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Stony Hill Vineyard is a Napa Valley winery in Saint Helena, California, USA, within the Spring Mountain District AVA. Unusually for Napa Valley, it formerly produced almost exclusively white wine, chiefly Chardonnay. The winery was founded in 1952 and was family-owned until 2018; it is now part of Lawrence Wine Estates, owned by Gaylon ...
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 ...
Fantesca Estate & Winery is a family-owned boutique winery in the Spring Mountain District AVA of Napa Valley. [1] The proprietors – Susan Schulze Hoff and Duane Hoff – are former executives of Best Buy Company. [1] [2] Since April 2008, Heidi Barrett has been the estate's winemaker. [3]
The winery began when Ann and Dick Grace planted one acre (0.40 hectares) of vines in 1976. The first vintage was produced in 1978, at Chuck Wagner's winery, Caymus. [13] A second acre was added in 1985, but phylloxera took its toll, as the winery's vines were planted on non-resistant rootstock. [14]
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 ...
The property was under development as a winery at the time, with wine under production by the former owners. [2] In 2001 the company conducted a financial transaction in which it sold the 53 acres (21 ha) to a Napa farming group. The winery then leased back the tasting room and events center. The company has no ownership stake in the nearby ...
Recognizing that suitability of the Napa Valley land for winemaking, he founded his winemaking operation in 1874. [1] Jean Laurent died in 1890, after which his winery continued to operate successfully under a succession of owners. In the late 1930s it was the location of St. Helena Cooperative Winery, known as the "little co-op" at the time.
Blankiet Estate is a California wine estate owned by Claude and Katherine Blankiet. Located in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains in the Napa Valley, the estate produces a portfolio of wines from their Paradise Hills Vineyard. The tasting room is located in the Renaissance period Castello that was built by a team of regional and ...