Briar Rose Winery
Beldon Fields, a plasterer by trade, was also a Disney Imagineer involved with work in Fantasyland and Toon Town. In the 1970s, he purchased land in Temecula and built a replica of Snow White’s cottage for his wife, Sallee Ann. The stately, intricately detailed storybook cottage is preserved now as the Briar Rose Winery. The fairy tale cottage was celebrated as the first home showcased on the Temecula Valley Women’s Club Holiday Home Tour in 1984. One of the largest and oldest olive trees in Temecula, if not in the entire State of California, was relocated from the Calloway Winery as a gift to Beldon Fields from veteran viticulturist John Moramarco. It turned out that the estate location was perfect for growing grapes and in the early 1990s, Les and Dorian Linkogle purchased it from Fields with the promise to not change the architecture of the cottages.
Temecula, Riverside County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt