lack Ankle Vineyards is the culmination of a long-time dream of founders Ed Boyce and Sarah O'Herron (that's us). For Ed, it started with a special bottle of wine one Thanksgiving: a 1979 Mouton Rothschild (incidentally, the critics consider this vintage very disappointing for Mouton!); for Sarah, it evolved as she grew up in a family in which drinking wine was part of every special occasion. After years of simply appreciating wine, we began to wonder about the differences in the wines we were drinking. The more we learned about what goes into making a bottle of wine, the more fascinating the whole process became to us. When we decided to look for an alternative to our careers in Management Consulting, our fascination with wine, winemaking and viticulture quickly led us to making this our lives' work.

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