Truchard Vineyards

Truchard Vineyards is a winery in California. According to its official website, its wines are 100% grown, bottled and produced at Truchard Vineyards. The estate traces its family wine tradition in the U.S. back over a century, beginning in 1887 when Jean Marie Truchard emigrated from a small town outside of Lyon together with his brother, Father Anthony Marie Truchard, and the two established a vineyard and winery on a 500-acre plot of land in Southeast Texas.

The Truchard family wine tradition in the U.S. began over a century ago. In 1887, Jean Marie Truchard emigrated from a small town outside of Lyon, together with his brother, Father Anthony Marie Truchard, a Catholic priest. Together they established a vineyard and winery on a 500-acre plot of land in Southeast Texas. At that time phylloxera was devastating the vineyards in Europe; although no formal records exist, it is possible that Jean Marie and Anthony left because this root louse caused the grape vines in France to quickly shrivel and die, and this may also have influenced the brothers to plant a more disease-resistant grape called Herbemont that was originally grown in the northern part of Africa, a French colony at the time. In those days, Texas was recognized for viticulture, given its "can-do" spirit and local botany knowledge. Despite these facts and their best efforts, the Truchard winery, founded just outside Houston, did not survive prohibition or the Texas heat; however, the old barn that housed it still stands today. Jean Marie left his farming legacy: although the vineyards were converted for cattle grazing, Jean Marie's grandson Tony eventually inherited his love of farming and pioneering spirit. Born in Texas along with his six brothers and sisters, Tony was taught at a young age how to cultivate the land in the same tradition; he enrolled at the University of Texas Austin and subsequently decided to go to medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, in August of 1963 just before starting medical school.

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