St. Clair Winery is an American wine brand from Deming, New Mexico, founded in 1984. [1] As of January 2020, St. Clair Winery's Mimbres Red is New Mexico's #1 selling wine and is made in the Mimbres Valley in Luna County by the Lescombes family (Lescombes Family Vineyards). The vineyard site used to produce the wine is located 50 miles west of Deming, New Mexico, just east of Lordsburg, New Mexico. It is the largest yielding vineyard in New Mexico and covers 220 acres. The company is owned and operated by Hervé Lescombes and family (sons Florent Lescombes and Emmanuel Lescombes), who have been in the wine industry for six generations, and have made wine across three continents (Algeria, Africa; Burgundy, France, Europe; New Mexico, USA, North America)
St. Clair is also known for its chile-infused wine, Hatch Chile Wines, made with Hatch peppers, for which it was awarded a US$50,000 US Federal grant for value-added agricultural products in 2014. [2]
The Lescombes family's company-owned locations were re-branded under the "D.H. Lescombes" name in Spring of 2019. Besides the D.H. Lescombes Winery & Tasting Room in Deming, there are D.H. Lescombes Winery & Bistro locations in Albuquerque, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. [3] A location in Santa Fe, Hervé Wine Bar, was opened in 2018.
D.H. Lescombes was named after the fifth generation of the winemaking legacy, Danielle & Hervé Lescombes. A Limited Release selection of D.H. Lescombes wines are made with the finest red varietals grown in their own New Mexico vineyard. Limited Release wines are crafted in small, carefully controlled batches and committed to a two-year French oak maturation process.
St. Clair Winery's Mimbres Red became the #1 selling wine in the state of New Mexico for the first time in early 2019. It had been ranked as the best-selling red wine for many years.
Today, the St. Clair Winery brand is still Lescombes family-owned and made since 1991. It is sold at various retailers in New Mexico. The wines are distributed by National Distributing Company within the state of New Mexico.
Chilean wine has a long history for a New World wine region, as it was the 16th century when the Spanish conquistadors brought Vitis vinifera vines with them as they colonized the region. In the mid-19th century, French wine varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenère and Franc were introduced. In the early 1980s, a renaissance began with the introduction of stainless steel fermentation tanks and the use of oak barrels for aging. Wine exports grew very quickly as quality wine production increased. The number of wineries grew from 12 in 1995 to over 70 in 2005.
New World wines are those wines produced outside the traditional winegrowing areas of Europe and the Middle East, in particular from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. The phrase connotes a distinction between these "New World" wines and those wines produced in "Old World" countries with a long-established history of wine production, essentially in Europe, most notably: France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
E & J Gallo Winery is a winery and distributor headquartered in Modesto, California. It was founded in 1933 by Ernest Gallo and Julio Gallo, and is the largest exporter of California wines. E & J Gallo Winery is the largest family-owned winery in the United States.
Wine has been produced in the United States since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84 percent of all US wine. The North American continent is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.
Kendall-Jackson Vineyard Estates is a vineyard and winery, under the Kendall-Jackson brand, located in Santa Rosa, California in the Sonoma Valley wine country. As of 2010 Kendall-Jackson was the highest-selling brand of "super-premium" wine in the United States, often compared in blind tastings to 1er Cru wines of Volnay, Burgundy.
Concha y Toro is the largest producer and exporter of wines from Latin America and one of the 10 largest wine companies in the world, with more than 33 millions of cases sold per year in 2014, distributed in 135 countries. Concha y Toro Winery is located in Santiago de Chile, but the company has vineyards in Chile, Argentina and the United States, with more than 10.000 cultivates hectares in 2016. Casillero del Diablo and Don Melchor wines have international recognition. As of 2010 is one of the official sponsors of the English football club Manchester United F. C.
New Mexico has a long history of wine production, within American wine, especially along the Rio Grande, from its capital Santa Fe, the city of Albuquerque with its surrounding metropolitan area, and in valleys like the Mesilla and the Mimbres River valleys. In 1629, Franciscan friar García de Zúñiga and a Capuchín monk named Antonio de Arteaga planted the first wine grapes in Santa Fe de Nuevo México, in what would become the modern Middle Rio Grande Valley AVA. Today, wineries exist in the aforementioned Middle Rio Grande Valley, as well as the Mesilla Valley AVA and the Mimbres Valley AVA.
California wine production has a rich viticulture history since 1680 when Spanish Jesuit missionaries planted Vitis vinifera vines native to the Mediterranean region in their established missions to produce wine for religious services. In the 1770s, Spanish missionaries continued the practice under the direction of the Father Junípero Serra who planted California's first vineyard at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Turkish wine is wine made in the transcontinental Eurasian country Turkey. The Caucasus region, where Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran are located, played a pivotal role in the early history of wine and is likely to have been one of the earliest wine-producing regions of the world.
Founded in 1870 by Jaime Torres, Bodegas Torres is a historical wine growing company located in Pacs, some 4 km from Vilafranca del Penedès, where the company has its head office. Torres is the family winery with the most extensive vineyards in the Denomination of Origin (DO) of Penedès and the largest winery in Spain.
Miguel Torres Chile is a Chilean winery that was founded in Curicó, in 1979, by the Spanish family company Miguel Torres. In its 230 hectares, the Viña Santa Digna vineyard cultivates the varieties Sauvignon blanc, Riesling, Gewürztraminer and Chardonnay and Cabernet sauvignon. To a lesser extent they also cultivate Pinot noir, which contributes to the cuvee of a brut sparkling wine.
The Mimbres Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in southwestern New Mexico near the towns of Deming and Silver City. The AVA includes the Mimbres Watershed of the Mimbres River, and most vineyards are planted at elevations between 4,000 feet (1,200 m) and 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above sea level. The area is a desert, but irrigation and the deep, rich soils of the once-larger Mimbres River have made viticulture possible since the late 19th century.
Deming is a city in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, 60 miles (97 km) west of Las Cruces and 35 miles (56 km) north of the Mexican border. The population was 14,855 as of the 2010 census. Deming is the county seat and principal community of Luna County.
Kingston Family Vineyards is a Chilean winery located in the Casablanca Valley of Chile. Considered pioneers for growing red wine grapes in a valley known for whites, they have been called "one of the area’s most promising producers". The vineyard was founded in the early 1990s by the Kingston Family.
Turdo Vineyard & Winery is a winery in the North Cape May section of Lower Township in Cape May County, New Jersey. The vineyard was first planted in 1999, and opened to the public in 2004. Turdo has 5 acres of grapes under cultivation, and produces 1,100 cases of wine per year. The winery is named after the family that owns it.
Luna Rossa Winery is an American winery in Deming, New Mexico. It owns New Mexico Vineyards, the largest vineyard in New Mexico.
Ponderosa Valley Vineyards & Winery is an American winery located in Ponderosa, New Mexico, founded in 1982. Its wines have won awards in the Indy International Competition and the Colorado State Fair and New Mexico State Fair wine competitions. Since 1996, the winery has only released vintages which have won multiple bronze, silver and gold medals in formal wine competition.
Noisy Water Winery is an American winery in Ruidoso, New Mexico, founded in 2009 by the Riddle Family. In 2014, its wines won 15 awards at the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, including a Double Gold for its Ruidoso Bubbly Moscato, 2 Gold medals, and 5 Silver medals. According to co-owner Jasper Riddle, it is the only winery in Ruidoso that authentically produces its own wines.
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