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Amador County News

Mike Dunne's Wine of the Week: 2007 Amador County Zinfandel

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 ...

Mike Dunne's Wine of the Week: 2008 Amador County Old Vine Grandmere Zinfandel

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 ...

Mike Dunne's Wine of the Week: 2008 Amador County Barbera

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