Urban Winery Trend
Filed in archive Wine Shops by tammy on January 04, 2007

Maybe I'll luck out and find one of these new urban wineries in my neighborhood soon. Looks like they are the new rage in wines.
From Urban wineries growing:
Unique among Maryland's 25 licensed wineries, Frederick Cellars reflects a trend spreading eastward from the West Coast. No one has gathered statistics on the growth of urban wineries, but "it's really gotten big here in Santa Barbara," said Craig Addis, marketing director of the Santa Barbara Winery, a downtown winery in California that inspired Daneri and his software-consultant wife, Emily Williams.
Santa Barbara Winery is one of the oldest of the modern urban wineries. It opened in 1962, crushing grapes from vineyards 100 miles away. Now, it has its own vineyards in the Santa Rita hills, 40 miles distant, with a second winery there targeting wine-country tourists.
In the past few years, four other urban wineries have opened in downtown Santa Barbara, Addis said. Others have popped up elsewhere in California and Oregon. A related trend, the do-it-yourself storefront winery, has taken hold in California; Fountain Hills, Ariz., and Chesapeake, Va.
"There are a lot of wineries that are just in old factory buildings," said Cyril Penn, editor of the California-based trade journal Wine Business Monthly. To make good wine, "you need good grapes and not to screw them up," Penn said.
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