theCompass mobile application is a winery, brewery, and distillery locator for North America.

In the 1880s, Serb and Italian families migrated to the North Fork of the Gunnison River in western Colorado to work in the coalmines. They brought many traditions of their homeland, of planting fruit trees and grapevines and making wine for family and friends. Some traditions are too good end! Our Cabernet Sauvignon is traditionally crafted from grapes grown high in the Colorado Rockies. It is unfined and unfiltered, fermented in open vats,and barrel-aged in French oak, making a big, full-flavored wine.

More than 100 years ago on the Schaack family's land, sagebrush was cleared and Bing Cherries grafted onto bitter almond rootstock were planted. The exceptionally productive trees became known as “family trees” because it took a family all day to harvest one tree. On this same block, years later, our Pinot Noir vines now flourish. Like those cherries, our sustainably grown grapevines thrive in the mineral-rich soil of western Colorado's North Fork Valley. The deep well-drained site is formed in cobble and stone outwash alluvium soil derived from basalt found on old terraces, mesas, and fans.