Virginia dare winery rancho cucamonga

Virginia dare winery rancho cucamonga: This winery is closed.

Not only has the building stood for more than a century, but its history is filled with drama, both real and manufactured. It includes an auspicious beginning, an early confrontation with its potential demise, a long run of regional dominance, family infighting, despair, rebirth and, finally, disrespect. But when the original tower and the attached winery were constructed in , there was little else in the area.

Paul Post and Henry Klusman had purchased about acres on which they had planted vineyards several years earlier. They hired the same architect who had designed much of the Mission Inn in Riverside. The result was a sturdy and impressive structure, known as the Mission Winery. In , Garrett purchased the property outright. Garrett was famous for its Virginia Dare wine.

The first white wine produced in the United States, it was named for the first white child born in the Americas. Before long, the Mission Winery was known as the Virginia Dare. The winery still produced concentrated grape juice, which was shipped to the East Coast, where it was marketed to home winemakers.