ナパの４大ヴィンヤーズとは？

先日ご紹介したナパのLARKMEADのカベルネ・ソーヴィニョン。

このLARKMEADそのものが、ナパの４大ヴィンヤーズの一つだと言うもの。

但しそれは、1930年代後半のこと。

禁酒法時代を経て、ようやくナパがワイン造りを再開し始めたころのお話。

Inglenook、Beaulie、 Beringer、そしてLarkmead。

これが、ナパの４大ヴィンヤーズと言われたワイナリーです。

以下、Larkmeadのサイトより

（http://www.larkmead.com/larkmead_vineyards/the_salminas.php）

In the early days at Larkmead, wine grapes sold for $14 a ton and wine for a penny a bottle. Prohibition hit hard, but Larkmead Vineyards was able to survive by selling grapes and making sacramental wine. By the late 1930s, releasing wine under its own label again, Larkmead had built an impressive reputation, regarded as the smallest of the 'big four wineries' in Napa Valley alongside Beaulieu, Inglenook and Beringer. Indeed Andre Tchelistcheff, the legendary Russian, French-trained enologist who worked at Beaulieu in 1938, talked of four "outstanding wine processing plants: Inglenook, Beaulieu, Larkmead and Beringer".