Grace Family Blank Cabernet Napa

”You might think a former stockbroker-they are the highest stakes gamblers after all-would always be looking for low risk high return investments. But all you need to know about the projects Dick Grace has undertaken since arriving in Napa is that he’s never had a formal contract for any of them. The first informal partnership was with Caymus which made the Grace Family Vineyards’ wine from 1978 to 1986. In the late ’80s Grace provided Cabernet Sauvignon budwood to Hartwell Estate Vineyards for its first acre of grapes. Hartwell’s wines were made at Grace until 1999. Likewise Vineyard 29 planted its first three acres using Grace Family Vineyards Bosche clone Cab in 1989 and the wines were vinified at Grace’s winery until 1998. Jim Barbour who planted the original one-acre of vines at Grace Family Vineyard in 1976 established his own vineyard in 1992 using cuttings from Grace and his first few vintages were also made there. The most recent such arrangement is with Blank V