Land: USA/Kalifornien
Webseite: www.seghesio.com
Adresse: Seghesio Family Vineyards, 700 Grove Street , Healdsburg, CA 95448, Sonoma County, Kalifornien / USA, Tel: Toll Free 866 734 4374 oder Tel. +1 707 433 3579

Seghesio Family Vineyards - Alexander Valley Kalifornien USA

Das Weingut SEGHESIO FAMILY VINEYARDS befindet sich im kalifornischen Weinanbaugebiet Alexander Valley - Sonoma County, gleich beim Städtchen Healdsburg, ca. 70 Autominuten (50 Miles) nordwestlich des Wein-Städtchens Napa und gut 1 1/2 Autostunden (72 Miles) nördlich von San Francisco.

Alle Weine von Seghesio Family Vineyards können täglich von 10.00 - 17.00 Uhr im Tasting-Room auf dem Weingut degustiert und eingekauft werden.
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Für spezielle Lunch oder Dinner-Events, Weinkeller-Besichtigung oder private Degustationen kontaktieren Sie bitte
E-mail: tastingroom@seghesio.com

Seit 2011 gehört das Weinlabel Seghesio Family Vineyards, wie auch Pine Ridge Vineyards, zu der umfangreichen CRIMSON WINE GROUP mit luxuriösen Weinmarken in Kalifornien, Oregon und Washington State mit Sitz in:
Crimson Wine Group
2700 Napa Valley Corporate Drive, Suite B, Napa, CA 94558
Tel. +1 707 260 0330, website@crimsonwinegroup.com

Zur Geschichte des kalifornischen Weinguts Seghesio Family Vineyards:
1886 kam der 1860 geborene EDOARDO SEGHESIO (siehe Bild ganz oben links mit Ehefrau Angela) aus Dogliani, Piedmont - Italien, in den Westen Amerikas und die Familien Geschichte begann. Schliesslich 1895 wurde die Familien-Weinfarm SEGHESIO HOME RANCH VINEYARD mit einem 56 Aren (23 Hektar) Weinberg in Healdsburg im kalifornischen Alexander Valley - Sonoma County gegründet. Am 12. Juni 1993 heiratete er seine nachgereiste ANGELA VASCONI, die ihm zwei Kinder schenkte.

Heute gehören 122 Hektaren Weinrebenfläche zum Weingut Seghesio Family Vineyards. In vierter Generation folgt Winemaker TED SEGHESIO (Familienbild rechts sitzend) seit 1979 den Fussstapfen von Urgrossvater & Gründer Edoardo Seghesio. Unterstützt von Winemaker ANDY ROBINSON (Bild Mitte rechts), PETE (CEO) & David (Farm-Manager) SEGHESIO und der 5. Generation in den Rebbergen Vineyard-Manager NED NEUMILLER. Im Jahre 1983 kam der erste Seghesio-Wein mit neuer Aufmachung und erfrischtem Esprit auf den Markt. 2015 konnte Seghesio seinen 120. Geburtstag feiern.
Die Geschichte geht weiter......

Seghesio Family Vineyards - Alexander Valley Sonoma County California USA:
Seghesio Family Vineyards is woven, irreversibly, into the history and fabric of the Sonoma County wine industry. From the turn of the last century, through Prohibition and the Great Depression, throughout the challenges of survival in the 20th and 21st centuries, it is the story of one family’s adaptation and reinvention, not once, but multiple times. Most of all it is the story of the values we hold dear: heritage, tradition and community.

The Seghesio Family Vineyards Story begins in 1886 when Edoardo Seghesio departed his family’s vineyards in Piedmonte, Italy for a new life in America. Like so many immigrants, he was drawn to Northern Sonoma County and the Italian Swiss Colony, to follow his passion for winemaking.

The “colony,” as it was known, hired immigrants for three year stints, providing room and board and then, a lump sum at the end of those three years enabling employees to buy land or set up a business in their new home.

Soon, Edoardo rose through the ranks to winemaker. Yet, he yearned for home. The Colony’s manager repeatedly encouraged him to stay and finally, it was his niece and the opportunity to purchase land that convinced Edoardo to remain.

That young girl, Angela Vasconi and Edoardo were married in 1893. In 1895, they purchased a modest home in northern Alexander Valley, less for the home than the surrounding 56 acres Edoardo recognized as ideal vineyard land. They planted the “Home Ranch” that year to what has become our family’s lifeline – Zinfandel. Edoardo remained at the Colony while building his own winery in the evenings after work. Upon its completion in 1902, the young couple began Seghesio Winery while raising their five children.

In 1910, they acquired additional acreage surrounding the bustling train station in what was then “Chianti, California.” Edoardo, appropriately, planted the 10 acres to the Chianti field blend of Sangiovese, Canielao Nero, Trebbiano and Malvasia. That vineyard, we call Chianti Station is North America’s oldest planting of Sangiovese.

In the years preceding Prohibition, the business flourished and the Seghesio Family gained a reputation for quality wine and their generosity toward others getting their start in this fledgling industry. Six months prior to Prohibition, and convinced it could not last more than a year, Edoardo made a decision to purchase his former employer, Italian Swiss Colony. The “Colony” with a 4,000,000 gallon capacity winery and its 1100 acres of vineyards were quite a value at $127, 500. As Prohibition prevailed, however, the debt was too much for Edoardo to bear. In 1920, he brought on partners, his brother-in-law, Enrico Prati, and the Rossi Family who were previous owners and at whose request Edoardo came to America. Edoardo sold his shares in 1933. Upon repeal of Prohibition, the family once again opened the doors of the winery and Seghesio was making a come back.

Unfortunately, Edoardo passed away in 1934 leaving the winery and all property to Angela. From then, Angela and her sons, Arthur, Frank and Eugene continued making wines and shipping via the railroad. With their hard-earned knowledge, they added vineyards when they could purchase them without debt. In 1949, they purchased a second winery facility in Healdsburg to enable them to keep up with the growing demand for their wines. In January 1958, the newspaper headlines read that Sonoma County’s wine industry had lost its matriarch when Angela passed away. Angela’s legacy as an industry leader and a great chef lives on in her grandchildren. Her sons formed a partnership based on the ideals of their parents, family, hard work and passion for the industry.

From the time of Angela’s death until the mid 1970s, the Seghesio Family flourished in the bulk wine business, producing most of the red wine made in Sonoma County. At their largest, 1,700,000 gallons were produced between the original winery in Chianti and the Healdsburg winery. Yet, as the industry evolved, so did the Seghesio family when in 1983, the first wines were bottled under the Seghesio label at the hands of Ted Seghesio, a fourth generation family winemaker.

Ted was the not only the winemaker but sold and delivered wine. In 1986, his cousin Peter Seghesio joined the business and began to set up a distribution network nationwide. By 1993, the Seghesio brand had grown to 130,000 cases of not only the family’s zinfandel and Italian varietals, but also Chardonnay, Cabernet, Sauvignon Blanc and both red and white table wine. It was in that year that the younger generation was given control of the winery.

Fortunately, they too shared a passion for the land and a desire to produce wines they were passionate about. They turned their focus to the vineyards and eliminated all but the wines we grow reducing production to 30,000 cases. Today, we are proud to passionately produce almost exclusively estate wines, some from those same vineyards Edoardo and Angela first planted in the late 1800s.

In 2011 Seghesio Family Vineyards joined Crimson Wine Group. Today, in addition to Ted as winemaker and Pete as Ambassador, several members of the Seghesio family hold positions, both in the vineyards and winery, including fifth generation family member Ned Neumiller who serves as Seghesio’s Grower Relations & Viticulture Manager.

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