Baker & Hamilton is known as after the {hardware} and agricultural implements firm co-founded by third-generation grape grower Bruce Phillips’ nice, nice grandfather R.M. Hamilton, who emigrated from Scotland to California in 1849 hoping to make his fortune in gold. After hanging out within the gold fields, Hamilton and L.L. Baker began promoting provides to miners out of a canvas tent. The enterprise grew and Baker & Hamilton went on to change into certainly one of California’s largest mercantile companies all through California and past.
Over 170 years after Baker & Hamilton’s formation, the Phillips household selected to introduce a devoted Cabernet Sauvignon bottling that celebrates their household legacy in retail and agriculture. Persevering with to farm Cabernet Sauvignon on the household’s Oakville property utilizing implements from designs manufactured below the Baker & Hamilton model, the wine is an homage to the household’s early years. To showcase this, the wine’s label comes adorned with photos of those farming instruments, extracted instantly out of Baker & Hamilton’s legendary catalogs.
“Baker & Hamilton is my household’s means of continuous our unwavering dedication to the very best high quality, by the sum whole of what we develop and make,” says Bruce Phillips. “The wine was created to rejoice the retail and restaurant expertise, and the individuals who make these particular locations occur.”
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