Callaway Vineyard & Winery is in Temecula in Southern California, northeast of San Diego. The 70-acre estate grows a wide variety of grapes for red and white wines. The winery was founded in the early 1970s by Ely Reeves Callaway Jr., a Georgia-born entrepreneur who turned his experience with his family’s textile mills into a contract to supply US Army with uniforms. He also developed an early love of golf, and is the man behind the “Big Bertha” Callaway golf club. But in the 1970s he concentrated on winemaking. He sold the estate to Hiram Walker in 1981 and today it is privately owned by the Lin family. The estate makes a large portfolio of red, white and dessert wines under the direction of winemaker Craig Larson.
South Coast AVA is an appellation that includes vineyards in five counties in Southern California. Those counties are Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. The designation was established in 1985. There are about 3,000 vineyard acres within the appellation.
Despite its popularity, this grape is quite rare. Less than 10,000 acres are planted worldwide, with the bulk in California. In France, the grape is referred to as Durif. Not to be confused with Syrah, Petite Sirah is a cross of Syrah and Peloursin. The result is darker and fuller.
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