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The festival features seven different wineries, all within close range of each other.

The state also accounts for about 85% of wines produced in the United States and is home to thousands of grape growers and wineries, many of them small and generations-old.

But the bigger problem today is that about half of all the wineries in the state are experiencing negative growth, including the biggest names in the business: Gallo, the Wine Group and Constellation.

His resignation comes after he was criticised last October for calling a winery worker a "loser"- including putting his fingers in an 'L' shape on his forehead - and allegedly using an expletive directed at them.

The name of Herrera’s winery, which means “my dream,” reflected his unlikely path.