Chatom Vineyards and Winery To Be Sold At Auction June 26

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Chatom Vineyards and Winery will be sold at auction at 2 p.m. June 26 at the winery: 1969 Highway 4 in Douglas Flat, Calaveras County.

The approximately 775-acre property will be offered in two parcels at auction with equipment and bottled estate wine inventory included for beginning immediate operations.

Parcel One includes the fully operational Winery with current production averaging approximately 12,000 cases annually (permitted to 25,000 cases) and Parcel Two is comprised of the approximately 744-acre ranch with a 64-acre vineyard and residence.

Newmark Cornish & Carey Wine Services and Williams & Williams Worldwide Real Estate Auction are jointly handling the event.

Designed to be eco-friendly with a rammed-earth designed structure, Chatom Winery is the centerpiece of the 32-acre Parcel One which comprises a tasting room with office space and an upstairs apartment unit, crushpad, barrel room, wine cellar and catering equipment to host events in the landscaped gardens.

Located just 12 miles from the Winery in the picturesque Esmeralda Valley of Calaveras County, Chatom Vineyards is part of Parcel Two, an approximately 744-acre working ranch which also includes an approximately 4,000-square-foot main residence with swimming pool, homes for the ranch managers and hands, barns, sheds, workshops and small livestock pasture.

Notably, the main residence was reportedly built on the site of the old Post Office where Mark Twain mailed his now famous manuscript. The historical site also contains Indian grinding rocks and mine claims from the gold rush days with mine shafts and antique mining equipment remaining on site.

Chatom Vineyards consists of 64 acres of approximately 30-year-old vines planted to Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Zinfandel, Merlot, Sangiovese, Semillon and five Portuguese varietals. It sits at a 1,500-foot elevation in the Sierra Foothills Appellation of Northeastern California.

The auction will take place at Chatom Winery with nominal opening bids of $500,000 per parcel. Bidders are able to attend the live auction on site or may bid simultaneously online from anywhere around the world through Williams & Williams sister company at auctionnetwork.com.

About Newmark Cornish & Carey

Newmark Cornish & Carey is part of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, one of the world’s leading commercial real estate advisory firms. Regionally, Newmark Cornish & Carey has more than 280 agents in 13 offices throughout Northern California

About Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is a  commercial real estate advisory firm. Together with London-based partner Knight Frank and independently-owned offices, NGKF’s 12,000 professionals operate from more than 330 offices in established and emerging property markets on six continents.

NGKF is a part of BGC Partners, Inc., a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets.

About Williams & Williams

Williams & Williams is a worldwide real estate auction firm with more than a century of experience. A full-service brokerage with an operating footprint in all 50 United States and U.S. Territories, Williams & Williams also cooperatively partners with residential, commercial and land brokers to auction properties throughout the United States and abroad.

About Auction Network

www.AuctionNetwork.com is a subsidiary of Williams, Williams & McKissick, LLC, whose holdings include Williams & Williams. Auction Network is a 24-hour global broad-band television network that lets bidders participate from anywhere in the world, on any device during live and online auctions.