Cycles Gladiator Winery
3750 E. Woodbridge Rd
Acampo, California 95220
209-263-3131
Tasting Hours: Open Daily from 10am – 5pm
Tasting Fee: $5.00 Refunded with Purchase
Cycles Gladiator symbolizes a celebration of the freedom and happiness that pervadedEuropein the late 19th century—an era known as the Belle Époque. This era marked many notable inventions and improvements to daily life, not the least of which was the modern bicycle or Le Bicycle Velocipede.
Started inParisin 1891 by Alexandre Darracq (an eccentric, who would later become famous for manufacturing automobiles), Gladiator was one of the dozens of bicycle companies that saturated the market when the cycling craze boomed. The Golden Age of cycling reached its pinnacle in 1895—and that same year printer G. Massias unveiled one of the great Parisian advertising posters. Only four of these original posters exist today.
The famed artwork that once showcased the stylish Cycles Gladiator now graces the bottles of our classic wines fromCalifornia’sCentralCoast. The mythological image of the nymph riding her winged bicycle captures the grace and uninhibited beauty of our hillside vineyards.
