A few shots tracing the history of Bin 504. Our grapes came from Paso Robles, CA, from Frances James vineyard. We met Marlowe and Corine, the owners, on a trip to Paso in 2005. We fell in love with them, their inn and their grapes. After spending much time in Marlowe's wine cave, sampling his wine, we asked if he would sell us grapes and walk us through the process.
Much to our surprise, he said "yes" and we were off and running.
In October 2005, Kevin and I picked 1/2 ton of cabernet grapes and worked with Marlow to de-stem them, crush them add yeast and barreled them, adding a wee bit of Malbec primarily for the color -- we love that almost jet black addition to the wine.
Two years later, this past October, we sampled bin 504 for the first time, did a bit of blending -- we eventually settled on half of the bottles with the original 95% cab, 5% malbec blend, and half with 90% cab, 5% malbec and 5% f*kin' merlot -- and then bottled it up.
