Nevada City Winery Explained

Nevada City Winery was a winery in Nevada City, California. It was located in a small area of defunct City Brewery on Spring street three blocks west of Deer Creek.[1] It was founded July 26, 1888 with a capital of $100,000.[2] A year later produced 8,000 gallons of wine, enough to require it to buy up all the empty liquor casks in town to hold it.[3] [4] Despite enthusiastic newspaper coverage, locals favored beer at least as well and prohibition further suppressed winemaking in Nevada City. However Nevada City Winery did become the first bonded winery to open in Nevada County following Prohibition in the United States.[5] But the mass production of cheap wines elsewhere in California, as well as the abundant grapes grown in that state's central valley, put a decades-long halt to wine-making and the last winery closed in the early 1950s.

Snow Mountain Winery opened in 1980, the first to bring professional winemaking back to the city. It named itself for the original Nevada City Brewery and moved to the Miners Foundry Garage in 1982.[6] In 1990, its production was estimated at 8,000 cases per year, while in 1998, its production was estimated at 9,000 cases.[7]

See also

Sanborn Fire Map, Nevada City, 1891.
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-05-06 . Sanborn Fire Map for Nevada City, 1981. Sheet 3. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201011155110/https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:gmd:gmd436m:g4364m:g4364nm:g4364nm_g007111891:00711_1891-0003/full/pct:25/0/default.jpg . 2020-10-11 . 2024-05-06 . Library of Congress.
  2. News: July 26, 1888 . Nevada City's Winery . May 6, 2024 . San Jose Mercury News . At page 1, column 6, seventh article from the top..
  3. News: September 14, 1889 . Persons and Things . At page 3, column 1, first article..
  4. Web site: The History of Vineyards in Nevada City . live . https://archive.today/20240506215011/https://www.nevadacitychamber.com/history/a-tip-of-the-hat-to-our-roots/ . May 6, 2024 . 2024-05-06 . Nevada City Chamber of Commerce . en-US.
  5. Book: McKowen . Dahlynn . Wine-Oh! Guide to California's Sierra Foothills: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary . McKowen . Ken . Wilderness Press . 2009 . 978-0-89997-492-7 . 32–.
  6. Book: Sullivan, Charles L. . A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present . 1 September 1998 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-92087-3 . 237 . https://archive.today/20240506222751/https://archive.org/details/companiontocalif0000sull/page/236/mode/2up?q=%22nevada+city+winery%22 . May 6, 2024.
  7. Book: The Vinifera Wine Growers Journal . Vinifera Wine Growers Association . 1990 . 222.

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