An innovative, cutting edge winery and custom crush facility, Peltier Winery and Vineyards crafts outstanding wines
Unlike many emerging wineries that were products of romantic wine industry imagery on the part of their owners, Lodi’s Peltier Winery came into being as a result of a winery’s need to utilize its extensive facilities.
To clarify that statement, it must be understood that Peltier Winery’s owners, the Schatz Family, were basically farmers and producers of wines that were sold to other wineries who needed sound, well-made wines for their various businesses. When it became evident that a large, modern state-of-the-art production winery was necessary for continued growth, a marvelous facility was erected on property the family owned in the rustic town of Acampo, in the Lodi Appellation of the Central Valley.
“The market basically helped me decide to build the winery,” offered Rodney Schatz, spokesman for the Schatz Family. “The fact is there was a tremendous amount of vineyard development going on at the start of the new millennium. This actuality produced an abundance of grapes and the Lodi area was caught with insufficient local production facilities. We saw the opportunity and need for a good deal of stainless development and jumped right in. The main winery was completed in 2001 and has proven to be a real economic success for us.”
While the Schatz Family’s main holdings were in vineyard property, they also farmed additional crops (peaches, cherries, etc.) and received a great deal of notoriety for their efforts. One of the family’s matriarchs, Theresa Marengo, was featured nationally for her superb cherry orchards during the 1970’s.
