Delicato Vineyards is helping turn 2012 into a very good year for Spreckels Park.

The Manteca-based winery with markets around the globe has leased a 533,000-square-foot warehouse in Spreckels Park located between Ford Motor Company’s Small Parts Distribution Center and Millard Refrigeration Services.

Delicato will use the space formerly leased by ADPS Packaging and Terrill Transportation. The trucking firm has relocated to facilities along Moffat Boulevard in Spreckels Park.

The Spreckels Park site will allow Delicato to consolidate its entire cased goods inventory plus have room for growth. Delicato has warehouse space at their winery at French Camp Road and Highway 99 as well as additional leased space in Lathrop.

“The new Wine Distribution Center will be used to store all DFV (Delicate Family Vineyards) cased goods products from all of our bottling facilities,” noted corporate spokesman John Yarborough in a press release. “This new center is centrally located and ideal for our current and future shipping and receiving volumes. Both our warehouse and customer service teams will reside at this facility.”

Delicato announcement on Friday is in addition to other good news for Spreckels Park. Ford Motor Co. has reportedly renewed its 10-year lease that was set to expire. It has been extended for five years. The company could also be hiring temporary help this summer for the small parts distribution center.

Delicato was founded by Sicilian immigrant Gaspare Indelicato who planted the first vines in 1924.  The first vintage was in 1935 and generated 3,500 barrels. That initial vineyard - which still produces -planted the seed for one of California’s largest vineyard empires.

It now includes the fabled San Bernabe Vineyards. It encompasses 11,000 acres that stretch for nine miles in Monterey. It is the world’s most diverse and largest single-owned vineyard.

There are 110 distinct vineyard blocks farmed individually featuring 20 different grape varietals that flourish in a series of micro climates that start with near sea-level, often fog-enshrouded vineyards and work their way up hills to elevations gaining just under 2,000 feet.

Among the Monterey vineyards comes Pinot Noir, Riesling and Chardonnay.

The other major family vineyard is Clay Station Vineyards, some 1,250 acres on the valley’s edge and in the Sierra foothills east of Lodi. The rich, red clay with stone “cobbles” is considered ideal for drainage critical to sweetening the fruit. There are six varietals in the classic Mediterranean climate featuring sunny dry summers and cooling nighttime breezes from the Delta.

From the Lodi region comes Zinfandel, Cabernet, and Chardonnay.

DFV Wines also focuses on securing Napa’s varietals as well as accessing grapes from their  “ultra-premium regions” - Russian River Valley and Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County.

The Indelicatos refer  to the Monterey-Napa Valley/Sonoma-Lodi combination as “the golden triangle.”

The Manteca winery established in 1935 has a crushing capacity of 140,000 tons, storage capacity of 42 million gallons, and a warehouse capacity for 600,000 cases. The winery bottles 3 million cases annually.

Some 230 of DFV Wines’ 350 year-round employees work in Manteca. They also have another 350 seasonal employees.

The Delicato Monterey Winery was established in 1988 and has a crushing capacity of 30,000 tons. The warehouse capacity is 11,000 barrels while the barrel room capacity is 1.5 million gallons.

DFW Wines has one of the top “winery to winery” services in the United States. They serve the top 30 largest premium wine companies. Their services include exclusive brand development, new product development, buyers own label custom blends, and overseas packaging services.

That portion of the business - credited with establishing Delicato Vineyards as a “winemaker’s winemaker” was the handiwork of Gaspare’s three sons - Vincent, Frank and Anthony.

The third generation - Chris, Jay, Cheryl, Frank Jr., Claude, Mike and Marie - get credit for developing the branded wine business, and establishing a global market for DFV Wines.

In 2010, DFV purchased the Black Stallion Winery in the Napa Valley.