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"Ray and Tammy Krause, Vinificators" Our vineyard and winery are located on a mountainous forty acre site at an elevation of 1800 feet in the central Sierra Nevada range of eastern Madera County, California. We are close to the hamlet of O'Neals and not far from Bass Lake, the town of Oakhurst and the Southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. We farm our own Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Carmenere grapes on our property. Our goal was and is to make red wine, styled similar to those from France's Bordeaux region. Some traditional methods that we wanted to follow influenced our search for a vineyard site, which began in 1989. We purchased the property in 1995 and immediately began to prepare it for planting. (See the American Vineyard article on our PRESS page for details.) Our premier wine came from the 1999 vintage. We call it FAIT ACCOMPLI ...
In July 1688, Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe purchased the Manors of Westbrooke and Binscombe, and the house known as Westbrooke Place. James Edward Oglethorpe was born in 1696. Theophilus had returned to Godalming and, in the late Autumn of 1696, took the oath of loyalty to William III. The year was also marked for Theophilus and Eleanor, by the birth of James Edward Oglethorpe, their tenth and last child, on December 22nd 1696. (Click here for the early Oglethorpe family). He was born in London, and christened the following day at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Church by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Oglethorpe as a horticulturalist. Oglethorpe built a massive wall up the terraced hill on his property and planted a great vineyard along it. The warm spell of weather in 1730 coincided with the installation of the vineyard at Westbrook, and it is on record that the vineyard flourished for some years, yielding a plentiful supply of grapes, sufficient for wine-making. A visit by Dr. Richard Pococke in November 1754 found at ‘General Oglethorpe’s there is a vineyard, out of which they make a wine like Rhenish’. Reference: http://www.godalming-museum.org.uk/oglethorpe/james%20oglethorpe%202006.htm |
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