With fewer than 25 active wineries in the entire Napa Valley in 1968, the Trefethen family rehabilitated a “ghost winery” and began replanting the vineyards. That year, residents established the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve to permanently protect more than 38,000…
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What Sets Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll District Apart
Tagged with: California, farming, Napa Valley, Oak Knoll District, terroir, winemaking
Posted in Wine Region Profiles
Posted in Wine Region Profiles
A Round of Applause from the Bleachers for the Bleechers
Since 1989, the Bleecher family has sustainably farmed grapes for their terroir driven, small production, estate Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc at Napa Valley’s Jericho Canyon Vineyard. Having raised their kids, grapes and multiple wine dogs on the estate, the…
Tagged with: Cabernet Sauvignon, California, Dale Bleecher, Earth friendly winemaking, farming, Jericho Canyon Vineyard, Napa Valley, sustainable farming
Posted in Wine and the Environment
Posted in Wine and the Environment
Winegrowing: Green and Getting Greener
The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance focuses on the long-term sustainability of the California wine community — and more and more wineries are following its guidelines all the time. To place the concept of sustainability into the context of winegrowing, the…
Tagged with: California, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance, earth friendly, farming, green winemaking, winegrowing
Posted in Wine and the Environment
Posted in Wine and the Environment
A Green World of Wine Update
We like to keep you up to date on “green” news in the world of wine, and today we have information on a new book as well as a winery that has been taking organic farming seriously ever since its…
Tagged with: California, farming, green winemaking, Paso Robles, sustainability, Tablas Creek, Wine Institute
Posted in Wine and the Environment
Posted in Wine and the Environment
