The San Antonio Winery is a
winery in the
Lincoln Heights district in the city of
Los Angeles
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It has operated since 1917 just east of downtown at 737 Lamar Street, south of North Main Street. The winery includes a wine and gift shop, restaurant, and various rooms available for private events.
The winery uses
grape
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The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago, ...
s from the Riboli family farm in
Monterey, a smaller
Napa Valley vineyard, and contracts with other Californian growers. Besides the bottling and distribution at the original winery site, they have an energy-efficient winemaking facility in
Paso Robles
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and opened a tasting room there in 2016.
San Antonio produces varietal, table wines, and dessert wines, both red and white.
History
In 1917, Santo Cambianica, an
Italian man from the northern Italy province of
Lombardy
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,
immigrated to Los Angeles and started the winery at its current location. Hoping for good luck, he dedicated the winery to
Saint Anthony (in
Italian: San Antonio) by naming it as such. When
Prohibition
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was enacted in 1920, Cambianica asked for permission from the
Catholic Church
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to continue operating his winery for
communion wine. They also sold grapes to home wine makers. The winery has been declared as historical monument #42 in the city of Los Angeles.
Brands
San Antonio Winery produces and markets several wine brands.
* Stella Rosa is one of the best-selling brands of semi-sweet wine in the United States. In 2020, according to data analysis from Nielsen, the Stella Rosa brand was the seventh most popular wine by total sales, and #1 fastest growing wine. The grapes for Stella Rosa wines are sourced from the Asti region of
Piedmont
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, Italy, where the wines are fully produced. They undergo arrested fermentation via a process called the
Charmat
Sparkling wine production is the method of winemaking used to produce sparkling wine. The oldest known production of sparkling wine took place in 1531 with the ''ancestral method''.
Pressure and terminology
In popular parlance and also in the ...
method to produce a frizzante texture.
* Maddalena, a collection of wines named after the matriarch of the Riboli family.
* San Simeon
* Opaque
* Windstream
* San Antonio Specialty
* San Antonio Fruit Farm
* Highlands 41
* Riboli Family Napa Valley
* Santo Stefano
* Bodega Sangria
* Chocolate Bar
* La Quinta
See also
*
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
References
External links
*
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Wineries in California
Commercial buildings in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles