Gallons of wine at the Italian Vineyard Company, Guasti, 1936

Description: The evolution of California wineries is looked at, specifically the world's largest vineyard "Italian Vineyard Company" spreading 5000 acres, owned by Mrs. Secundo Guasti, Jr.
In a large hangar a long row of wooden gallons stands.
Photograph appears with the article, "'Human Element' Still Rules Wine-Making Art, but Modern Science Lends Its Wizardry, Too," Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec 1935: 10.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4971 - Interior shots of Guasti Winery in Ontario. 4/16/36 [stamped:] Apr 23 1936
Text from newspaper caption: These 1900-gallon puncheons in the immense sweet-wine aging room of the Italian Vineyard Company's Guasti winery are really just babies. They are called "pun'kins" and are dwarfed by the towering rows of 35,000 and 45,000-gallon tanks in the same room. The winery has a 5,000,000 gallon storage capacity with an annual output sometimes near that figure.

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