairy farm in Clymer, New York.
His wine cellar, built in 1859, narrowly predates that established in 1861 in St. Helena by Charles Krug, although this is commonly cited as the Napa Valley's first winery. [11] Captain Gustave Niebaum established Inglenook Winery in 1879 near the village of Rutherford. [12] This was the first Bordeaux style winery in the US.
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 .
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In 1993, Turley Wine Cellars was founded by Larry Turley, brother of the well-known consulting winemaker Helen Turley. Turley had entered the wine business in 1981 as co-founder of the multi-varietal Frog's Leap Winery, but soon realized that his interest lay in wines made from the Zinfandel grape. Starting out with just one location in St ...
Inglenook in the 19th century. The winery was founded in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum.Niebaum's employee Hamden McIntyre was not an architect but he designed gravity flow wineries for Inglenook and Far Niente along with other wineries of the decade. [1]
Other notable wineries in the Rutherford area include Beaulieu Vineyard, Grgich Hills Estate, St. Supéry Estate Vineyards & Winery, and Inglenook. The Auberge du Soleil restaurant and resort is located in Rutherford. [4] Rutherford's zip code is 94573. It is inside area code 707.