Wine History By Decade: Early 1800s
1804 Survey of the San Miguel Arcangel Mission shows an inventory of 832 Native Americans, and...
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Author: Libbie Agran
Wine History by Decade: 1980s
1980 With Paragon Vineyard grape quality established and the Chalone winery facility reaching its...
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Wine History by Decade: 1960s
1960 York Winery was awarded a gold medal for Zinfandel on the 16th day of September 1960 by the...
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Duke of Bourbon – A History Of California In The Newsletter Collections
David and Judy opened the first store in the San Fernando Valley dedicated to wine, The Duke of Bourbon-Canoga Park, in 1967. Vine-Line, their nationally distributed newsletter, began publication in 1971. In 1995 Duke of Bourbon became one of the first shops to open on the internet.
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The San Francisco Chronicle’s: The Lost Civilization of California Wine
The San Francisco Chronicle’s wine critic, Esther Mobley, discusses California’s strangest...
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