Horse & Plow North Coast Draft Horse Red 2023 campaign-feature and gravel dust

and gravel dust

and Montille's bottling shows it: chiseled

not winemaking flourish

two years in large oak

Four generations later this remains their calling card

Horse & Plow North Coast Draft Horse Red 2023 campaign-feature and gravel dustThe backbone here is Carignane from hundred year old vines in the hills west of Ukiah, the kind of gnarled old planting that usually gets pulled out for something more fashionable. Horse & Plow bought the fruit instead, blended it with Grenache from the historic Block House Vineyard in Yountville, roughly 60 40 in 2023, and made the house red they actually drink. The old Carignane brings structure, spice and savory depth; the Grenache brings the