Bargetto Winery, 1998-2005 from the Web Winery archive
Bargetto Winery was on the original Web Winery by December 1998, with its two other labels of the time, Chaucer's and the value-priced Coastal Cellars. Its pages told the family history, introduced winemaker Paul Wofford, announced the first La Vita in 2001, and carried a month-by-month diary of the year at Regan Vineyards that John Bargetto wrote in 2002 and early 2003. 27 entries, from December 1998 to January 2003, each with a link to the original page on the Wayback Machine.
1998
Winery page
Bargetto Winery welcome page
The opening page of the Bargetto section introduced the winery as a family producer of hand-crafted Santa Cruz Mountains wines since 1933, said it concentrated on cool-climate varietals, and invited readers to visit and taste.
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Winery page
About Bargetto Winery and its three labels
This overview described Bargetto's Santa Cruz Mountains wines under winemaker Paul Wofford, including a barrel-fermented Chardonnay, a long-aged Cabernet Sauvignon and a Burgundian-style Pinot Noir, and explained the three labels: Bargetto, Chaucer's dessert wines and the value-priced Coastal Cellars.
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Winery page
Coastal Cellars, Bargetto's value label
A short page introduced Coastal Cellars, the label Bargetto Winery used for its lighter, easy-drinking, value-priced wines.
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Winery page
Coastal Cellars and Bargetto's three labels
The Coastal Cellars page set the value label beside Bargetto's other two: the Bargetto brand for premium Santa Cruz Mountains varietals and Chaucer's for fruit wines and mead. It also noted that the Coastal Cellars White Zinfandel had been discontinued.
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1999
Letter
Why buy Bargetto wines online
A shop page listed reasons to order Bargetto wines through the Aull-N-Aull WebWinery: a simple cart, secure ordering, monthly specials, award-winning wines backed by a 63-year history, and a satisfaction guarantee.
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Winery page
Chaucer's wines and a September offer
In September 1999 the Chaucer's page announced a shipping promotion on Bargetto and Chaucer's wines, described the fruit-based dessert wines, gave the medal count through 1998, and set out the states the shop could and could not ship to.
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2000
History
Bargetto family history in photos
A photo-illustrated history traced the founding brothers Phillip and John Bargetto from Piedmont, the 1960s-70s modernisation under John's son Lawrence, and the third generation's new Corralitos vineyard, with plans to try northern Italian grape varieties.
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Winemaker
Winemaker Paul Wofford
A profile of winemaker Paul Wofford covered his geology and enology studies at Fresno State, his time as winemaker at Martin Ray Vineyards, and his role since 1986 in expanding Bargetto's Santa Cruz Mountains production.
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Winery page
Bargetto Winery home page, 2000
An updated version of the Bargetto overview, written around 2000, again described the Santa Cruz Mountains Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir made under winemaker Paul Wofford, along with the winery's taste guarantee.
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2001
Press
Sentinel profile of Santa Cruz women in wine
A Santa Cruz Sentinel feature profiled women working in Santa Cruz Mountains wineries. Beverly Bargetto spoke about the family members working alongside her and what women bring to winemaking; other profiles covered Ahlgren, Byington, Devlin, Crescini and Glenwood Oaks.
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Event
La Vita release announcement
Bargetto's April 2001 press release announced the first La Vita, a 1997 estate blend of Dolcetto, Nebbiolo and Refosco, with an art-themed label honoring Caravaggio's Bacchus, a release party on 29 April 2001, and part of proceeds going to a local nonprofit.
This wine has been eight years in the making, dating back to 1993 when the varietals were chosen and vines ordered.
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History
Bargetto Winery history, expanded
An expanded family history followed Phillip and John Bargetto from Castelnuovo Don Bosco to an apple ranch near Zayante, the 1918 purchase of the Soquel Creek site, winemaking through Prohibition, Lawrence's modernisation, and the third generation's Corralitos vineyard of Italian varieties.
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2002
Winery page
Chaucer's dessert wines from Bargetto
The Chaucer's page presented Bargetto's line of dessert-style wines made from 100% fruit with no artificial flavors, styled after Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and reported the label's medal tally from 1972 through 2002.
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Newsletter
Regan Vineyards notes, January 2002
The January 2002 note from Regan Vineyards described the dormant season: waterlogged soil kept equipment out, work was limited to gopher and weed control and machinery upkeep, and pruning was held until February to lower the risk of Eutypa infection.
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Regan Vineyards notes, February 2002
The February 2002 note covered pruning at Regan Vineyards: how spur pruning set the season's crop size, why pruning was delayed to February, and the practice of sealing every pruning cut by hand against Eutypa.
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Regan Vineyards notes, March 2002
The March 2002 note described the end of pruning across the vineyard, a dormant sulfur spray against over-wintered mildew, and bud-break in the early-ripening varieties.
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Regan Vineyards notes, April 2002
John Bargetto's April 2002 note covered new shoot growth and bud-break in the late varieties such as Dolcetto, and explained why the vineyard was disced: to clear weeds, chop the winter prunings and show up gopher activity.
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Regan Vineyards notes, May 2002
The May 2002 note explained shoot removal: thinning excess young shoots by hand to open the canopy, improve fruit quality and airflow, and reduce the need for disease sprays.
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Regan Vineyards notes, June 2002
The June 2002 note described bloom, delayed into June by a cool spring, and a month of hand leaf-pulling around the clusters to give the fruit more sun and airflow and cut down on spraying.
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Regan Vineyards notes, July 2002
The July 2002 note explained veraison in Chardonnay and described shoot positioning on the lyre-type trellis used in the newer Merlot block, which keeps the vine centre open for sun exposure and disease control.
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Regan Vineyards notes, August 2002
The August 2002 note covered veraison in Pinot Noir and hand cluster thinning, explaining how removing excess, late and diseased clusters raised quality and limited disease spread.
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Regan Vineyards notes, September 2002
The September 2002 note described sugar testing as the grapes ripened, the copper tint of ripening Pinot Grigio, and the vineyard's use of deficit drip irrigation to save water in an area affected by seawater intrusion.
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Regan Vineyards overview and October 2002 notes
John Bargetto's main Regan Vineyards page described the estate vineyard in Corralitos, its cool climate, soils and wines, set out the family's approach to sustainable winegrowing, and gave the October 2002 note on the Chardonnay harvest and hand picking.
Since the topography requires it and more importantly for quality reasons, all Regan grapes are handpicked, cluster by cluster.
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Regan Vineyards notes, October 2002
The October 2002 note followed the Chardonnay harvest at Regan Vineyards: how the picking date is chosen from sugar, acidity, flavor and weather, and how every cluster is picked by hand and sorted before the short trip to the winery. It closed with the case for hand harvesting as part of sustainable winegrowing.
These vines are done for the season!
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Press
Chronicle visit to Bargetto's tasting room
A San Francisco Chronicle tasting-room review described Bargetto's rustic Soquel tasting room and creekside courtyard bar, its tiers of tastings including reserve wines and La Vita, and the Chaucer's fruit wines and mead, and gave the winery two stars.
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Newsletter
Regan Vineyards notes, November 2002
In a late 2002 vintage, the November note described the Merlot and Nebbiolo harvest and the leaves turning gold before dormancy. Its sustainable-farming topic was erosion control: ditches across the steep slopes feeding underground pipes laid in the 1930s.
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2003
Newsletter
Regan Vineyards notes, January 2003
The January 2003 note repeated the dormant-season description from a year earlier, added an introduction to the vineyard's sustainable winegrowing approach, and described weekly gopher trapping as the main pest control.
While we believe in mercy as a virtue, we have no mercy when it comes to gophers.
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