Each vine type performs best when it is planted in the kind of soil and climate in which it was born. The clay-rich soil of our Clay Station Vineyard is punctuated with sand and rock which provides a mix similar to the ancestral home of clone selection 181 in Bordeaux, France.
During the Prohibition Era, wine was made at home and doctors "prescribed" bourbon. These two once-forbidden favorites inspired the 1924 Bourbon Barrel-aged Cabernet Sauvignon.
The year was 1924 and it was the heart of the Prohibition Era. It was also the year our family planted and farmed vineyard in California. Story goes some of those grapes might have been used to make wine.
A Prohibition-style dark red blend that pays homage to our family's first vineyard planted in 1924 during wine's darkest hour. Double Black upholds the Gnarly Head maxim: bold and rebellious.
One of the prestigious "Dijon Clones", vine selection 667 was brought to California from Burgundy, France because this vine stock generates deep color and several layers of tannins.
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