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ACE Cider has become a significant employer in the largely rural "West County" portion of Sonoma County, including Sebastopol, home of the Gravenstein apple.The company's existence and success (as demonstrated by rapid sales growth in the 3–5 years prior to 2013 in particular) bucks the trend of the "homogenization" of the county's agricultural economy, i.e. the domination of agriculture by ...
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 market. Seagram bought the winery in 1982, and was in turn purchased by Diageo in 2001. [2]
Sebastopol (/ s ɪ ˈ b æ s t ə p oʊ l,-p uː l / sib-AST-ə-pohl, -pool) is a city in Sonoma County, California, with a recorded population of 7,521, per the 2020 U.S. Census. [7] Sebastopol was once primarily a plum- and apple-growing region. [9] Wine grapes are the predominant agriculture crop, and nearly all lands once used for ...
The entrance to Ironstone Vineyards in Murphys, California. Ironstone Vineyards is a winery that is noted for the production of several U.S. wine brands, including Obsession Wines, Leaping Horse Vineyards, Christine Andrew, Stone Valley, and Drifting. [1] As of 2004, Ironstone has been listed as the 17th-largest winery (in terms of cases sold ...
The Sebastiani Vineyard and Winery is California Historical Landmark No. 739, listed on June 6, 1960. [1] The location was founded by the Franciscan Fathers at the Mission San Francisco Solano. The wine produced was used for Holy communion in worship church services and Holy mass.
The Wild Horse Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area whose borders overlap both Napa County and Solano County, California and is partially contained within the Napa Valley AVA. The appellation 's southerly location results in more hours of sunshine than other locations in Napa Valley or nearby Green Valley .
Although Ridge Vineyards was founded in the early 1960s, wine production at the winery's Monte Bello location has a much longer history. Grapevines were first planted on Monte Bello Ridge by Osea Perrone, a doctor and prominent member of the northern California Italian immigrant community, in 1885.
Castello di Amorosa is a winery located near Calistoga, California.The winery opened to the public in April 2007, as the project of a fourth-generation vintner, Dario Sattui, who also owns and operates the V. Sattui Winery named after his great-grandfather, Vittorio Sattui, who originally established a winery in San Francisco in 1885 after emigrating from Italy to California.