Charles Krug Winery, St. Helena CA

Category & Type :

Wine and Brew

Location :

2800 Main Street , St. Helena CA

Phone :

707-967-2200

Website :

http://www.charleskrug.com/

Information about Charles Krug Winery...

In 1861, Charles Krug established the first winery in the Napa Valley! Since purchasing the winery in 1943, the Peter Mondavi Sr. Family has preserved its traditions and historic buildings for four generations while innovating with state of the art winemaking techniques. With grapes from our 850 acres of estate land, we are proud to make some of Napa Valley's finest wines. Please join us in celebrating our 150 year heritage and discover our wines.

The Peter Mondavi Family is forging ahead with another great renaissance of Napa Valley's first winery by guiding qualitative improvements that will serve future generations of the Family and its supporters.

They are accomplishing this by ushering in a new era at Charles Krug Winery without losing sight of the winery's history.

Founded in 1861 by Charles Krug, the 27-year old Prussian immigrant came to America with little besides willpower and a willingness to work hard to build the cornerstone of the first winery in the Napa Valley. He became the major local winery figure of his era, greatly influencing Napa Valley's development as a world-renown wine producing region.

His leadership was said to be inspirational, and his ideas innovative. Charles Krug introduced the cider press for winemaking, the first of which is still on display at the winery. He carefully selected rootstocks, varietals and vineyard sites - a novel concept in late 19th Century America. The knowledge he gained and shared benefited the young California wine industry.