The San Francisco call., 1909-04-06
California Wines
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Large liquor interests are oi9O
concentrated. financially. in this city.
The annual shipment of vSeyard. prod
nets. which include wines and brandy
amounts TO something more than Sz9'-
600 OOo. The wine represents $4,000
600 in amount Of products shipped each
wear out of the state, in addition TO
large consumption at home. for whlch
latter the figures are not available
THE brandy shipments to market
from California are in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000 600 a year. These
amounts of wine and brandy pass
largely through San Francisco, winch
is the great domestic wine depot or the
United States OF the articles derived
for consumption from the vineyards OF
tbe state other than wines and brandy
.able cranes represent annually in
value. for the bulk shipped away
something more than S5,OOO,0OV
Raisins that are shipped are repre-
sented by an annual value OF So,oVo,-
GOO in round figures, while the DRIED
cranes that are shipped are estimated
at about 100000.
Formerly the largest wine cellars in
fhe United States were 10 be found IN
Ssn Francisco. Destruction by the fire
~ 1905 changed this. but in the IN
terior counties Of California, where
rber-a are extensive vineyards. there
are great wineries and cellars wherein
are housed enough gallons Of wine, II
combined. TO float some hattieshlps
with various smaller craft thrown in
10 make good measure.
STATE LEADS IN GRAPES
california is easily the most i'm
porrant farter in viticulture IN the
United states, and grape culture is one
az 1be most widespread industries OF
rra 1 he
of-the United states department OF ag-
f,tulture for Iq00, the number Of grape
vines In California was more than SO,-
80o. .00o out OF a total Of lS2,0o0,0O0 in
round hgures for the United States; and
r,fs California showing was nearly il
tinles the combined number of-Tlnes IN
y states following in order after Cali
fornia. New York which was second
ia the 1ist Of American vineyard states,
could show less than a third of the
number of vines then growing in Cali
fornia.
Experts in wine making are numer-
Gus in San Francisco. The investment
in the production Of wines and brandy
IN California appears in large figures in
the following authoritative statement
derived from the most intelligent men
engaged in the business in California.
This was embodied in a report that
was recently submitted in behalf of
the wine and brandy industry of the
state, TO the national congress by the
tariff revision committee of California.
The investment in vineyard and col
lateral Industries in California repre-
sents an investment, at this time, of at
least slO0.O00,OO0. This will be largely
Increased if the conditions continue
favorable. There are 250,OOo acres in
vines in California, and the value OF
vineyards, wineries, drying, houses and
other establishments connected with
grape growing is more than 100000
00O
with the acreage lately planted and
shortly coming into bearing the yield
of grapes viii approximate 100000
tons per annum, which. when manu-
factured into wine, raisins. or shipped
as green grapes, have a value to the
state exceeding $25,000900."
WINE AND BRANDY OUTPUT
The production of wine and brandy
in this state for the period of u years
has been estimated by the California
state board of trade, which makes a
special study of California industries,
10 amount TO 27.lsl.064 gallons. Ere
quently the annual production amounts
10 more than this average. In 1896 the
gallons OF dry wines produced made up
a total Of but 9, Acc. 600 gallons, while
the sweet wines were but 4.IOO.O 900 and
the brandy 100000 gallons. The pres
ent combined output Of wines and
brandy is much larger than in the year
Just mentioned, as the average figures
show.
So important is the wine industry to
the prosperity of the state that it re-
cefves continual study on the part of
the faculty OF the state University of
California. and bulletins have been is
sued by leading viticulturists to inform
the people at public cost 1t is an in
teresting fact that in the early days of
Stanford university the brandy that
had been stored in Vina by Senator Le-
land Stanford was an important source
of ready money
California wines may be subdivided
into two general descriptions The first
includes the dry wines similar to the
Burgundies and the Bordeaux and the
white wines of the types of Rhine
Moselle. etc. and the second the sweet
wines Of the port. sherry. Madeira and
similar types. Different districts pro-
duce the different types. One county
Sonoma. has more than 20 600 acres in
wine vineyards and has produced some
thing like 12.500000 gallons Of wine
year for some years past. Where there
were forest growths the hills are now
clad in vineyards. One wine reservoir
in SOnOma county has a capacity of
JNn.tvo kal1otiS
The counties that produce wines and
brandy are nearly all relatively close
to San Francisco. Some Of the coun-
ties that have large acreages in vine
Yards have the following arrays of
vines in acres Napa county 1000.
acres; Contra Costa 5000 acres; Ala
media county 4,200 acres; Santa Cruz
county. 5000 acres; Santa Clara county.
1850 acres, Yolo county, 1000 acres;
San Joaquin county. 1926 acres; Fres-
no county. 1926 acres in wine grapes
and 100000 acres in grape vines OF
various sorts; San Bernardino county.
1850 acres; Lake county. 500 acres.
BEGUN BY PADRES
California vineyards We're first set out
by the Spanish padres in the mission
days in this state. The cultivation of
the vine has been followed as an in
d1stry ever since.
The production OF California wine
is the largest in the sweet wine dis
trict- Nearly 10000 tons of grapes have.
been crushed IL a single season at one
winery. The handling OF 10 ,000 tons at
= Urff In e.