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It produces wine brands including Franzia, Cupcake Vineyards, Benziger Family Winery, Chloe Wine Collection, 7 Deadly Wines, Imagery Estate Winery, Concannon Vineyard, and Almaden Vineyards. As of 2008, the company was the world's third-largest wine producer. [ 1 ]
[22] [40] The Wine Group was the fifth largest wine producer nationally (just behind Coca-Cola's Wine Spectrum) for 1981 with sales of nine million cases, the same as the year before. [41] In 1998, 1.5 million adults were drinking Mogen David, putting it just ahead of its chief competitor Manischewitz. [22]
Concannon was founded in 1883 by an Irish immigrant, James Concannon of Inishmaan, County Galway.James imported a group of cuttings from Château Margaux in 1893. James planted a large area of his Livermore vineyard solely with the imported vines.
The Franzia family sold the brand to Coca-Cola in 1973 when Fred Franzia was in his early adult years; and it was sold to The Wine Group in 1981. Teresa Franzia (born Teresa Carrara, 1879–1949) founded the Franzia Wine Company in 1906. Teresa's daughter, Amelia Franzia Gallo, was the wife of winemaker Ernest Gallo. Teresa loaned Ernest the ...
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]
PlumpJack Winery was founded in 1997 when the PlumpJack Group acquired a century-old 53 acres (21 ha) vineyard in Napa Valley on Oakville Cross Road. The winery facility and tasting room were designed by Leavitt-Weaver, the same design firm that the PlumpJack Group used for the designs of its restaurants and hotels.
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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]