(Wines&Vines) - Follows other significant donation to fund fellowship to maintain and curate collection

Davis, Calif.—Warren Winiarski, the founder of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, committed $3.3 million to build what’s being touted as the world’s most comprehensive collection of wine writing at the Univeristy of California, Davis. 

According to a news release by UC Davis, the gift by the Winiarski Family Foundation will preserve and increase access to the works of Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson and other celebrated wine writers including book authors, editors, wine journalists, critics, columnists, bloggers and the creators of other editorial content. 

"My hope for this gift is that it will create a powerful resource for people who want to see how writers helped develop the wine industry itself and how they influenced the aesthetics of wine,” Winiarski said in the UC Davis statement. “Wine writers didn’t write just about the regions or types of wine. They gave winemakers the tools they needed to make wines better." 

British wine writer Hugh Johnson has described the UC Davis’ current collection as “the greatest wine library in the world."