After learning about some of the Amador and El Dorado county rules looks like we should focus on finding something that’s already permitted for a winery/tasting room or is at least on a hard surfaced county road where we can probably get a permit. Examining some new options: One large tract w/ 40AC. planted and […]

No surprise, there are a lot of regulations for wineries. The contender in Plymouth is on a private gravel road. Permission from the neighbors is required to operate a tasting room on site. Maybe we can find an offsite location – say a storefront in Sutter Creek. There are a bunch of other tasting rooms […]

Found an interesting one in Plymouth. Nice property w/ room to plant additional vines. Has very nice equipment. Time to start investigating what’s really involved.

When friends ask us what we are doing these days and we tell them we are buying a winery responses vary from “wow, that’s cool” and “When will you open for tastings” to “what have you been smoking?” Truth is – this wasn’t planned. My prior startup shutdown in March of 2020, a early victim […]