The property is defiantly not corporate. For example, their tasting room is like an old shed with character.

On a recent business trip to San Francisco we decided to extend our stay and visit the Napa and Sonoma region of California. After checking into our hotel we set out with the intent of getting lost. We made lefts and rights all the time scoping out the little wineries. after our second stop we stumbled on a real gem of Napa. Van Der Heyden Vineyards, http://www.vanderheydenvineyards.com
The property is defiantly not corporate. For example, their tasting room is like an old shed with character.So we opened our minds and started to taste the wine. I am not a big fan of whites, but my friend said he “loved this wine”.Then we tasted the late harvest desert wine, OMG it simply blew the top of my head off in both fullness and flavor. I could truly sense the love that this family has for wine making.
Well done

Buffalo 1890

Buffalo

“Albright Art Gallery” – newly completed, 1902
Cadillac accident – 1924
Scajaquada Drain Project then (1920′s) & now
100th NY Volunteers Monument – 1920
Elmwood Music Hall – c. 1915
Livestock Exchange then & now – 1901
Sisters of Charity Hospital, inside & out – pre-1900
Victory Liberty Loan Whistle Stop – 1919
Fort Porter – Gunnery Training c. 1900
Fort Porter – The Castle c. 1900
The Buffalo Pitts Company – c.1900
Republic Trucks: Borst-Damon – 1917
Buffalo Pottery Tour – 1910
Buffalo Traffic Accidents 1923-25
New York Central Terminal – 1929
Snowy Main Street – 1930′s
Heywood Wakefield, Seneca and Wells, early 1930′s
Spencer Kellogg & Sons Company – 1940
Thanksgiving Day, Depression – 1931
General Mills International Style – 1940′s
McLeod Hotel & Exchange St – c. 1930
Perry Boulevard – 1930′s
Remembering the Harbor Inn 2004
“Trestle Alley” – the only unpaved Buffalo street (2002)
509 Michigan Street – 2002
Margaret Wendt home – 2002
Bethlehem Steel aerial view – 1970′s
Philip Riter & the Eagle Boiler Works – 1870′s
African-American Soldier – 1943
Lafayette High School, then & now – 1910

Downtown Buffalo

Hengerer’s Main Street store construction site – 1903
471 Main Street 1816 – 2005
Electric Building – 1919
Shelton Square – troops returning from WWI 1918-1919
Main Street – 1929
Maisel Store – 1920′s
Washington Street (Chippewa) Market – 1910′s
Lafayette Square aerial – 1929
Townsend Hall – early 1900′s
Mohawk & Washington 1920-present
Washington & Broadway – 1920-present
German Insurance Building – 1910′s
Main Street South of Chippewa – 1929
Main Street between Chippewa & Tupper – 1920′s
Federal Reserve Building over time – 1910′s
New Chicago Lunch, 1920′s
Franklin & West Huron Street 1940′s
White Building & Weed Hardware – c. 1940′s
Gayety Theater – c. 1910
Entire City Block Demolished for Progress! – 1895
Main & Swan – pre-1895
Newsboy – 1936
Main Street – 1930′s
Main & Genesee, Christmas – 1940′s
Carl Meyer’s Hof – Court Street – 1940′s
Main & Court Streets then & now – 1950′s
Barnes & Hengerer Building, 268 Main – then & now – 1940′s
Aerial View Dowtown Buffalo, 1936
Shelton Square – 1950′s
Niagara Mohawk site aerial – 1968
Downtown early 50′s part 1
Downtown late 50′s part 2
Times Building demolition – 1967
Main & Chippewa, then & now – 1960′s
Buffalo Skyway, 1950′s
View of the future baseball stadium site – 1969
Shopping Downtown – 1962
Lafayette Square – then & now (2002)
Future Convention Center site – 1973
The Aud Pharmacy – 1967
Old Seaman’s Home – 1960′s
Exhange Street #10 – 1967
The Nimrod Hotel – 1967
193-195 Main – 1967
Main & Exchange then (1967)& now
Main & Seneca then (1967) & now
Aerial view future Pilot Field site – 1968
Chippewa & Franklin, Donald McDonald House – 1980
Selkirk House – 1980
Bathouse #1 – Terrace near Genesee – 1967
Morrison Building – 1945
Benlin Building – 1940′s
Norbans, Washington & Huron – 1950
Lower Terrace and Gasworks Building – 1942 Waterfront

