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From the Temecula Valley to the Santa Cruz Mountains, these wine regions deliver more of the tailored experience you seek and less of the crowds. (Related: Northern California’s oyster capital ...

It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it became nearly synonymous with "white wine" in the U.S. Today, almost every wine-producing region ...

Now, a new generation of winemakers is leading a revolution that’s helping to redefine California wine. The Santa Cruz Mountains range — as far as its wines go — is shrouded in relative ...

That winery launched in 1905 on a hilltop in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA (American Viticultural Area), thousands of feet above what is now Silicon Valley. Masson had emigrated from the wine mecca ...

In 1844 he built a flour mill in San Jose, and planted a small vineyard near his Rincon lumbermill, having come to believe the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley had superior conditions ...

2017 Mindego Ridge Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay ($48) From a small vineyard on the Santa Cruz side of the appellation, Mindego Ridge makes top-notch Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. This white's ...

Chris McGilvray, a Soquel-based filmmaker who grew up in Los Gatos, didn’t know much about wine when he got a ... that define winemaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains. “From an experiential ...