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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Ironstone Vineyards isIronstone Vineyards is the most comprehensively entertainment-destination-complete and museum-gold-rush-historically-rich Sierra Foothills wine estate in California.
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John Kautz —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.
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The 4,000-capacity IronstoneThe 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.
"John Kautz's 1989 Murphys Sierra Foothills estate with California's largest music amphitheatre in wine country — the Kau"
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Symphony
Obsession Symphony
Calaveras County / Ironstone Estate
Ironstone's most distinctively varietal-named and symphony-musical-naming-celebrating Calaveras County white — Obsession Symphony from the most entertainment-amphitheatre-music-concert-venue and Heritage-Museum-gold-rush-historically-rich Sierra Foothills destination, the most individually Symphony-variety-named and musical-name-connection-celebrating white wine in the most comprehensively entertainment-and-museum-destination California wine estate appointment.
Estate
★★★★☆
Zinfandel
Calaveras County Zinfandel
Calaveras County / Ironstone Estate
Ironstone's most Gold-Rush-historically-Calaveras-County-rich and heritage-mountain-Sierra-Foothills Zinfandel — estate Zinfandel from the most comprehensively 4,000-capacity-amphitheatre-44-pound-gold-nugget-museum-cave-tasting-destination-entertainment Sierra Foothills wine estate, concentrated and food-compatible in the most broadly family-welcoming and gold-rush-historically-rich walk-in format.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc
Calaveras County / Ironstone Estate
Ironstone's most individually Cabernet-Franc-varietal-Sierra-Foothills-heritage and museum-gold-rush-historically-rich estate expression — Calaveras County Cabernet Franc from the most entertainment-amphitheatre-destination-complete and Heritage-Museum-Gold-Rush-California-historically-rich Sierra Foothills walk-in wine estate, herbal and food-first.
Daily walk-in at California's most comprehensively entertainment-destination and museum-gold-rush-historically-rich Sierra Foothills wine estate — Ironstone Zinfandel, Obsession Symphony, and Cabernet Franc with cave tasting, Heritage Museum (44-pound gold nugget), deli restaurant, and 4,000-capacity Amphitheatre for nationally touring concerts. Family-friendly. The most entertainment-destination-complete and gold-rush-culturally-historically-rich California wine estate walk-in.
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