Gold Rush Redux

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Contemporary Conquistador
Long Island's Bridle and Bottle Soiree

Prospectors have been replaced by winemakers in the Sierra Nevada foothills

Tara Weingarten
Issue: October 31, 2003

California's Gold Rush swept through the Sierra Nevada foothills a century and a half ago, but today adventurous winemakers and restaurateurs are staking their claims in these hills. In addition to the natural beauty of the rolling landscape and pine and oak forests, there's an unpretentiousness here -- not unlike Napa Valley 30 years ago.