07 Oct St. Amant
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index="" side_padding="0"][vc_column width="2/3" css=".vc_custom_1711320642741{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}"][vc_column_text] St. Amant [/vc_column_text][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-facebook" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.facebook.com/stamantwine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][social_icons type="circle_social" icon="fa-instagram" use_custom_size="no" size="fa-lg" link="https://www.instagram.com/st.amant_wine" target="_blank" icon_color="#ffffff" background_color="#8b2b7a"][vc_column_text]1 Winemaster Way, Bldg. I, Lodi, CA 95240 www.stamantwine.com Region: Lodi Owner: Barbara Spencer Winemaker: Stuart Spencer About: Tim Spencer was a rebel, a troublemaker, an outside-of-the-box thinker. Tim went left when everyone else went right. In the 1970’s, when California was just falling in love with Chardonnay and Cabernet, he planted Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cao, Bastardo, and other Portuguese varieties. His Vision was simple: Grow world-class port-styled wines in his Amador County vineyard. The first harvest was sold to an equally passionate winemaker who failed to pay for the grapes. Tim, undeterred, took matters into his own hands and bootlegged several hundred gallons of freshly fermenting wine. He concluded he was quite capable of going broke himself and didn’t need anyone else’s help. That was 1981, and that wine became his very first vintage port. And St. Amant Winery was born! Over the next two decades, Tim became a leading expert, expanding the St. Amant line up to include dry table wines, white ports, and tawny ports all from traditional Portuguese varieties. When...