Not only does our vineyard have the rare combination of soil and weather to produce world-class wines, but it is also rare for the intentional choices of the clones of grape we grow here — heritage clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, the only vines deserving of a mountain estate that dates to 1878.

We are the stewards of one of Napa Valley's last remaining blocks of the historic Clone 8 Cabernet Sauvignon — planted in 1985, old-school spacing, low yields, the kind of fruit that takes a long time to ripen and gives everything back when it does. On the same hillside, we tell the story of Clone 30, a heritage clone of Cabernet Sauvignon whose lineage can be traced to Harry See, a pioneer of Stags Leap, whose original Cabernet Sauvignon cuttings were preserved by the Disney family, with the help of UC-Davis. Planted on Diamond Mountain in 2019, Clone 30 found its companions on the hillside

On the east-facing slope, where the morning light breaks over the pine forest and red-tailed hawks ride the thermals above, there are just over two acres of something exceedingly rare: the Jenkins clone of Cabernet Sauvignon. Not a commercial clone. Not something you'll find at a nursery. A heritage cutting descended from Château Lafite Rothschild — brought quietly into California decades before the modern wine industry took shape, passed hand to hand by those who understood what it could become in the right soil. Consulting winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown understood. He chose the Jenkins for this block because of what mountain-grown vines do when they struggle — when volcanic rock forces roots deep, when cool mornings and warm afternoons concentrate everything the vine has into small, thick-skinned berries. The Jenkins doesn't just survive that environment. It reveals itself in it. The wine it gives us is called Hawk's Prey — a pure single-vineyard, single-clone Cabernet.