By JASON CAMPBELL 209 staff reporter MURPHYS – It was once a mining town boasted visitors like humorist Mark Twain and Civil War General and future President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. But today the lifeblood of Murphys isn’t the gold that once set deep in the Calaveras County hillsides and creek beds, but the fruit of the vines that have popped up all around the quaint mountain enclave that plays big on its Irish roots. Wine is the new gold in Calaveras County.
Wine is new gold in Calaveras County

