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In the 1950s and 1960s Beaulieu was considered one of the "big four" Napa Valley producers, along with Inglenook (also in Rutherford), Charles Krug, and Louis Martini. [ 3 ] In the Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981, the 1970 vintage of Beaulieu Vineyard George de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon received second place.
Cakebread Cellars is a Napa Valley winery known for its Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc wines, which are internationally distributed. [1] Founded in 1973 by Jack and Dolores Cakebread in Rutherford, California, the winery produces approximately 200,000 cases of wine per year. [2]
[2] [9] In 1864, on the marriage of one of his granddaughters to Thomas Rutherford, Yount gave the couple around 1,000 acres (2 sq mi) of land, which Rutherford dedicated to viticulture. [10] Other pioneers followed in the 1840s and 1850s, by which time vineyards were established in and around Napa City and up the length of the valley to Calistoga.
Sauvignon blanc (French pronunciation: [soviɲɔ̃ blɑ̃] ⓘ) is a green-skinned grape variety that originates from the city of Bordeaux in France.The grape most likely gets its name from the French words sauvage ("wild") and blanc ("white") due to its early origins as an indigenous grape in South West France. [1]
They built up the winery in Saint Helena, California [1] together until 1994, when John Williams took Frog's Leap to the Red Barn Ranch in Rutherford, California and Larry Turley established what is now Turley Wine Cellars. [10] In 2004, Sunlight Electric met with Frog's Leap discussing how the winery was spending around $50,000 annually on ...
Los Carneros (also known as Carneros) is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) which includes parts of both Sonoma and Napa counties in California, U.S.A. The 37,000 acres (58 sq mi) area was recognized on September 18, 1983 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by Beaulieu Vineyards proposing to establish a viticultural area named ...
The state Forest Service has banned outdoor burning in 30 Western North Carolina counties in the wake of a spate of wildfires that have burned thousands of bone-dry acres.
Cabernet Sauvignon from the Stags Leap District. The origin of the name "Stags Leap" is not well documented. Most common oral histories attribute it to a native Wappo legend of a stag leaping to escape hunters as another version refers to a large, majestic stag that eluded a generation of hunters, always leaping and escaping at the last moment. [3]