Last updated: 1/14/2011
Murphys, California
Address
1894 Six Mile RoadMurphys, CA 95247

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Description

Tantalize your senses and explore our award-winning wines in our Tasting Room and Gourmet Delicatessen, rustic and elegant with its monumental 42-foot stone fireplace and historic oak bar. Wind your way through The Heritage Museum and Jewelry Shoppe , where fine jewelry and objects d’art are intertwined with a collection of gold rush treasures, including a rare, one of a kind, forty-four pound Crystalline Gold Leaf Specimen - the largest in the world!

Tours are offered Monday through Friday at 1:30 pm. On Saturday and Sunday tour hours are 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Tours are complimentary. Highlights of the tours include the wine production area, bottling line, wine-aging cavern, amphitheatre, gardens and Lakeside Park, as well as the Tasting Room, Culinary Exhibition Center, Alhambra Music Room and Theatre Pipe Organ, the Heritage Museum, and the Jewelry Shoppe.

The Heritage Jewelry Shoppe, located inside the Heritage Museum, offers visitors a unique opportunity to take home a piece of California’s colorful history. The Shoppe showcases exceptional treasures such as gold-in-quartz jewelry, natural gold nuggets and nugget jewelry, as well as an impressive collection of diamond, emerald, turquoise and other precious and semi-precious gem artistry. If you don’t see what you are looking for, one of our sales associates will be happy to assist you in creating the design you have in mind.

Established as a tribute to the Gold Rush, the Heritage Museum presents artifacts from 19th century gold mining and the Miwoks, early Native American inhabitants, the Miwoks. Featuring a huge wall mural photo of miners in the field, the Heritage Museum includes photos, mining maps, personal articles carried from the "Old Countries" around the world, and other artifacts. There are examples of letters written by miners to family and friends back home.

The focal point of Ironstone's Heritage Museum is the largest Crystalline Gold Leaf specimen in the world. Weighing forty-four pounds, this specimen of gold was discovered by the Sonora Mining Company on Christmas Day, in 1992, fifteen miles from its current home at Ironstone. Crystalline Gold is one of the most rare and precious natural gold formations consisting of gold that has been deposited in layers between quartz, clay, maraposite, decomposed shale and pyrite.

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