Published on Friday, November 06, 2009
By San Gabriel Valley Tribune Staff Writer
I always am happy to point out, preferably over a glass of wine, that our own Cucamonga Valley is California's oldest wine country, dating back to 1838. At its peak, during the 1940s, the region boasted 60 wineries and 45,000 acres of planted grapes, which at the time was more than Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley combined. The 4,000-acre Italian Vineyard Co. (later Brookside Winery) in Guasti was for awhile the world's largest winemaking operation.
Fall was a special time of year in the old Cucamonga Valley. The vineyards were picked, the vats were filled and the region's pioneer wine families celebrated the harvest with parties that would last for days.
Today, only a vestige of the Cucamonga Valley wine country remains, but fall is still a special time of year. Rancho de Philo in Alta Loma is preparing for its once-yearly sale of prize-winning triple cream sherry
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