Explaining the Wine List of Producers

Some of the tools I used to assign wine labels to their appropriate producers and locations are based on (1) the wineries own brochures & newsletters, (2) bonded winery numbers, (3) bar codes, (4) publications like Wines & Vines, (5) research by me, and (6) anything creditable in writing such as newspaper articles, and especially Wine Spectator and Decantor magazines.

The basics:  wineries and producers:

  1. Will be listed twice if it involves a proper name: by last name, then by first name.
  2. Every variation as to how they are listed on their labels will be shown. Examples:  Jordar, Jordar Vineyards & Winery, Jordar Wine Co., Jodar Winery.  Rather than spelling out Jordar each time, you will see it listed as Jordar, Vineyards & Winery, Wine Co., Winery.  Further, wineries will also provide variations to their name.  Example:  Jocelyn Lonen, Jocelyn Lonen Winery, Jocelyn & Lonen Winery, Lonen, Jocelyn Cellars, Jocelyn Wines.
  3. Will also have their secondary wine labels listed twice (A) located with the primary producer, and (B) individually with the primary producer in ( ).
  4. When grouped together by a County, will have the town identified by [ ], then the County.  Example:  Johas Cellars    [Clarksburg]      Yolo Co.
  5. Within the “Labels” column, (O) = no label in the collection, (L) = at least one label in the collection, (LL) = multiple variations or secondary labels.  When the winery is shown to have multiple titles listed, or with secondary labels listed, the labels column could look like (LOLO).
  6. Numbers that are listed before the “Location” column are the winery’s Bonded Winery #.
  7. “BW” in the label column indicates this wine label can be found in the Bert Wuttken Family Wine Collection housed in the St. Helena Wine Library in St. Helena, CA.
  8. “JA” in the label column indicates this wine label was first part of the John Anderson’s wine label collection, and later incorporated into my collection in 2014-16.
  9. If the “Location” column is blank, I have as of yet been unable to locate where is the producer.
  10. {Historical} indication, the winery is pre-proabition and sometimes called “Ghost Wineries”.
  11. In the “Location” column, click “View” when you wan to see sample labels(s).

Right or wrong, I have taken liberties as to how to list defunct wineries or those that have been absorbed by other or new wineries.  As I envisioned my accumulation of information and wine labels as a historical wine library-label collection, I have made every effort to trace what has happened to a winery.  Unless otherwise indicated, I used the following guidelines: 

                (1)  When a winery is absorbed by another winery or producer, the absorbed winery’s name, secondary label names, and bonded winery number are transferred to the new winery.

                (2)  Bar codes (which you can view by clicking the appropriate box in the “Home” page, are another way to identify who produced the wine.  One difficulty here is that Custom Crush Facilities still make it difficult to identify the actual winery involved.

As you can imagine, the sheer volume of information accumulated will obviously contain many errors and omissions (in my case probably spelling and typos).  Please excuse this inadequacy.  I encourage you to Email me at   hvincentmueller@gmail.com  for any corrections or additions. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Traders:

But Wuttken, USA (deceased)
John Anderson, USA (deceased)
Gill Cook, England
Roger Middleton, England
Pierre Beller, Switzerland
Bert Wentzel, Netherlands
Andre Kirchegin, Russia
Paul Kashanor, Russia
Glauco Baratta, Peru

 

Family & Friends:

Dorallen Davis, Sister
Helene Onaga, Niece
Angelo & Natali Servino, friends