Welcome to Klein Vineyard Ranch

2019 is the 3rd harvest from the Tempranillo vines at Dale and Becky Klein's vineyard west of Henley in the Hill Country AVA. Planted in 2015, their vineyard has shallow, rocky soils over limestone slabs on the side of a small mountain making it an ideal site to restrain the natural vigor of Tempranillo. The vineyard is also blessed with constant wind, helping to reduce the disease pressure from rainy periods that can frequently occur in Central Texas, and resulting in grapes with naturally thicker skins.

2019 was a relatively cool year, starting with ample soil moisture from plentiful rain in the preceding El Niño winter. A wet spring yielded to a relatively mild early summer, with the heat finally intensifying in late July. Our crew hand harvested and sorted the grapes at night, returning them to the winery to destem at daybreak. After fermentation, the wine was aged in neutral Russian oak barrels for 8 months and lightly filtered at bottling.