Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-07
GRAPES AND WINE MAKING.
Reports frGm the Vineyards and Wine
Manufactures for 1874.


make favorable reports of their opela-
tions during the year 1874. Men thor
oughly posted on all matters pertain
ing to vineyards are of the opinion
that there are from 8, 100000 to 100000
bearing vines in Los Angeles county,
and that the average yield last year
was about ten pounds to the vine. OF
these vines, nine-tenths are of the
mission, or native, grape; only of late
years has the planting of foreign vari-
eties commenced in earnest. Of the
thirty-five millions ofpounds ofgrapes
raised during the year in this county
only about three-quarters crop the
great proportion is made into wine
and brandy. A gallon of wine requires
fourteen pounds of grapes, and a gall
Ion of brandy about sixty pounds.
Tarbox's distillery, one of the largest
in California, can use up the grapes of
a large and flourishing vineyard in q
short time-being capable of convert
ing into juice seventy tons daily. The
Alden fruit drying establishment,
while in full operation, uses up some
three tons daily.
There are over thirty registered dis
tilleries in the county-thirteen in
Los Angeles, twelve in Anaheim, one
at PueDte and one at San Fernando.
The U. S. Gauger in this city inspected
over $4,000 gallons of brandy during a
portion of last year. Most all of this
brandy is made by Tarbox, Rose and
Keller.
In the city of Los Angeles, and the
country five miles around, there
are about twenty wine manu-
factories. Keller's stands first, hav-
ing made 100000 gallons in 1874;
Koehler & Froehling over $50, coo gal
Ions (estimated), Pelanconi $4,000 gal
Ions, and the others from $1,000 to 5O,-
600 each. Mr.. Keller estimates the
wine made in the city of Los Angeles
and vicinity in 1874 at not less than
100000 gallons. At San Gabriel the
four establishments combined made
about 10000 gallons. AT Puente and
San Fernando about $4,000 gallons
We're made in 1874. The reports from
the wine makers at Anaheim will
swell the total amonnt of wine
made in this county, in 1874, to about
1900, 900 gallons.
AS an evidence of the extent Of wine
making here, and the success that has
attended it, the following notice of one
of the pioneers in the trade will prove
interesting to the HERALD readers:
Mr.. Keller, who settled here in 1851,
established his present wine manufac-
tory, on Alameda street, twenty years
ago. He at once planted out vines,
oranges, lines and citrons, in great
quantities, and they now yield him a
princely income. During the twenty
years he has manufactured 100000
gallons of wine and 10000 gal
Ions of brandy. Last year he
made about 100000 gallons of wine,
ofa very superior quality. He has
100000 bearing vines that yielded
him an average of fifteen pounds to
the vine. He also purchased 100000
pounds of grapes, at an average of rs
cents per hundred, delivered at his
establishment. He ships some of his
wines direct from here, but most of it
goes to his San Francisco house. He
has one hundred 'arieties of grapes on
his place, and has sent to Europe and
Africa for seventy-five additional va
rieties. He manufactures some ten
different varieties of wines and last
year made several new experiments,
that he is satisfied will make the ma
tive grape still more palatable to the
lovers of good wine.