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Bob Highfill LODI – COVID-19. Smoke. Drought. The year 2020 was one to remember or forget, depending on whom you ask in the Lodi wine community. The pandemic forced wineries to close tasting rooms and cancel events. Unprecedented wildfires in size and number blanketed the Central Valley with smoke, and rainfall was about half of normal. Yet, Lodi’s wine grape growers and wineries persevered. “I think we are all happy to see 2020 pass on all fronts,” said Stuart Spencer, executive director of the Lodi Winegrape Commission and winemaker at St. Amant Winery in Lodi. “I feel blessed to be in the wine and grape business. People have continued to support and drink wine through this, and many other businesses and industries have suffered far greater than we have.” ....
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. ....