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Mendocino County

October 14

October 14, 1066: On this day, the Norman Conquest of England began with the Battle of Hastings, a conflict between an English force led by Harold Godwinson and a Norman-French army led by William, […]

October 13

October 13, 1983: El Dorado AVA was established in El Dorado County, located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; it's a sub-AVA of Sierra Foothills AVA. The AVA is elevated above 2000ft […]

October 27

October 27, 1581: On this day, Francisco de Aguirre died. Son of Constanza de Meneses and Hernando de la Ra, Francisco de Aguirre was born in 1580. He enlisted in Carlos I's army and […]

August 8

August 8, 1856: On this day, pathologist Newton Pierce was born. The unknown disease that devastated wide swaths of grape vines in Southern California, USA, was originally described by Newton Pierce in 1892. The […]

February 16

February 16, 1435: This day marks the earliest recorded mention of Riesling grapes in Germany, from a storage inventory of a small principality. February 16, 1959: On this day, the re-classification of the red […]

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