Gourmets of Wine > Old Hill Ranch Vineyard Map Details 150 year history

[Slashfood] It was the first vineyard in Sonoma to be planted with non-mission varieties and it was recognized in the 1860s as a source of some of California’s finest wines. More recently wine historian Charles Sullivan called Old Hill the source of “California’s first really famous Zinfandel.”  While Old Hill Ranch has always been recognized as a Zinfandel “field blend”

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