Dvine Wine and Visitos Guide April 2007

Woodbridge Winery
Woodbridge Golf & Country Club


Berghold Victorian Winery & Vineyards
Old Arch Brewing Co. & Restaurant

Vintage Wines Abound at Cooper Vineyards
Peirano Estate Vineyards
Wine Tasting 101 with Brian
Wine Tasting 101 		Ty's Culinary Corner
Culinary Corner:
Wine Education
WINE EDUCATION:
Grenache

 


Woodbridge Golf & Country Club in its 83rd year is prospering in the new millennium with a philosophy that connects the historic with the contemporary while embracing family, fun and harmony.
Woodbridge, California, is a small, historic community whose name has become synonymous with great wine. Adjacent to the Lodi Wine Country, Woodbridge provides a superb setting in which to showcase a classic course that emerged from meager beginnings. The Club's roots are set deep in tradition, dating to March of 1924 when Mr. Claude Holmes and two other gentlemen decided it was time to create a local golf course. Annoyed by the time it took traveling back and forth to Stockton these fellows decided a golf course would look good on the Thompson-Folger Estate along the magnificent Mokelumne River.
With the help of two unemployed horses (Ben and Dick), the partners began the arduous task of clearing land along the northeast portion of the property until it was finally cleared. After a great deal of work the gentleman at last decided the course was ready for play. In pioneering sportsmen style, when beginning a hole, balls were “teed up” upon ordinary doormats on which mounds of sand were erected as to elevate the ball. Upon reaching the putting area, tomato cans had been inserted into the sandy greens to serve as cups. Archaic by today’s standards – Yes, but the spirit of those early days still lives on when you visit this lovely course.

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