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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: February 5, 2015
Caption: The previous Buena Vista Press House Marker
Additional Description: This is the first stone winery building in California, and also the first “gravity-flow” wine building. The Count’s wine grapes were loaded directly to the back of the building’s second floor from the road , made into wine, then brought by gravity to the caves below to be aged at steady, cool temperatures. The use of pumps can bruise wine - thus reducing flavor.
br> In 1982, this building was prepared for future violent earth disturbances; you may notice the metal washers on the out side of the building. These are attached to three foot long steel rods that go through and hold up the original stone walls.
Submitted: February 9, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p299956
File Size: 3.129 Megabytes

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