Vine Hill Ranch

Grapes have been recorded at Vine Hill Ranch in Oakville since 1884, alongside orchards and other crops. Bruce Kelham bought the ranch in the late 1950s; his daughter Alex and her husband Bob Phillips moved there in 1978 to develop the vineyard. The family made its first estate Cabernet Sauvignon in 2008, with Françoise Peschon as winemaker.

Seven vineyard blocks run from gravelly Mayacamas slopes to deeper loam on the lower bench. The label records blocks, vine counts, harvest dates and yields, echoing the agricultural journals kept by earlier generations of growers.