If the owners of Nevada City Winery could start over, they might choose another name, perhaps Deer Creek Dry Diggings, an earlier handle for the mining camp. The stream, after all, flows right behind the winery. more ...
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Visitors to Nevada County may have an easier time finding a gold mine than a winery. more ...
You can measure a wine region's youth and folksiness by its dogs. Not dogs as in quality of wine, but dogs of the barking type. The greater the number and variety of dogs that greet visitors at winery tasting rooms, the younger, more casual and less crowded the wine region. more ...
Nevada County, like other Mother Lode counties developing vineyards and wineries, is predominately red-wine country. It's evident in the plantings -- three-quarters of Nevada County's wine grapes are black -- and it's evident during tastings. more ...
Wine grapes have been cultivated in Nevada County since at least the end of the Gold Rush, but the modern era really began with Dennis Ball a quarter of a century ago. more ...
With the brashness of the prospectors first drawn to Nevada County's gold fields, grape growers and winemakers are putting down vines and stacking barrels throughout the rugged county. more ...