The Canadiana’s maiden voyage – 1910
Waterfront: Foot of Main Street – 1900-1945
Waterfront “Idlers” – 1901
Waterfront along Fuhrmann Blvd – 1909
D. L. & W. Terminal, c. 1920
Massachusetts Pumping Station – 1920′s
Auditorium foundations – 1939
Canal Slum – 1936
Front Park viewed from Peace Bridge – 1930′s
Depression-Era Squatters: Outer Harbor – 1930′s
Lower Terrace aerial view – 1930′s
Michigan Street Bridge – pre-1939
The Frontenac in “Elevator Alley” – 1965
“Elevator Alley” – 1965
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock – 1967
Waterfront perspective aerial – late 1950′s
Ice fishing harbor, Kinsman Independent – 1967
Waterfront – 1967
Maiden Lane Paving/Wheeler Hotel – 1996
Elevator Alley aerial view – 1970′s
Ohio Street Lift Bridge – 1963
Erie Basin Marina 1930 – 1980′s
Foot of Main Street, 1890′s
Tug Martha Stewart – 1940
The Marine Star, aka Aquarama – 1956
Greater Buffalo & The U.S.S. Sable – 1940′s
City of Buffalo Lake Passenger Ship – 1900′s
Niagara River Ferries – 1920′s
The International Bridge – 1900′s
The Peace Bridge – 1930′s

Buffalo Neighborhoods

Building Buffalo Series – 1922 (then & now)
The Lenox Hotel then & now – c. 1910
Poles in Buffalo, 1870′s – 1910 – Part 1
Poles in Buffalo – Part 2
Poles in Buffalo – Part 3
Elk Street Series – Boys in the ‘Hood – c. 1915
Elk Street Series -Business District, c. 1900
Elk Street – Series – Elk Street Market – c.1900
Richmond Avenue Church of Christ – 1922
William Street near Emslie – c. 1910
Fillmore Avenue Scajaquada Drain – 1920′s
Hertel Avenue near Parkside – 1931
Clinton-Bailey Market over the years – 1939
Delavan and Grant – Then & Now 1936
Hertel and Delaware – 1937
Bailey & Ferry – Then (1938) & Now
Frank’s Casa Nova – Bailey & Ferry -1938
Delavan & Humboldt – 1937
Bidwell & Delavan – 1936
Germania Street sewer work – 1934
Walnut and Clinton Street then & now – 1937
William and Lindbergh Gas Station then & now – 1934
Broadway, then and now, 1951
488 Masten Avenue – 1936
Lindbergh Drive – 1934
Masten & East Utica – 1936
Niagara Street and Bird Avenue then & now – 1937
J.J. Albright Estate – 1908
Carnival Court Amusement Park – 1920
Gates Circle, then & now and who – early 1900′s
Allen & Elmwood, then & now – 1910
Rumsey Park – 1915
South Division Street, then & now – 1954
Willert Park & One Family’s Story – 1940′s
Baldauf & Son Feed & Grocery – 1920′s
Bird Avenue Playground, School 52 – c. 1910

Western New York

Warsaw
Niagara Falls Gorge Trolley – 1925
Niagara Falls Great Gorge Route – 1895 – 1935
Crystal Beach – 1900 – 1922
Crystal Beach miniature railroad – 1920′s
Erie Beach Park – 1900-1920 part 1
Erie Beach Park – 1920 – 1930 part 2
Covered Bridge
Holland
Auto Club of Buffalo – 1920′s
Flying Boat off Grand Island – 1920′s
Forestville Wesleyan Church, then & now – 1912
Main & Buffalo Streets, Hamburg, over the years – 1900
North Boston Fire Company, over the years – 1910
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