Quintessa Winery
Quintessa Winery
Dry Creek Valley The Dry Creek AVA within the larger Sonoma AVA specializes in Zinfandel, its historical grape. RecentlyI had a chance to lunch with Ann Peterson, Executive Director of Dry Creek’s wine tourism organization, to get a better sense of what is going on in the Dry Creek Valley region. Dry Creek Valley: Hot
Cline Cellars Old Vine Zinfandel The Story of Cline Old Vine Zinfandel From Lodi, California You might have heard of the small town of Lodi, California. It is famous for the Zinfandel red grape variety. The town of Lodi is between the San Francisco Bay and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cline Cellars, established in 1982,
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Are you curious about what goes on “behind the scenes” in that bottle of Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel you’re enjoying? If you’ve seen the film Sideways, you might remember the scene when the character played by Virginia Madsen takes a sip of very old wine and thinks about the people who made the wine and
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They came to Lodi and Amador County for Gold … and became farmers. The History of Winemaking in Lodi and Amador County California’s nascent wine industry took flight during the Gold Rush of the 1850s, amid the rugged western foothills of the majestic Sierra Nevada mountain range. As fortune seekers, many of them European, flocked
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