Inglenook Winery entrance, Rutherford, California, 1975 - Sonoma County Library Digital Collections -- Colecciones Digitales de la Biblioteca del Condado de Sonoma

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Title

Inglenook Winery entrance, Rutherford, California, 1975

Creation Date (Original)

1975

Description

Shows front door of the Inglenook Winery and sign denoting the facility as "Bonded winery 69."

Item Format or Genre

["black-and-white photographs"]

Local History and Culture Theme

["Wine and Winemaking"]

Subject (Topical)

["Wineries"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Inglenook Winery"]

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection"]

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_005927

Item Details
Image Details

Item Details

Title

Inglenook Winery entrance, Rutherford, California, 1975

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Description

Shows front door of the Inglenook Winery and sign denoting the facility as "Bonded winery 69."

Biographical or Historical Note

Inglenook produces estate bottled wines in Rutherford, California in the Napa Valley. The winery was founded in 1879 by a Finnish Sea Captain Gustave Niebaum. Niebaum died in 1908 and the winery was shut down during Prohibition. Upon repeal of Prohibition, Niebaum's widow Suzanne Niebaum reopened Inglenook and brought in a viticulturist and an enologist to upgrade the winemaking system. Niebaum's great-nephew John Daniel Jr. took over operations in 1939 and by the 1940s Inglenook's wines once were again declared by many to be the best in the Valley. More than 1,500 acres (610 ha) of the property were acquired by Francis Ford Coppola in 1975 with profits of his film, The Godfather. The brand name and the remaining 94 acres (38 ha), including the historic winery, were bought by Heublein, Incorporated, which began making lower quality wines produced elsewhere under the Inglenook label. Heublin was later bought by RJR Nabisco, then sold to Grand Metropolitan in 1987. Heublein sold the winery to the Canandaigua Wine Company (which later became Constellation Brands) in 1994. Canandaigua consolidated winemaking operations elsewhere and sold the remaining acreage and winery to Coppola in 1995. In the French tradition, Coppola combined his name with the original owner, naming the facility Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery. Coppola later renamed it the Rubicon Estate Winery. In January 2008, The Wine Group announced that it would purchase Almaden Vineyards, the Inglenook label and the Paul Masson Winery in Madera, California from Constellation Brands for $134 million in cash. On April 11, 2011, Francis Ford Coppola acquired the iconic Inglenook trademark, paying more, he said, than he had for the entire estate and announced that the estate would once again be known by its historic name, Inglenook. Its grapes are now entirely organically grown and its Inglenook Chablis is one of the five most-widely-selling wines in US restaurants. (Source: Wikipedia)

Creation Date (Original)

1975

Item Type

["Still image"]

Item Format or Genre

["black-and-white photographs"]

Number of Parts or Pages

1 photograph

Other Physical Details

black and white

Item Physical Dimensions

26 x 21 cm

Local History and Culture Theme

["Wine and Winemaking"]

Subject (Corporate Body)

["Inglenook Winery"]

Subject (Time Period)

1970-1979

Subject (Topical)

["Wineries"]

Country

["United States"]

State or Province

["California"]

California County

["Napa"]

District

["Rutherford"]

Geographic Feature

["Saint Helena Highway"]

Street Address

1991 Saint Helena Highway, Rutherford, California

Latitude

38.462891

Longitude

-122.426219

Geocoding Status

["Exact geocoding"]

Source of Title and Description Note

Title supplied by cataloger.

Credit line

Courtesy, Sonoma County Library

Local System Identifier

1335679

Digital Collections Identifier

cstr_pho_005927

Digital Collection Name(s)

["Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection"]

Digital Collections Area Group(s)

["Local History & Culture"]

Digital Collections Topical Subgroup(s)

["Wine Country Photos"]

Physical Item Barcode(s)

37565011224770 (ANNEX PHOTO 5927);37565039798599 (WL PHOTO 5927);37565029259909 (ARCHIVES PHOTO 5927)

Item Call Number(s)

ANNEX PHOTO 5927;WL PHOTO 5927;ARCHIVES PHOTO 5927

Shelving Location of Physical Item(s)

Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library;Sonoma County Wine Library, 139 Piper Street, Healdsburg, CA 95448 https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-wine-library;Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library

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