Sonoma County, California. Winemaker - Joseph J. Wagner. Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of men. Without the cultivation of the earth, he is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up the chase, and fixes himself in some place and seeks a living from the earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. - Senator Daniel Wester (1840).