Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
Gallo (they dropped the E&J bit in 2024) own the three largest wineries in the world. They don’t tend to invite journalists to them, but Google Earth allows us to take a tour.
They have a winery for bottling and shipping in Modesto, and wineries in Fresno and Livingston. Livingston is the largest of the three. They also own a number of other smaller wineries.
The largest tanks in these pictures have a diameter of 50 feet (15.2 m) and a height of 50 feet. Each of these can hold 2.8 million litres of wine.
In 2000, they claimed to take one-third of the total grape harvest in California (they have 90 000 acres under contract), and to make more wine than all of Australia.
As of 2011, they had eight wineries and 60 brands. Livingston crushed 450 000 tons, and Fresno 535 000 tons.
A 2001 figure cited a production level of 950 million bottles.
A 2006 estimate was that they sold 62 million cases in the USA and accounted for one-quarter of the USA table wine market. Another source cites that they have a 32.6% share of the US wine market, with 130 different brands.
In 2011, Modesto bottled and shipped 90 million gallons of wine. Livingston produced 160 million gallons and Fresno produced 110 million gallons.
They also make their own glass: Gallo Glass produces 2 million bottles a day.
