About Ironstone Vineyards
Ironstone Vineyards is the most comprehensively entertainment-destination-complete and museum-gold-rush-historically-rich Sierra Foothills wine estate in California. John Kautz — the Lodi and Sierra Foothills farming entrepreneur whose vision for the Six Mile Road Murphys estate extended far beyond conventional wine estate hospitality — built a destination that combines estate Sierra Foothills wine production with California's largest outdoor amphitheatre in wine country, an extraordinary Heritage Museum housing the world's largest crystalline gold specimen (a 44-pound gold nugget recovered from the California Gold Rush country), extensive cave systems for barrel aging and tasting, a deli restaurant, organic garden, and live concert programming that attracts nationally touring music acts.
The 4,000-capacity Ironstone Amphitheatre — hosting nationally touring performers from country, rock, pop, and classical music throughout the spring and summer season — creates a wine country entertainment destination experience unlike any other available in the California Sierra Foothills or any other California wine region outside Paso Robles's Vina Robles Amphitheatre.
The estate wine program — Calaveras County Zinfandel, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Obsession Symphony Blanc, and other varieties from the Kautz family's Sierra Foothills vineyards — produces wine of genuine estate character with the family's most comprehensively destination-entertainment and Gold-Rush-Heritage-Museum-historically-rich Sierra Foothills wine estate identity that makes every Ironstone visit simultaneously a serious estate wine education and a comprehensive Gold Rush country entertainment-and-culture destination.
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