Los Angeles Wine
ebook ∣ A History from the Mission Era to the Present · American Palate
By Stuart Douglass Byles
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The renowned
California wine industry, famous for northern vintages, actually was born near
El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Spanish missionaries harvested the first vintage in
1782 at Mission San Juan Capistrano and then cultivated enormous vineyards at
Mission San Gabriel. Their replanted vine-cuttings took root on Jose Maria
Verdugo’s 1784 Spanish land grant in what became Glendale. Jean Louis Vignes
brought a Bordeaux winemaking experience to LA in 1831 and initiated wine trade
with San Francisco. By 1848, Los Angeles contained one hundred vineyards.
Author Stuart Douglass Byles traces the little-known LA wine tradition through
vintners of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, Anaheim and Rancho
Cucamonga, Temecula Valley and Malibu and details the San Antonio Winery
heritage, the last one standing from old Los Angeles days.