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Category: Wine Articles – Overview

Wine History

Collecting, preserving and sharing the story of wine in SLO County.

  • Wine - 1900s & 1910s History
  • Wine - 1920s & 1930s History
  • Wine - 1940s & 1950s History

University of California – Experiments with Deciduous Fruits In the Geneseo Settlement, Paso Robles

As agriculture in California developed, the California Legislature and the University of California worked to determine which dry-farmed crops would thrive in various regions throughout the state. Paso Robles became an important area of study in 1889 thanks to the passage of the Hatch Act of 1887 to provide funding for agricultural experiment stations.

  • Wine - 1960s History
  • Wine - 1970s History
  • Wine - 1980s History

21st Century History