| Featured Vineyards & Regions |

Every month Ameritage Bistro will share a description, web site link and photo, with you, about one of our favorite vineyards. We hope this will enhance your wine experience as we all share in gaining better knowledge and understanding of wines, their properties and why they pair well with certain foods.

Lolonis

Lolonis Winery | Redwood Valley, CA | web site
For over 20 years our family has been producing handcrafted, organically grown wines that epitomize Redwood Valley style: robust and intensely flavored, yet complex and long o n the palate.

Looking for a wine that you tried a t a tasting or restaurant? Our wine shop offers a wide variety of limited production and hard to find wines such as our Winegrower Selection and Late Harvest wines.

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Vina Robles

Vina Robles | Paso Robles, CA | web site
Vina Robles is the realization of a long-held dream. It is the collaboration of international talents and recognition of an area of exceptional viticultural promise. It began as the world-wide search by Hans Nef, a Swiss restaurateur and developer, for the perfect place to grow Bordeaux and Rhone varietals.

With the help of California-based friend and business partner, Hans Michel, Paso Robles on California’s Central Coast was selected, as it was rapidly becoming known for the production of wines of noteworthy quality.

As a result, Hans Nef purchased the oak studded land that would become the Vina Robles estate in 1996. After careful site studies and mapping, the appropriate rootstocks and varieties were chosen and a vineyard was planted the following year. In 1998 Viticultural Management, Inc was established as a viticultural services and consultancy company, providing expertise to Central Coast wine grape growers and to Vina Robles. The first estate wines were crafted by Swiss winemaker Matthias Gubler in 1999.

Penedes, Spain

Penedes | Spain | web site

Catalonia's premiere wine region of Penedes (located less than an hour south ofbarcelona) produces a range of excellent still wines ranging from delicate whites tobeefy reds, as well as the flagship Cava. Traditional Method Cava is made with theindigenous grapes of Xarel.lo and Parellada. Excellent Boutique Cava companiesinclude Raventos Blanc, Gramona, and Pares Balta. Freixenet and Codorniu are thetwo largest and ubiquitous Cava companies. The wealth of Penedes terroir is wellknown and the region's indigenous grape varieties are held in increasingly highsteem, along with the best international grapes. The winemakers in Penedes employ thousand year old Mediterranean wine making practices with a modern twist. Wines with the Penedes DO can be found on the menus of the best restaurants all over the world. The range of wine styles in Penedes, from the fresh whites to the elegant Cavas and velvety red wines is one of the most extensive in the world.

There are many internationally famous brands and important wineries like Miguel Torres and Jean Leon. Torres, is one of the Spanish trailblazers of the Modern Spanish industry and is responsable for groundbreaking research on the Catalan grape varietals. . Penedes is an enclave of culture and art, from the wine villages to the cities, from Sitges to Barcelona. The region is steeped in histpory and garced with architecture from the likes of avant-garde geniuses like Gaudi, Cadalfach and Domenech i Montaner. For the wine loving tourist, the Penedes regions itself is as interesting as its wines, full of intrigue and culture.

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