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Canandaigua and Naples in a 1964 winery register
A federal authorization list puts Canandaigua Industries and Widmer’s Wine Cellars on the page under their own names and identifiers.
Canandaigua Industries appears without a vineyard description or tasting-room invitation. The federal list dated July 1, 1964 gives the company’s place as Canandaigua, its registry number as 585 and its permit as 2-W-173. Bonded Wineries and Bonded Wine Cellars Authorized to Operate, July 1, 1964.
Two pages later, Widmer’s Wine Cellars has its own line: Naples, registry 43, permit W-776. The list keeps the company names and locations separate. It does not rank their wine or count their bottles. Bonded Wineries and Bonded Wine Cellars Authorized to Operate, July 1, 1964.
Cornell University appears too, with an Experimental Wine Cellar at Geneva. That entry is a reminder to read the document on its own terms. This was a record of authorized wineries and wine cellars, not a guide to public places to visit. Bonded Wineries and Bonded Wine Cellars Authorized to Operate, July 1, 1964.
The rows give us dated identities to follow into company papers. They do not establish where the grapes were grown, who harvested them or how ownership changed later. Those connections need contracts, correspondence and business records beyond this list. Bonded Wineries and Bonded Wine Cellars Authorized to Operate, July 1, 1964.
Sources & research notes
Review status: Developing history. Human editorial review is pending.
Written and source-checked with AI assistance under an owner-authorized editorial process. This is not a personal review by Riley or an independent historian. Sources and unresolved questions are listed below; corrections are welcome.
- What the records establish
- The inspected cover and New York rows establish the dated listed names, places and printed identifiers.
- What remains uncertain
- Authorization is not output, continuous operation, current licensing or proof of an ownership chain. No named workforce or grape-supply relationship has been demonstrated.
- What we are researching next
- Trace the exact historical business names and identifiers into licensing, corporate, grower-contract and production records; preserve differences between a company, brand and facility.
Sources
- Bonded Wineries and Bonded Wine Cellars Authorized to Operate, July 1, 1964 — United States Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division; 1964-07-01. Locator: Cover / PDF 1; Printed 18 / PDF 19; Printed 20 / PDF 21. Exact sub-passages registered separately; titles/columns/units checked against the retained source. Accessed October 22, 2026.