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Sobon Estate winery, located in Plymouth, Amador County, is the oldest winery in California and is registered as California Historical Landmark number 762. [1] It was started in 1856, by Adam Uhlinger a Swiss immigrant who is one of the people credited with bringing Zinfandel to America. [ 2 ]
Bruno Foucart and Geneviève Capy, and G. Flrent Laballe, G. Guillon Lethière: peintre d'histoire ; 1760 - 1832, Association des amis de Guillaume Guillon Lethière, 1991 Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, "Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers and Creole Difference: Guillaume Guillon Lethière's Oath of the Ancestors of 1822", Yale French Studies 101 (2002 ...
D'Agostini Winery refers to both a winery in Healdsburg, California (Sonoma County) owned by Armagan Champagne Cellars as well as the original vineyard, winery, and wine cellar located in Plymouth, Amador County, which are owned by Sobon Estate Winery. The original winery is registered as a California Historical Landmark. [1]
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 ...
During the middle of the 20th century, Plymouth underwent a number of urban re-development projects in the area, culminating in the re-constructed Jenney Grist Mill upon the same location as the original in 1969, with some parts, including the millstones, having been salvaged from a 19th century mill in Pennsylvania.
Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (French pronunciation: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris [1]) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.
Jean-Luc Colombo (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk kɔlɔ̃bo]) is a French wine producer and negociant in the Rhône Valley. While Colombo produces several Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wines in the Rhône, such as Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Hermitage , he is most noted for being a pioneer in the revitalization of the Cornas wine ...
The Pilgrims who settled Plymouth in 1620 named it Gurnett's Nose for its resemblance to headlands in the English Channel where gurnett fish [1] were plentiful. [2] The Gurnet (pronounced gurn-it with the accent on the first syllable) is the home of Plymouth (Gurnet) Lighthouse as well as Fort Andrew from the Revolutionary War and Civil War. [3]