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Napa Valley

 The site  Ranch history  Our Purpose  Winemaker  Winemaking approach  Specific winemaking

practices

 Wine character  Our Vineyards  The Brothers Vineyard  The Lost Orchard  Los Ricos Vineyard  The Lower Vineyard  The Blending Blocks  Our Current Wines  Points of

Differentiation

 East side of Silverado

Trail between Rutherford and St. Helena

 600’ to 850 feet

elevation

 Neighbors: Hall,

Sloan, Heitz

 Between Rutherford,

• St. Helena, Howell

Mountain, Pritchard Hill appellations

 Homesteaded in 1878 by Levi Philander Davis  60 acres planted by 1880  Early reputation built on Zinfandel  Snowden family arrives in 1955  First Cabernet planted 1962  Brothers Vineyard replant 1982 – grapes sold

to Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars

 1993 forward – sales to Silver Oak, Caymus,

Ramey – but also commence production of Snowden

To produce wines from our property which deliver to the glass: Our unique site The distinctive varieties we grow The character of each vintage

 Diana Snowden

Seysses

 Viticulture and enology

graduate UC Davis

 Worked at Robert

Mondavi Winery, Mumm Napa Valley, the Araujo Estate, Ramey

 Fleur de Boüard,

Domaine Leflaive

 Today: enologist at

Domaine Dujac and Triennes

 Deliver terroir to the tongue  By farming healthy vineyards  And utilizing non-invasive winemaking

practices driven by the vineyard rather than by back-engineering from a pre-defined end product

 We do not add yeast, sugar, acid, or digestive

enzymes

 We ferment dry  We do not add sugar back into our wines  We do not extend macerations after

fermentation

 We do not sterile filter, reverse osmose, cook

• r centrifuge

 We balance new and used French oak

The Brothers Vineyard

• - Historically the best terroir
• n the property
• - 800 to 850 feet elevation
• - 10.3 acres
• - Volcanic rhyolite soils
• - Replanted 1962, 1982, 2011
• - 4’ by 5’ spacing
• - Cabernet Sauvignon

clones 337, 169, and 191

• - 420 A rootstock
• - Farmed without the use of

Roundup or other pesticides

• - Wines from new replant

drove decision to move from “Reserve” to vineyard designation

The Lost Orchard

• - Named for a long-

abandoned fruit orchard

• - Our eastern-most block
• - Drops off to Lake

Hennessy and Pritchard Hill to the east

• - 4.5 acres
• - 800’ to 840’ elevation
• - Volcanic rhyolite soils
• - One acre of Sauvignon

Blanc planted 2009

• - 3.5 acres of Cabernet

Sauvignon planted 1997

• - The coolest growing site
• n the property
• - Used to compete to be part
• f the Reserve blend
• - Today a part of the Ranch

blend

Los Ricos Vineyard

• - One acre block
• - A prune orchard when the

Snowdens arrived

• - Unique eastern facing
• - Volcanic rhyolite soils
• - Planted to Cabernet

Sauvignon in 1997

• - Was frequently a

component in our Reserve Blend

• - Now an ultra small

quantity vineyard designated Cabernet Sauvignon

The Lower Vineyard

• - 1.5 acre block
• - Approximately 300 yards

east of St. Helena sub- appellation

• - Planted to Petit Sirah when

the Snowdens arrived

• - Volcanic rhyolite soils
• - Planted to Cabernet

Sauvignon in 1997

• - Used to compete to be in
• ur Reserve Blend
• - Today a part of the Ranch

Cabernet

The Blending Blocks

• - Located at the “top of the

property” adjacent to the Brothers Vineyard

• - A prune orchard when the

Snowdens arrived

• - Planted 1994
• - One acre Petit Verdot
• - Two acres Merlot
• - One acre Cabernet Franc
• - 0.3 acre Malbec
• - Volcanic rhyolite soils
• - Originally only used as

blending components

• - Today frequently bottled in

smaller quantities as stand- alone varietals

 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon

“Brothers Vineyard”

 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon

“The Ranch”

 2014 Petite Verdot “Levi

Philander Davis Vineyard

 2013 Cabernet Franc

“Melchior Kemper Vineyard”

 2015 Sauvignon Blanc

“Sunninghill”

 2015 Malbec Rosé “Ward

Eisan Vineyard”

 The Snowdens have been stewards of our site

for sixty-two years – 2017 is our 63rd harvest and 25th crush

 We do not backwards engineer our wines – our

loyalty is to our site

 We understand – and welcome – the

challenges of making natural, terroir-expressive wines

 We are moving steadily from sustainable

toward organic farming practices