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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 ...
Baldacci Family Vineyards is a family-owned winery located in the Stags Leap District AVA of Napa Valley. [1] Established in 1998, Baldacci Family Vineyards owns over 50 acres of sustainably-farmed vines in three distinct Napa Valley appellations: Stags Leap District, Calistoga, and Los Carneros.
Acacia Winery, also known as Acacia Vineyard or simply Acacia, is a winery in the Carneros Valley appellation in Napa County, California, United States. Acacia Winery was founded in 1979 by co-founder Michael Richmond and others on Las Amigas Road. [ 1 ]
Pine Ridge Vineyards is a winery in Napa, California, in the United States. The winery was started by Gary Andrus and his then wife Nancy, in 1978. [2] They wanted to grow and produce Cabernet Sauvignon and other Bordeaux wines. [4] The tasting room is located in the Stags Leap AVA of Napa Valley. [2]
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]
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 ...
Colgin Cellars is a winery in Napa Valley, California, founded in 1992. Since 1992, Colgin Cellars has embraced the ideal of crafting wines of harmony, grace, and precision from exceptional hillside vineyards in the heart of the Napa Valley. The combination of unique geology, mid-slope elevation, and cooling airflow, in concert with precision ...
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]