Comments on: E&J Gallo Winery

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:16:00 +0000

oops, one more thing about the place. The hot end of the plant is where they form the glass bottles. The bottles get as hot as lava so the entire wharehouse is at about 130 degrees year round long. Very dangerous.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:14:07 +0000

lmfao… My dad works there. I live in modesto. The vineyard is on the otherside of town. One of the vineyards anyways. It’s some big vine fields.

By: Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:48:43 +0000

Papapenguin – actually, it’s not frozen. If you zoom in all the way, you can see that the sun just happened to be reflecting back during that portion of the picture.

By: MattBrown

MattBrown — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:05:55 +0000

You might be surprised that Gallo doesn’t produce all garbage. In wine alone, they have almost 30 different labels. Have you tried Rancho Zabaco? That’s actually Gallo, even though they hide the fact. I’m sure most of the labels are bad, but not all.

I definitely wouldn’t say this is the “amerification” of a culture or producing wine. If that were the case, what are the good American wineries doing?

On the whole, however, I agree with the assessment of normal Gallo wine. I was in Belgium and saw an isle in a grocery store with the label “California Wine” and all I saw was Gallo. I was pretty sad that was how the rest of the world saw us. On the other hand, more of the good stuff for me!

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:52:50 +0000

Wow. I’ve been known to snarkily refer to “the tank farms of Ernest and Julio Gallo”, and now I see how right I was.

By: Papapenguin

Papapenguin — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:49:53 +0000

There is a really cool Californian “frozen” lake/reservoir just South West:

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Some very nice rock formations as well.

By: marsh

marsh — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:34:01 +0000

This is the McDonald's of wine. This is the amerification of the thousands of years old culture of producing probably the most fantastic drink mankind has ever had.

From my point of view, this is disgusting. I'd never buy such a "wine" (yuk!) even if it costs only 10% of a real wine.

This really sucks!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:06:15 +0000

You don't realize how much something is consumed until you see a picture of factory that is so big...

Crazy.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:09:05 +0000

Gallo also makes the infamous “wine” Thunderbird http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html

By: johnnycat

johnnycat — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:24:04 +0000

I wouldn’t call it “wine”. “Wino-fuel” is probably more appropriate.