Wente Vineyards was founded in 1883 by German immigrant Carl H. Wente. It's the oldest continuously operated family-owned winery in the country. The Livermore Valley, located 30 miles east of San ...

It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it became nearly synonymous with "white wine" in the U.S. Today, almost every wine-producing region ...