Back in the late '70's, Dan & Robyn Gehrs founded the CongressSpringsVnyds up on CongressSpringsRd in the SantaCruzMtns. Their partner, who owned the vnyd, was Vic Erikson. In the late '70's & thru the '80's, Dan made some wines at CongressSprings that I really liked, including OV Zin/Chard/PinotNoir, from that old vnyd. And somehow they connected up w/ FredFranzia/Bronco & were making Lodi wines for awhile.
When CongressSprings shut down, the property was bought by the Ballards in 1996 & renamed Savannah-Chanelle, after their two daughters. Dan then went onto become winemaker in SantaBarbara at ZacaMesa and eventually started his own label of DanGehrsWine. His daughter was also making wines under her own name for awhile. Dan retired from winemaking in 2017 and I assume still lives in the SantaYnezVlly.
So these very old vnyds planted in the '50's are still being used by Savannah-Chanelle. I've not tried these wines. Yet. Does anybody have any experinence with the Savannah-Chanelle wines. AnthonyCraig is the winemaker.
Tom