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Now Viewing: Christian Brothers Winery
Formerly a major winery in the NAPA VALLEY, Christian Brothers Winery is now the label for a line of inexpensive wines produced from their facility in the town of Madera just northwest of Fresno in the SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. The original Christian Brothers Winery was established in 1882 in Martinez, California, by the teaching order, Brothers of Christian Schools. In the 1920s it moved to the Napa Valley. At one point it was producing about 1 million cases each of wine and BRANDY annually. It had three wine-producing facilities in the Napa Valley, plus one in the CENTRAL VALLEY for making both wine and brandy. In 1989 Christian Brothers Winery was sold to Heublein, a subsidiary of the British giant, Grand Metropolitan. Heublein has since divested itself of some of its Christian Brothers' Napa Valley holdings including the Mont La Salle facility, which it sold to the HESS COLLECTION, and the historic Greystone Cellars, which is now the home of the new west coast branch of the Culinary Institute of America.
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