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Birthplace of Fetzer’s Mendocino County wine empire makes way for cannabis economy

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on May 29, 2017 at 2:32 pm

Michael Steinmetz said he wants his San Francisco-based company Flow Kana to become “the Whole Foods of cannabis.”

REDWOOD VALLEY — Dust covers the redwood bar inside the abandoned Big Dog Saloon on an 80-acre ranch north of Ukiah where a famous Mendocino County wine family long ago launched an empire.

Built in a meadow near Seward Creek with the help of friends trading sweat equity for food and wine, the Fetzer family’s saloon was once the stage for epic tastings and freewheeling parties as Mendocino County built its fledgling wine industry.

That was nearly four decades ago, when deputy sheriffs in Chevy Impalas and Crown Vics raced down dirt roads past the rush of the grape harvest, plumes of dust marking their routes into the rugged hills. They’d return hauling illegal marijuana plants confiscated from remote back-to-the-land homesteads.

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