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California wine has a long and continuing history, and in the late twentieth century became recognized as producing some of the world's finest wine. While wine is made in all fifty U.S. states , up to 90% (by some estimates) of American wine is produced in the state.
Santa Clara Valley is the oldest wine region in Northern California dating back to 1777 when Franciscan padres founded Mission Santa Clara de Asis and planted vitis vinifera in its vineyard for sacramental wine. [2] The term "Santa Clara Valley" has been used in local books written from 1871 to present. The area has a long history as a grape ...
California State Route 99; California State Route 154; California Trail; Carson Trail; Central Overland Route; Conejo Grade; Cooke's Wagon Road; Cottonwood Creek (Kern County) County Line Road (Santa Clara–Stanislaus counties, California)
The Malaguerra Wine enterprise can be viewed as a representative example of the viticultural development in Santa Clara County. [ 1 ] During the mid-1890s, a national economic downturn and this, combined with the "Wine War," a period characterized by excessive grape planting following the resolution of the Phylloxera problem, led to the closure ...
The Central Valley is California's largest wine region stretching for 300 miles (480 km) from the Sacramento Valley south to the San Joaquin Valley. This one region produces nearly 75% of all California wine grapes and includes many of California's bulk, box and jug wine producers like Gallo, Franzia and Bronco Wine Company. [10]
Later, it served as a wagon trail to link cinnabar mines on Mount St. Helena to San Pablo Bay, the northern portion of the San Francisco Bay, [1] and was the first permanent road from Napa to Calistoga. [2] Silver was discovered in Napa Valley in 1858, and wine production began in the 1870s, making the road an important trade route.
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 ...
At the end of the River Road Wine Trail is the start of another wine trail. At Greenfield, if one takes the Arroyo Seco Road westward, it branches into the Carmel Valley Road (G16) from which one can then take the Carmel Valley Wine Trail northwards, passing through Carmel Valley Village and ending at the coastal city of Carmel. [12] [13]