It was located in a small area of defunct City Brewery on Spring street three blocks west of Deer Creek.
[2] A year later produced 8,000 gallons of wine, enough to require it to buy up all the empty liquor casks in town to hold it.
[3][4] Despite enthusiastic newspaper coverage, locals favored beer at least as well and prohibition further suppressed winemaking in Nevada City.
[5] But the mass production of cheap wines elsewhere in California, as well as the abundant grapes grown in that state's central valley, put a decades-long halt to wine-making and the last winery closed in the early 1950s.
[4] Snow Mountain Winery opened in 1980, the first to bring professional winemaking back to the city.