2022 marks the inaugural vintage for our Bordeaux field blend—59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Cabernet Franc, 16% Merlot, 100% Black Sears—a tribute to the beautiful savagery of Nature and to the unlikely confluence of forces that made such a unique winegrowing site possible.    

This Barbarous blend (a first for Black Sears) is born from some of the finest and most interesting dirt in the entire region: an upper layer of volcanic, kaolinite clay soil separated from a second, deeper and more nutrient-rich layer by a visible striation of ash from a powerful volcanic event that occurred thousands of years ago.