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Although Salvestrin Estates Vineyard and Winery is presently celebrating 75 years of operation, winegrapes have been grown on the property twice that many years \u2014 giving the vineyard one of the longest histories to be found anywhere in the Napa Valley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The original vintner, Dr. George Crane, came to St. Helena from San Jose in 1858. Crane was a prominent physician \u2014 the director of what is now Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara County\u2019s public hospital \u2014 who chose viticulture over medicine, Susanne Salvestrin said, \u201cbecause he decided that he could make more money growing grapes than he could being a physician.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1862 is first vintage<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He was as much an innovator as a doctor, she added. Crane and a partner, the famed George C. Yount, were among the first to plant European grape varieties in California. Two blocks of the vineyard\u2019s old zinfandel they planted remain to this day, according to the vineyard and winery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From San Jose, Dr. Crane brought cuttings believed to have been Isabella, Black Malvoise, Johannisberg Reisling, Black Burgundy, Joseph St. Alban and Muscat of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Three years after his initial vine planting, Dr. Crane welcomed his first vintage of wine in 1862. He continued planting until he had approximately 100 acres of producing vines on what was originally a 300-acre holding. Dr. Crane maintained a nursery, a vineyard and a winery on the property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the decade preceding his demise at the age of 92 in 1898, Dr. Crane leased much of his land to another viticulturist, Rudolph Lemme. In the same era, much of the vineyard acres were sold off or ceded to helping progress in St. Helena. St. Helena High School, for example, sits on 17 acres of donated land.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Crane knew his share of tragedy. Two of his grandsons died at an early age \u2014 one by drowning, the other by suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Visitors to the century-and-a-half-old house on the Salvestrin property are stunned by the 19th-century furniture that remains in the living room and looks pretty much as it must have to Dr. Crane. Better, in fact, than furniture of that era that is roped off in some museums. \u201cPeople still use it,\u201d said Salvestrin. \u201cThey don\u2019t come in here often, but they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By 1932, when the first of three generations of Salvestrins purchased the property, it was down to 26 acres of vineyards. Presently, the Salvestrin family has 20 acres in grapes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Typical of the small quality wineries that have been the bedrock of global recognition for American wines, Salvestrin sells about 3,000 cases a year with cabernet sauvignon accounting for more than 50 percent of the volume (1,500 to 1,700 cases), according to vineyard manager Richard Salvestrin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since John and Emma Salvestrin\u2019s acquistion, the vineyard has nurtured cab, merlot, petite sirah, zinfandel and a limited amount of sangiovese.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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John\u2019s son, Ed, farmed the property along with wife Susanne while Ed worked at the St. Helena post office. Their son, Richard, joined the vineyard and winery\u2019s management after earning his degree in viticulture from Fresno State University in 1987.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As well as vineyard manager, he is co-winemaker with Kent Barthman, who has been a Salvestrin family consultant since 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Barthman\u2019s timing in joining the Salvestrins was coincidental with the family\u2019s construction of a new winery on the estate \u2014 there to combine state-of-the-art wine technology with traditional old-world methods in the production of handcrafted Napa Valley cab, sangiovese, retaggio (red blend), sauvignon blanc and petite sirah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Seven years earlier Salvestrin began bottling its own wines after years of selling their grapes to leading Napa Valley wineries, such as Freemark Abbey, Raymond, Rombauer, Robert Biale and Rutherford Hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The move allowed the family to control every aspect of the winemaking process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So what does a vineyard and winery of such a remarkable vintage do next?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWith any luck at all, it will be another 75 years,\u201d said Richard.<\/p>\n

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