October, 2006
Gold Country Autumn Sunset Magazine
Once beautiful but sleepy, this region is now beautiful but sophisticated. Good new restaurants are popping up in unexpected places. Even more strikingly, an influx of creative new winemakers has made the Gold Country one of the most fascinating wine regions in the West.
Family vintages
...A common denominator of most Gold Country wineries is that they're family-owned, not corporate, operations. Take a twisting road from Placerville, for example, and you come to Holly's Hill Vineyards. Carrie Bendick had lived in Washington and Utah before returning to California, where her father, Tom Cooper, planted vineyards on the family property — and made her winemaker. Now Bendick and her husband, Josh, earn gold medals for their Rhône-style wines...

View the entire article at the Sunset website here.  The pictures are beautiful!

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