Yellow Tail
Yellow Tail is a brand of wine produced by Casella Wines Pty Ltd. Casella wines is based in Yenda Australia, Yenda has a population of approximately 1000 people. The Casella family has produced wines since the 1820s in Italy.
However in 1951 the Casella family, headed by Filippo Casella and his wife Maria, moved to Australia for a better life. YellowTail is a new development and was a chance for the family winery to enter into the bottled wine market - having previously supplied bulk wine to other wineries.
Trefethen Vineyards
Trefethen Vineyards was established in 1882 as Eshcol, a biblical word for “lush cluster of grapes.” Following retirement from a successful career with Kaiser Industries, Eugene Trefethen along with his wife Katie purchased Eshcol in 1968 along with six adjoining properties to create Trefethen Vineyards.
At that time, replanting of the vineyards and restoration of the historic winery building began. The Trefethens' restoration efforts were recognized in 1988 by the Department of the Interior, which placed the winery on the National Register of Historic Places as the only 19th-century, wooden, gravity-flow winery surviving in Napa County.
Sterling Vineyards
Sterling Vineyards, in Calistoga, California, is a large high-end winery that achieved international recognition when it won first place in the Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981. Visitors to the winery take a short tram to gain access.
Sterling Vineyards farms 1,200 acres of vines in various parts of Napa Calley. Production emphasizes Bordeaux and Burgundy-style wines, and is split in several tiers: the entry-level "Napa Valley" wines for which it is most famous, "Reserve" wines (their highest level), "Single Vineyard" wines (specialty wines for enthusiasts), "Vintner's Collection" (value wines for restaurants and mass distribution)...
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, (not to be confused with Stags' Leap Winery), is a Napa Valley winery established by Warren Winiarski in 1972. Winiarski sold the winery to a joint venture by Chateau Ste.
Michelle of Woodinville, Washington and Marchesi Antinori Srl of Italy for $185 million in August, 2007.
The new winery achieved international recognition just four years after its establishment, at the Judgment of Paris where its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon won first place in a blind taste test by leading wine experts.
Royal Wine Company
The Royal Wine Company, also known as Kedem, is a Kosher food manufacturing and distribution company, incorporated in the United States for the last fifty years, started by the Pluczenik brothers in the 1940s and run by the Herzog family since 1958.
The Herzog family first operated a winery in Czechoslovakia. The winery was the exclusive wine supplier to Emperor Franz Joseph, who granted one of the early Herzogs the title of Baron. Though the wines for the emperor were not necessarily Kosher wines, all of the other wines were produced under the full scrutiny of Kosher law.
Robert Mondavi
Robert Gerald Mondavi born June 18, 1913 (1913-06-18) (age 94) in Virginia, Minnesota, United States is a leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California.
From an early period, Mondavi aggressively promoted labeling wines varietally rather than generically. This is now the standard for New World wines.
In 1968 he made a dry oak-aged Sauvignon Blanc, an unpopular variety in California at the time, and labelled it "Fumé Blanc."
Ridge Vineyards
Ridge Vineyards is a winery with two locations: the original headquarters, located at an elevation of 2,300 feet on Monte Bello Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Cupertino, California, and a secondary winery at Lytton Springs in Sonoma County. Predecessors at the site of the Monte Bello winery date back to the 1890s.
Ridge has been under the direction of winemaker Paul Draper since the 1960s, when was hired by David Bennion, and has emphasized natural, ecologically sustainable farming and fermentation.
Montana Wines
Montana Wines is New Zealand's largest wine company, owning vineyards in Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, and Waipara.
Montana was founded by a Croatian immigrant, Ivan Yukich ( Jukić ), who planted his first vines in 1934 in the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland.
The first wine was sold in 1944, and by 1960, 10 hectares were planted. Ivan's sons, Mate and Frank, had become involved, and they set up the company Montana Wines in 1961.
Mayacamas Vineyards
Mayacamas Vineyards is a located northwest of Napa, California on Mount Veeder in the Mayacamas Mountains between the Napa and Sonoma Valleys in California.
The winery is small in scope compared to many other operations in the Napa Valley but it makes up in quality for what it lacks in size. The winery only produces approximately 5,000 cases of wine per year.
The majority of which are Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, with smaller quantities of Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir also produced.
Grgich Hills Cellar
Grgich Hills Cellar is a winery located in Rutherford, California in the heart of the Napa Valley.
Winemaker Mike Grgich had gained international recognition at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 when the Chardonnay he produced at Chateau Montelena won first prize among white wines. He and Austin Hills of Hills Brothers Coffee soon became business partners and established Grgich Hills Cellar on July 4, 1977.
The name Grgich Hills does not describe a geographical feature but is instead a combination of the names of the winery's founders.


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