Nestled on Pritchard Hill, you’ll find a family of folks from Tennessee who had their fill of Lynchburg Lemonade and decided to grow a more citified beverage -- wine. As luck would have it, they came upon some prime acreage in the Napa Valley with room for a decent enough vineyard, the double wide, the dogs, and a couple of spare chickens they picked up along the way. Well, that was 30 years ago. Today the double wide has been redecorated, the children have grown up and gotten involved in the business, and the chickens? Let’s just say they paired nicely with one summer’s finest turnip greens.
Our family has been farmin’ one thing or another pretty much since the beginning of time and we are happiest when we have some dirt to mess with. We have discovered that grapevines are similar to one of our favorite southern crops – kudzu, so we are quite comfortable with this new industry. We believe in keeping things as natural as can be, so you won’t find any pesticides on our vines.
We produce 10,000 cases a year, about 6,000 of those are Cabernet and the rest (4,000 cases or so, according to this new math) are Chardonnay. About half of the red grapes come right from our own little patch of land, and the others we buy from our Napa Valley neighbors. (We’ve found the people out here to be a lot more neighborly than we expected. It must have something to do with wine being available for drinkin’ even on Sunday.)
Our family has been farmin’ one thing or another pretty much since the beginning of time and we are happiest when we have some dirt to mess with. We have discovered that grapevines are similar to one of our favorite southern crops – kudzu, so we are quite comfortable with this new industry. We believe in keeping things as natural as can be, so you won’t find any pesticides on our vines.
We produce 10,000 cases a year, about 6,000 of those are Cabernet and the rest (4,000 cases or so, according to this new math) are Chardonnay. About half of the red grapes come right from our own little patch of land, and the others we buy from our Napa Valley neighbors. (We’ve found the people out here to be a lot more neighborly than we expected. It must have something to do with wine being available for drinkin’ even on Sunday.)