Old Vine Grenache is made from a single vineyard planted in 1935 as bush vines on the Kalleske farm. The vineyard soil is shallow sand with light clay subsoil and the grapes are entirely dry-grown ensuring intensely flavored fruit.

Following hand picking, grapes are de-stemmed into open-top fermenters. This old vine vineyard provides excellent natural acidity, with acid additions not required. The must is warmly fermented using native yeast and ferment temperatures reach up to 32 degrees Celsius. Gentle hand pumpovers are carried out twice a day for flavor and color extraction.

After fermentation on skins for about ten days the must is basket pressed at one to one and a half baume with fermentation being completed in barrels. The wine is matured in old American oak hogsheads for twenty-two months prior to bottling.

The 2003 growing season began with a cool and relatively windy start. Summer was hot and generally dry. There was rain in late February, which caused no serious problems but rather helped to freshen the vines and provide moisture to finish ripening. March was cool to mild and April was generally mild to warm with classic autumn weather providing ideal ripening conditions.