Deserted Fremont Wine
Today the Alameda County area has been producing some spectacular wines and it definitely has a place on the map of wineries to visit and taste. It is inland from the coast so it doesn’t get the fog and wind from the sea. It has gained more notoriety as the wine consumption of the 80s, 90s and 2000s has grown. The wineries of Fremont California and the surrounding areas has been here for centuries. The first marked wineries were planted by the Mission San Jose in 1797. The area was bought and sold many times over the hundreds of years in this county until they moved out in 1997. There really aren’t to many wineries left in the city of Fremont itself but there is some interesting history stored at the Museum of Local History which is located on Anza Street there you will find information on the history of the wine makers in the area.
Why did they go? It seems that they had their share of problems and the the land owners got frustrated eventually. Even in the early days, the phylloxera infestations killed off much of the heritage vines. It cost so much to replace the vines that many growers decided to go with another form of fruit. Sometimes they decided to just sell off the land for agricultural use. Then the earthquake in the early 1900s added to the damage of the vineyards of the area. the bigger winery of the time, Gallegos/Palmdale Winery, was sadly destroyed. Then next hardship to come was the Prohibition in the 1920s. This stopped the growth completely for a while. The area did make a small comeback but finally in the 1960s the urban sprawl took over the land. The price of developing the land was just to great to pass up. Stay at one of the hotels Fremont has waiting and visit the beautiful are for yourself.
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