The Heart of California’s
Gold Country

The 2012 Barbera Festival SOLD OUT!

Saturday June 9th, 2012

11am to 4pm

What is the Barbera Festival?

• An outdoor wine and food festival focusing on Barbera wines
• Among vineyards and rolling hills
• More than 80 wineries from all over California
• 10 top area restaurants and chefs offering gourmet food
• Live music
• Local artists and vendors
• Beer and white wine available for purchase
• All net proceeds from the event go to the Amador Community Foundation to be distributed to local charitable causes.

Rediscover the Mother Lode

With dozens of wineries to choose from, Amador County and the Sierra Foothills surrounding Plymouth, CA provide a wonderful growing environment for producing award-winning wines. 

Why not Rediscover the Mother Lode?

Get away from the city and leisurely wind your way through the rolling Sierra Foothills filled with the patchwork of vineyards, stopping along the way to taste the offerings of the local vintners. At times you may feel like you have the whole Shenandoah Valley to yourself. That feeling today has been shared for over two centuries when wine making in California began - long before the gold rush.

Wine tasting around the Plymouth area takes you back to the wine making roots of California. Originally planted in the 1700's, grapevines have dotted the landscape early in California's rich history.  The foothills produced some of the first wines in California during the Gold Rush.  Some vineyards have vines dating back to the 1800's.  Today the tradition of producing award-winning varieties of wine continues.

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