Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
The Forde Files - Tehachapi Vineyards
Members of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council tasting his Reisling, Primitivo, Cabernet Sauvingon and Syrah.
With his wife Lisa, Cliff Meridth, left, a retired Los Angeles County Fire Department Batallion Chief, cultivates the 700 vines he planted in 2009 at his Stray Leaves Vineyard on Highline Road in Tehachapi Valley.
Souza Family Vineyard and wine tasting room in Cummings Valley.
Souza Family Vineyard and wine tasting room in Cummings Valley.
Bob and Patty Souza
Customer Kirsten Campanario purchases a Souza wine from Patty Souza. Bob and Patty were the first to plant wine grapes in the Tehachapi area (2003). Their efforts have been rewarded with a parade of medals from the prestigious San Francisco Chronicle competition, beginning with the first crush of their signature Primitivo.
Wine tasting boutiques offer the charm of Tuscany, convivial company, award-winning wines
Looking for that APPELLATION
In the wine grape cultivation and tasting room business, every vineyard owner cheers for the success of other vineyards in the vicinity. Visitors like to ramble from one tasting room to another, the more destinations the merrier. "We're all in the game together," Bob Souza of Souza Family Vineyard said. "We support each other."
The vintners hope to gain a coveted Appellation d'Origine Controlle, which would enable the vintners to use the designation "Tehachapi Valley" on their labels. To be awarded the designation, the area must have 80 acres in cultivation.
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