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Wine is new gold in Calaveras County
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Ironstone Vineyards located at 1894 6 Mile Road in Murphys has grown into one of the largest wineries in California thanks to its beautiful, sprawling grounds and attractions like a 44-pound gold leaf nugget that owner John Kautz purchased after it was discovered in a mine in Jamestown. Wine aging caves that were blasted into the mountains help give Ironstone a unique fee.
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.