"La Vina Grande", the largest grape vine in the world, growing in Carpinteria Valley, about 10 miles south of Santa Barbara, California. It was planted from a cutting of Mission grapes, which were first introduced into California, at San Diego, in 1769, by the Franciscan fathers, headed by Father Junipero Serra. Its massive trunk is 9 feet 7 inches in circumference, its branches cover a space of 10,000 square feet, and it produced about 12 tons of grapes one year. Courtesy of the Wine Institute.

The oldest winery in California, dating back to 1771, is this little building in the rear of old Mission San Gabriel in Southern California. Under this shelter, Indians supervised by the Mission Padres pressed grapes for juice to make wine on stone floors still intact. Courtesy of the Wine Institute.

Leon Cherpin, Eugene Cherpin, Joe Cherpin, and Marcel Cherpin at the Louis Cherpin Winery in Fontana, c1960.

Bottling jug wines at the Cucamonga Winery, c 1960s.

Lena Guidera in her wine store on Foothill Blvd. (Route 66) in Etiwanda, early 1930s and shortly after Prohibition.

10/4/67 Cucamonga, Calif. J.H. King, a prision guard armed only with a "walkie-talkie" but no gun, watches as a group of convicts from the Chino Correctional Institution for Men harvest grapes in a Cucamonga field. They are part of 400 prisoners over whom a controversy is raging between Calif. Gov. Reagan and AFL-CIO leader Thomas Pitts who claims the convict labor constitutes a state subsidy to growers.

Garrett's Virginia Dare Winery located at the corner of Haven and Foothill Blvd. in Rancho Cucamonga c1930

Giuseppe (Joe) Romolo in the Romolo winery retail store on Fourth St. in Cucamonga, California (1950s)

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Waldorf Astoria, New York City, July 9, 1976, drinking 1974 Estate bottled white Riesling from Callaway Vineyard and Winery in Temecula, California.

Publicity shot of harvesting grapes in Guasti, California. October 3, 1937

Leon Cherpin (left) and Eugene Cherpin (right) checking brix (sugar content) at the Louis Cherpin Winery in Fontana. c1960

Etienne Cowper, winemaker at Mount Palomar Winery in Temecula, California.

Leon Santoro, winemaker at Orfila Winery in Escondido, California. 2002

Steve Riboli, Sr. outside the San Antonio Winery tasting room in Ontario, California.

Alex McGeary Shadow Mountain Vineyards, 2002.

Virgina Dare Winery ruins c.1977 photographed by Gary W. Cliser.

Primo Scorsatto at Padre Vineyard Company (late 1940s)

Salvator Castorina's Wine By-Products Plants near Cucamonga (Wine Storage Vats) c1920's

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Garrett Winery (Virginia Adair Winery)