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GWVI Foothill Findenwein
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Eureka! You have found California's Original Wine County. Nestled in the historic Sierra-Nevada foothills, the Shenandoah Valley of Amador County and the Fairplay area of El Dorado County make for a perfect blend of geocaching and winetasting. California’s Gold Rush began 1848 with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. As fortune seekers, many of them European, flocked to the Sierras to prospect for gold, small wineries arose to help slake their thirst. Within a few decades, there were more wineries in the Mother Lode than in any other region of California. Some of the vineyards planted during that era survive to this day. The decline of gold mining at the end of the 19th-century, followed by Prohibition, devastated the Sierras' wine frontier, which lay dormant for many years. Then, in the 1970's, a new generation of pioneers re-discovered the Gold Country drawn by ideal conditions for producing quality wine grapes.
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