Last year Delicato Family Vineyards completed an acquisition of the Blossom Hill Winery from Treasury Wine Estates. The winery, now called Alba Coast Winery, provides Delicato with an additional four million cases of growth capacity.
The name Alba means “dawn” or “sunrise” in Italian and reflects a new dawn for the pioneering winery, which was established during the Central Coast wine and vineyard development. “My grandfather started with a single winery almost 100 years ago and as we continue to grow our business and expand our luxury portfolio, taking steps to insure quality winemaking will remain our top priority," noted Delicato President and CEO Chris Indelicato.
Donald Wirz, Facility Winemaker at Alba Coast Winery, previously worked at the facility over the past six years joined Delicato in September to help transition them into the new facility and begin storing wine. Delicato has no immediate plans to add additional employees at this time.
According to CEO Indelicato, no new wine brands will come from the winery, but the company will use the additional capacity to grow Delicato’s premium and ultra-premium wines from the Monterey and Central Coast region such as Noble Vines, Gnarly Head, Z. Alexander Brown, Diora, and Irony. The winery will also support the company's two premier Central Coast vineyards, one in the San Bernabe American Viticultural Area (AVA), located in southern Monterey County and the second in the Santa Lucia Highlands, as well as a number of grower partners.
Delicato Family Vineyards is family-owned company founded in 1924. Four generations of the Indelicato family have managed vineyard operations and winemaking at their California properties.