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FICKLIN VINEYARDS

Photo of Golden Lab next to Ficklin Old Vine Tinta Poster

Man's Best Friend

Bottle stack of ageing Port in the Adobe Cellar

Stairway to Heaven

Guest in costume as Starwars Stormtrooper tasting Port on Halloween

May The Port Be With You

Two guests enjoying the last drop of Port in their glasses

Good To The Last Drop

Historic Adobe Building at Dusk

Owl sitting in tree near vineyard

Beauty and Wisdom

Newly Bottled Port, labeled and stacked in bin

Ready for Release

Ficklin Vineyards store display poster from the 1950s.

Advertising Circa 1953

Grapes in picking trailers awaiting their turn to be crushed.

Grapes Arriving for First Crush

Grapes traveling up the conveyor from the dump hopper to the crusher.

Captain Bob pouring a taste of Port for a guest at Ficklin Vineyards.

Captain Bob Pouring at Winetrail

Leaves emerging from buds on 70 year old grapevine.

Tender Bud Break

Fall colors in the vineyard's grape leaves

Autumn's Return

The Old Vine Tinta Solera barrels in the Adobe building, with rays of light cast from above.

Heaven's Cellar

Carson and Kenny looking thoughtful while tasting different Ports for the Halloween candy pairings. Carson says, "Dang, that's good" and Kenny says "nice finish..."

Halloween Candy Pairings

Grapes in picking trailer at the end of the vineyard row.

Picnic basket featuring a 375 ml bottle of Old Vine Tinta Port and an assortment of foods

Delicious Choices

A 6-count box of Old Vine Tinta filled chocolate candies and one cut open showing the Port liquid Port filling coming out.

Port-Filled Chocolates

The Government Office entrance on the historic Adobe Cellar.

Historic Government Office

Two small blue eggs in a bird's nest in a tree on the winery property.

An assortment of 4 bottles of Ficklin Tawny Ports on a barrel top with an assortment of Payne Mason cigars.

Match Made in Heaven

Three gold-medal winning Ficklin Ports displayed with ribbons around each bottle on a 3-level platform with flowers in front of them--like in the Olympic ceremonies: Old Vine Tinta, Aged 10-Years Tawny, and 1996 Vintage Ports.

Gold Medal Winners

A 375 ml bottle of Aperitif do Sol laying on 4 Adobe bricks in the sun.

Slightly Drier Aperitif

Employee Carson in hiking attire and a walking stick greeting guests for the release of S'MORES in the evening.

Leading You to S'MORES

A new Ficklin Ruby Port with a Cortica Club label in a blue and white Portuguese tray in front of an Adobe wall.

Celebrating Portuguese Rubys

A bottle of Legacy Port flanked by 2 burlap bottle bags--one is printed Ficklin Vineyards, and the other is printed Legacy.

Make It Your Own

A row of fruit trees with pink blossoms along the road to Ficklin Vineyards

Springtime Drive

An assortment of glass styles with various chilled Ficklin Ports, some with ice, straws, and fruit garnishes.

Four guests, with one of them holding a raised glass of Ficklin Port, sitting on straw bales in front of the vineyard.

Celebrity Chef Fabio Viviani points to a bottle he's holding of Ficklin Vineyards Liga da Caravel Tawny Port with a smile while Peter Ficklin sits beside him.

Chef Fabio Viviani with Peter Ficklin

Palamino grape juice runs from a tank of crushed grapes into Ficklin's press during harvest.

Palamino Waterfall

Three employees dressed as pirates on Halloween pretend to raid treasured Ficklin Ports as they stand among stacks of wine barrels.

October's Release

Peter Ficklin dressed as a pirate on Halloween climbing up a large, old wine cask with a bottle of Port in his hand.

Captain's Treasure

Young Peter Ficklin with his father, David Ficklin, at a Old Vine Tinta Solera Puncheon thiefing Port to taste.

Winemakers--Father and Son

Three bottles of harvest Port resting on a picnic tablecloth tossed over bales of straw.

Down-home Harvest Party

Winemaker Peter Ficklin with a wine thief at a Old Vine Tinta Solera puncheon.

Winemaker Peter Ficklin hosing out grape bins at the end of a long crush day.

A bottle of Old Vine Tinta standing in the first tier of the decorative water fountain in front of Ficklin's office

California poppies amidst the rows of the Touriga grape vines.

Wild California Poppies

Ficklin Vineyard's first winemaker, Peter's father David, stacks bottles in an early photo inside the Adobe Cellar.

A bottle of Rosé Port with a glass sits among the bare branches of a vine before the vine has leafed out for the season.

An employee dressed as an elf is photographed from behind as he sets two refillable Tappit Hen Port bottles beneath the Christmas tree.

Santa's Little Helper

A bottle of Ficklin Vineyards' Raspberry PassPort and a bottle of Chocolate PassPort next to a tall glass with straws containing a milkshake make with vanilla ice cream and Port.

Milkshake, Anyone?

A poster from TV Guide showing an episode of "The New Adventures of Old Christine" sit-com that featured a bottle of Old Vine Tinta Port. The episode was about Christine helping her son put together a school presentation on Portugal.

In the early days, grapes came to the winery in lug boxes. Here they are being dumped into the old crusher.

A frosted pitcher and wine glass of Ficklin Port over ice that's been served as Sangria.

Guests at Ficklin Vineyards' Harvest Grape Stomp enjoying the feeling of barefoot winemaking.

Stompin' With Style