Name/Title
Rosenblum Cellars Cork, c. 2005Entry/Object ID
2024.87.1Description
Acc. No. 24.87.1
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda, Citizens of Alameda.
Date or Period: c. 2005
Object: Cork
Description: a tapered tubular piece of cork with imprinted: Rosenblum Cellars, and a symbol that appears to be a hand-driven plough.
Size: diameter: 3/4 inch; L: 1 1/2 inch
History of Object: a cork from a bottle of Rosenblum Cellars wine. Rosenblum Cellars was founded by Alameda resident Kent Rosenblum (1944-2018) who was a veterinarian with a wine-making hobby that got out of hand. In 1978 the Cellars went commercial, establishing the winery in an old warehouse of a shipyard on the estuary near former Naval Air Station, with the grapes coming from elsewhere. In 2008 Rosenblum and his wife Kathy sold Rosenblum winery, and he founded Rock Wall Winery with his daughter Shauna. Rock Wall winery closed during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 after 14 years at an iconic location on the base looking out to San Francisco, with food served by Encinal Market's Scolari's. Kent Rosenblum died in 2018 from complications from a surgery.
Cork was used as stopper for icepicks by curator George Gunn, but is now cataloged in its own right to document the start of Alameda's ‘spirit alley’ on Alaneda Point, the former Naval Air Station.
Acquired from: George Gunn
Donation Date: unknown
