SacWineRegion

When the modern California wine trade began to gain momentum about four decades ago, one of the more instrumental players to establish Amador County as a fine-wine region was Montevina Winery. more ...

There's lots of chatter these days about how the draft horses of the wine trade - big, heavy, lumbering zinfandels, cabernets, syrahs and the like - are going the way of the, well, draft horse. more ...

Neither Hank Cooper nor his son Dick Cooper was the first to cultivate barbera in Amador County's Shenandoah Valley. more ...