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 Ann & Dick Grace
Grace Family Vineyards
St. Helena, CA
Dick Grace, with his wife Ann, owners of Grace Family Vineyards, started a small winery in Napa Valley as mostly a hobby, planting it with cuttings from the famous Bosché vineyard not far away. The first harvest was picked by family and friends in 1978 and taken to nearby Caymus Winery by station wagon. Charlie Wagner, the late Caymus patriarch, tasted a bunch of those first 1978 grapes and exclaimed, "You know, Dick, this is damned fine fruit!" And so one of Napa Valley's first vineyard-designated wines came to be produced. Since those early days, Grace Family Vineyards has blossomed. They still handcraft their wines, but now there is a winery, designed by friend and architect Jon Lail, next to their vineyard. Their motto, “Be Optimystic,” is imprinted on their corks and sums up the sense of harmony and optimism that is the catalyst to the Grace family’s success and happiness.
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