Hispanic winemakers ?? Roots in hard work





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This article is part of a two-part series that looks at the history of winemaking by Hispanic entrepreneurs.
During the mid-1900s, Napa Valley in California has relied heavily on labor in harvesting grapes and immigrants working in wineries. Most of the work is Hispanic. Interestingly, many people who work in the vineyards and wineries have found their calling in winemaking families and immigrants in the early years of winemaking are now own vineyards and wineries.

Just north of the city of San Francisco and slightly south of Napa and Sonoma Valley wine region is Carneros. It is a gem for wine lovers but is not usually visited by tourists who like to take wine tours in the busy northern valleys of Napa and Sonoma.

Los Carneros wineries and vineyards, which is controlled by the family of Mexican immigrants to the region's agricultural workers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Most have returned to Mexico, but returned to the area, some of their families. Working in someone else's vineyard only strengthened their resolve to capture the dream of American and become winemakers.


The story is called a Hispanic entrepreneur Chey success taste features Amelia and Pedro Ceja two children of Mexican immigrant farm workers, who fall in love with the wine. Amelia and Pedro hold degrees from the University of California. Mr. Pedro ?? In engineering and Amelia ?? In providing hospitality services. His father, Pedro ?? s, Armando went to the University of California, Davis, and consumption of technology viticulture famous schools offer.

Today Cejas who owns a vineyard where a thriving and producing a wine called Ceja Vineyard. They make a variety of wines with a total production of about 23,000 cases a year.

Ceja Vineyards is not unique. Many of the best vineyards in Carneros and along the Pacific Ocean, is controlled by the family of Hispanic immigrants. Their story is similar. They had come to seek the dream American family labored in the fields, save their money and to start a business. Wines produced by these vineyards reminded that it was not long ago that Mexican workers have been searched farms after their hard work. It is an attribute that will lead them to become entrepreneurs, some of the United States ?? The most prominent of these.


Most of this family story is similar. Hard work, financial resources, and material sacrifices to allow these families to become a successful entrepreneur who now Hispanic business leaders in their communities and in the wine industry. Here are just some of the leaders of the Hispanic considerably and their families who achieved outstanding success, the winemakers.


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