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Winter is upon us and with the completion of the harvest, the wines are resting comfortably in barrels and tanks, slowly maturing
toward perfection. This year’s crop varied greatly from area to area, but overall the quality has remained high. Now begins the time for California’s talented
men and women winemakers to begin the difficult task of bringing the resting grapes to their peak of taste and quality. It’s not an easy task, but generally the
results are worth the wait and the effort expended by all. Experienced wine lovers will be anxiously awaiting the first releases of the current crop in order to
compare the quality with that of previous years.
Very importantly, today there are more than 225 new wineries/wine producers listed and scattered throughout every area
of the State, many of which are not listed, with direct links to their websites, anywhere else.
Each winery is listed in both the Alphabetical, Regional and in the Newly Listed Wineries section on the Home Page.
Check your individual Regional area of the Mall regularly to find the newly listed ones near you. Keep in mind two areas that are great for wine tasting. The Sierra Foothills, which is East of Sacramento and in the South part of the State, just North of San Diego, the Temecula area. These two areas make a nice change from the Napa and Sonoma areas and they have some very nice properties and excellent wines of all types. Enjoy. I have just done a complete revision of the "Links We Like" section. You are missing one of the best features on the Mall if you have not visitied it recently. There are over 300 interesting and useful linked websites in 16 different categories. Virtually everyone can find one or more that they can use, and there are a lot listed that you won't find anywhere else. It continues to be a non-commercial links section with no affiliate type websites. Did you know that California produces over 90% of all of the wine consumed in the United States annually? And that the 35 largest wineries produce over 85% of all of the wine produced in the State each year. The remaining percentage is produced by more than 2,200 smaller producers, most of whom make 2,000 cases, or less, each year. On June 28th, 2002, USA TODAY honored us by listing us in their full section devoted to U.S. wineries in the 50 states as the recommended directory to contact for locating California Wineries with websites.To navigate the Mall, simply click on the blocks on the left or use the links at the bottom of each page to reach the sections that you want. If you are looking for a particular Varietal, I also have links to most of the prominent ones with direct links to the producers. Notice our footer links on the bottom of each winery's page. Clicking on this footer link brings you directly back to the last section that you were on, at the Mall. Make sure to visit us regularly as new wineries and new listings are being added almost daily. |
