In 1979, the Stonum Family purchased the property at 16400 North Alpine Road which consisted of eight acres of cherries, seven acres of Tokay grapes, and a sixty year old farmhouse. In 1981, we removed the diseased cherry orchard and planted Tokays. Wineries began offering long term contracts for wine grapes, and so in 1982 our family grafted the eight acres of Tokays to Zinfandel, and obtained a twenty year contract with Gallo Winery. The seven acres of old Tokay vines, that were sold to Gallo as a blending grape, were removed in 1988 and replanted with Zinfandel under a fifteen year contract. Funding was obtained for a new well and subsurface drip irrigation was installed in the middle of the vine rows to duplicate a single furrow. With the installation of the subsurface drip system, we transitioned from discing the ground to flail mowing a cover crop of annual grasses and clover. In 1999, an overhead trellis system was designed and both vineyards were retrained to a quadrilateral system. The same number of "fruiting buds" were maintained
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