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CALIFORNIA NOUVELLES
DE BOISSET
1ST SEMESTER
2025

Buena Vista named

best winery in Sonoma!

The winners of the Sonoma Valley People’s Choice Awards, There is now a tasting programme offered across the various
organised by two local newspapers (the Santa Rosa Press different spaces (bar, cellar, bubble lounge, Champagne
Democrat and the Sonoma Index-Tribune), were revealed cellar), as well as private events, for both club members and
on 25 September 2024. The public have voted: Buena Vista the general public. For California’s oldest winery, founded
is Sonoma locals’ favourite winery! in 1857, history is of course particularly showcased via a
The one hundred or so winners gathered at Buena Vista spectacular museum area.
itself the very next day to accept their awards at a reception. Their range of Californian wines, which can also be tasted
Since it reopened in 2012 after months of work, this historic at the Tasting Room in Napa (opened in 2021), touches
monument has been completely renovated, restored to its on the various pages in their history with Cuvée Sheriff,
former glory and reopened to the public. It pays tribute the Champagne Heritage Collection, or the flagship wine,
to its founder, the Hungarian adventurer and ‘purple gold’ Chateau Buena Vista Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley,
pioneer Agoston Haraszthy who transformed this site into made by talented winemaker Brian Maloney. And not
an incredible estate, the only one to survive the 1906 San forgetting the Hungarian wines, in a cheeky nod to the
,
Francisco earthquake. ‘Count’ whose story is a novel in and of itself!

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