Name/Title
Rosenblum bottle with Bank of Alameda label, 1996Entry/Object ID
2025.105.1Description
Acc. No. 25.105.1
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda
Date or Period: 1996
Object: bottle, wine
Description: a wine bottle, filled, with red wine, with metallic bordeaux-red metal foil capsule, repeating 'Rosenblum' at the bottom in tan italics, and a label stating 'Bank of Alameda / Original Shareholder / March 1998 / Rosenblum Cellars 1996 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel'.
Size: H: 12 inches; diameter bottom: 2 3/4 inches.
History of Object: bottle of 1996 Rosenblum Cellars Zinfandel, honoring the founding Board of Directors of the Bank of Alameda in 1998. The Bank of Alameda was founded by James Davis, Chairman, Michael Gorman, Vice Chairman, Stephen Andrews, President & CEO, and board of Directors members Eric Cross, Robert Dahl, James McKenna, David Oliver, Joel Vuylsteke. The Bank of Alameda merged with the Bank of Marin in 2013. Rosenblum Cellars was founded by Alameda resident Kent Rosenblum (1944-2018). 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.
Acquired from: Jean Stewart
Donation Date: 3/29/2025
Catalog Date: 10/31/2025
