With annual sales of $3.5 billion about 70 million cases of wine Gallo is the nations largest winemaker. The Modesto company owns 60 wine labels. (Dave Getzschman / For The Times)
Gallo employee Omar Ruiz displays a freshly formed bottle at the company’s glass plant, the largest glass factory in the western U.S. The vintner plans an expansion that will boost the plant’s capacity to 1 billion bottles a year. (Dave Getzschman / For The Times)
Bottles move along a belt at the Gallo glass plant in Modesto. The company controls virtually the entire process of creating a bottle of wine, from the fermenting of the grape juice to the making of the cork that closes the bottle. (Dave Getzschman / For The Times)
