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Livermore History - Wineries - Cresta Blanca 1 |
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Page 1: Raboli, Pioneer,
Chateau Bellevue Wineries and a Postcard Page 2: Mont-Rouge and Vienna Wineries Page 3: Cresta Blanca Page 4: Pressing Grapes, at Cresta Blanca Page 5: Bottling and other functions at Cresta Blanca Page 6: Ruby Hill See Also: Harvest Wine Festival Page 1 - Page 2. |
Cresta Blanca
Cresta Blanca information on the web:
Article on Charles Wetmore
LHG
newsletter about the winery in the 1940s
Wine Label
The Livermore Heritage Guild has a publications about Charles Wetmore and Cresta
Blanca. See the Publications List
This 1896 photo is labeled as the Cresta Blanca Farm. It is
was taken from a hill just west of the winery, looking south. The winery
is not shown, and would be to the left of the photo. On the right, beyond
the house is the site of the future Arroyo Sanitarium. The gap in the hill on
the right is now the location of the Del Valle Dam.
Cresta Blanca hill, inspiring the name of the Winery. Taken from
the Arroyo del Valle creek bed in 1897. The winery
is behind the trees on the right.
The wine tunnels dug into the hillside at Cresta Blanca in 1911.
Left: Clarence Wetmore, Right: Frank Minoggio
Clarence Wetmore standing near the wine press that made the wine
for the Paris Exposition. The Charles Wetmore house (at Cresta Blanca Winery) is
in the background.
Arroyo Rd at entrance to Cresta Blanca
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