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Mayacamas Vineyards is a California wine producer located in the Mt. Veeder AVA in the Mayacamas Mountains within the Napa Valley AVA, bordering the Sonoma Valley AVA. The estate is known for producing wine of a more traditional style than the Napa trends of recent years that emphasizes power, weight, high levels of alcohol and extravagance. [1 ...
Justin Meyer (born Raymond Meyer, 11 November 1938 – 6 August 2002) was an American vintner, enologist, and member of the Christian Brothers.He was the founder along with Raymond Twomey Duncan of Silver Oak Cellars in 1972, a successful winery based in the Napa Valley and Alexander Valley.
Mayacamas Vineyards, a California wine producer This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 10:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The winery's 320-acre (130 ha) regenerative organic certified estate vineyard, named Rhinefarm by Bavarian-born Jacob Gundlach in 1858, is located within the Sonoma Valley AVA of Sonoma County, at the crossroads of the Sonoma Valley, Los Carneros AVA and Napa Valley AVA, along the Mayacamas Mountains. They specialize in estate-driven ...
After a successful harvest at Chateau Petrus in 1982, Moueix established a new winery, Dominus Estate, in the Napa Valley, and asked Baron to manage the facility; he worked there until 1994. [3] In 1994, Baron met co-founder of Silver Oak Cellars , Justin Meyer , after seeing a quirky classified ad in the newspaper Wine Country . [ 4 ]
The winery was created in 1996 on 46 acres ranging over several volcanic hills above the town of Yountville with the goal of producing wines of First Growth quality. [2] In the 1990s, the best California wines became known as " cult wines " and a prominent winemaker making such wines was Helen Turley .
Mount Veeder AVA is an American Viticultural Area located within Napa Valley AVA among the Mayacamas Mountains.The boundaries of this appellation include 25 sq mi (64.7 km 2) with 1,000 acres (400 ha) planted on thin volcanic soil.
Hanzell Vineyards is a California wine producer located just outside the town of Sonoma. The winery was founded by James David Zellerbach (future United States Ambassador to Italy) who acquired 200 acres in the Mayacamas Mountains in 1943 and began planting Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in 1953. At the time, the entire state of California had fewer ...