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Bokisch Vineyards in Lodi is offering their first “La Primavera” Farm-to-Fork Dinner on Saturday, April 22. Get your tickets while you can.

The Newcomers With all due respect to Creedence Clearwater Revival, but there are some people who choose to get stuck in Lodi on purpose. The term “new to Lodi” used to mean that your family had been here only two or three generations. But now there’s a whole new breed of growers and vintners (call them the omni-generationals) putting an exciting spin on what it means to be able to put the name Lodi on a bottle of wine. They’re bringing with them new ideas and new techniques, along with a deep appreciation and understanding of the unique conditions that make this one of the premier wi...

Sacramento Magazine your username your email your username your email Liz and Markus Bokisch are local wine visionaries and pioneers. In the late 1990s, they were some of the first in California to wholeheartedly commit to the cultivation and vinification of Spanish grapes in California. Markus’s Catalan heritage, combined with their shared history of living and working in Spain in the early 1990s, inspired the Bokisches to purchase vineyard property in Lodi in 1995 and plant it with Iberian grape varieties. They started with 20 acres, and now hold 2,500 acres of vines ...

Many Lodi wineries will start releasing their newest vintages this spring. But if you can’t wait that long, there are plenty of delicious recent releases from Lodi’s family farmers and winemakers to tide you over. Here are a several suggestions from wineries on the east side of Lodi: 2019 Acquiesce Winery Ingénue ($34) This rare blend of white Rhone varieties grenache blanc, clairette blanche, bourboulenc and picpoul blanc from Susan and Rodney Tipton’s estate in Acampo in the Mokelumne River micro-AVA gives delicate aromas of white flowers, mandarin and sage that yields to an explos...