Art of the Vineyard

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OUR STORY

More than forty years ago, my wife Marian and I purchased a 19th Century homesteaded ranch west of Paso Robles and six miles from the seacoast art colony of Cambria, within the headlands of stunning Big Sur country.

I first beheld the idyllic beauty of this mountain valley aboard a helicopter moments before it plummeted to the earth. Emerging from the wreckage, I dusted myself off and promptly announced to the still stunned real estate broker, “I’m going to buy this place!” Remarkably this life or death crash occurred a short time before I was cast in the epoch TV series, Land of the Giants, which began with a smash landing into another planet.

Indeed, in the ensuing years… this pristine land, now known to lie prominently in the Premium Wine Growing Area of the United States if not the world, has evolved into a legendary vineyard.  Legendary is an understatement as the land was tectonically formed 26-million years ago by three volcanoes emerging in lava fire from out of an inland sea.

From this ultimate power international scientists have discovered super soils and wonder soils found nowhere else. The volcano trio, amazingly, exists within the property lines, and the natural grapes grow in the richest earth and nurture in environmental perfection.  Shades of Shangri-La

OUR HISTORY

Helicopter Crash

1968

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Gary Conway Crash Lands Helicopter
Land of the Giants Launched

1968

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Vineyards Planted

1985

63 acres of Chardonnay and Bordeaux Varietals

Planted Tuscan Olive Orchard

1986

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First Vintage

1989

Bottled first Bordeax Blend

Our First Customers

1996

People flocking for this great wine.

Vineyard Soil Research

1995

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International Soil Studies Carmody McKnight Estate
planted first wineyard

1996

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Big Sur Utopia