Table Wine | Dry Creek Valley a top wine producer
Just west of Healdsburg, CA, about 80 miles north of the Golden Gate in Sonoma County and protected from the Pacific winds by a rugged range of mountains, sits the winegrowing region known as the Dry Creek Valley. The valley runs two miles wide for about 16 miles, with the Alexander Valley just east on the other side of the 101, and the Russian River Valley to the south. It has been a preferred viticultural area since the end of the Civil War, and today is one of California's top producers of Zinfandel, Sauvignon Blanc and Merlot.
The first commercial vineyard in the DCV was called Bloch & Colson (after its founders) and opened in 1872. Six years later, in the Healdsburg Enterprise dated Oct. 17, 1872, a reviewer stated: “The wine produced by Bloch and Colson has finer flavor than from almost any other winery in the country. It has none of the bitter taste found in many wines.” Apparently the flowery, adjective-laden prose of today's weighty wine journals was a 20th-century innovation.
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