Mayacamas Vineyards

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Mayacamas Vineyards is a Californian wine producer in the Mount Veeder AVA origin near the Mayacamas Mountains in the Napa Valley . The winery is known for producing more traditional wine than the region's new wines.

history

The winery was established in 1889 by John Henry Fisher , a German immigrant who went bankrupt in early 1900. After that it was no longer used for a few years, although in the first few years the prohibition smugglers are said to have produced wine in the old stone cellar. The property was owned by the Brandlin family in the late 1920s and 1930s.

In 1941 the British chemist Jack Taylor and his wife Mary bought the winery and gave it its current name.

In 1968 the winery was bought by Robert Travers and his wife Elinor. Under her leadership, the ripening plant was enlarged and adjacent properties were bought. The red wine from the 1971 vintage was judged by the 1976 Paris wine jury . Parts of the shooting for the film So Close to Heaven took place in 1996 at the winery. In Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide 1994 , the winery receives the highest quality award with the qualification "before 1979" with five stars.

Elinor Travers died in 2007. The property was then acquired by investor Charles Banks and his wife Ali, together with entrepreneur Jay Schottenstein and his son Joey. The selling price was not disclosed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Asimov: Old-School Cabernets Are Alive and Well in Napa . In: The New York Times . August 19, 2008, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed January 13, 2020]).
  2. ↑ The Best of Napa. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Third Edition), Simon & Schuster, New York 1994, ISBN 0-671-79913-4 , p. 913
  4. ↑ Elinor Travers. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 21 '54.4 "  N , 122 ° 25' 24.3"  W.