FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
FTV: St. Amant Winery in Lodi carries on a family tradition with port-style wines [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
Port likely isn’t the first wine style one associates with Lodi.
But some of the best port-style wines in California have been crafted for decades by St. Amant, a family-owned-and-operated winery in Lodi.
The story of how a wine named for the seaport city of Porto at the mouth of the Douro River in Portugal came to be made in the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra foothills dates five decades and speaks to a family’s determination, perseverance and penchant for the path of most resistance.