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TheEmbassy
Suites San Luis Obispo Hotel is conveniently located in the
heart of California's Central Coast, just off Highway 101,
and near the Napa Valley.
For more than 150 years, vineyards have been part of the
Napa Valley landscape. George Yount planted the first Napa
Valley vineyards in 1838; the town of Napa was laid out in
1848; by the mid-1850s there were about 50,000 grapevines
planted in Napa Valley -- by 1860 there were about 200,000.
The industry continued to expand, and by the late 1860s there
were 50 vintners in Napa Valley. Wines from Inglenook, Charles
Krug, Beringer and others won international acclaim in the
late 19th century.
As early as 1948 the Napa Valley Vintners welcomed visitors
to Napa Valley by sponsoring promotional activities showcasing
the wines. For example, 700 Harvard University graduates were
hosted by the vintners in 1949 and 2,000 guests from General
Electric enjoyed a western-style barbecue with Napa Valley
wines at the Napa County Fairgrounds in 1952.
Nearly 300 Napa Valley wineries ranging in size from small,
family-owned wineries producing as few as 250 cases of wine
annually, to multinational corporations selling millions of
cases of wine each year.
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