Margaret Munn and George W. Hendry purchased the HENDRY RANCH in 1939. Just 5 years later, George died suddenly from a heart attack and for the next 30 years, Margaret single-handedly maintained and managed the ranch (overseeing the farming of grapes, prune-plums, walnuts and cattle) and raised their 2 sons George O. and Andrew. In 1973-75, with the Napa wine industry changing, George O. built a reservoir and replanted most of the ranch to vineyard. 2 decades later he began to make wine; his first vintage was 1992. Over the years he sold smaller and smaller quantities and crushed more for his own wines. Today the Ranch covers 203 acres in the foothills of the Mayacamas mountains. The family bases their choices on a desire to continue farming their land ethically and sustainably, as they have done since 1939.