Some of the first, family ancestors arrived in California in 1835 where they settled in the town of Lockeford. Our great grandfather, Herman Walter Ehlers, began his education in wine, in 1921, working at the “National Fruit Product Company” which later became the Shewan-Jones Winery in Lodi. His first job was moving wine around in the cellar as a young teenager, where he remembers the grapes being brought to the winery by horse and wagon. Eight years later, Herman Ehlers became a winemaker for Shewan-Jones.

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