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Three friends, a passion for wine and a love of working and creating together fueled the ultimate development and launch of KaDieM Cellars now renamed to Hunt McKay. As with most passionate and creative endeavors, Hunt McKay has been a project requiring ultimate patience, perseverance, dedicated commitment, continual learning and overwhelmingly satisfying results.

It takes almost four years to develop a Napa Valley Cabernet from grapes in the vineyard to wine ready to sell. After finding the right vineyard for the grapes, in addition to numerous lunches, dinners and cups of coffee, they worked together on both the actual making of the wine and the operational fundamentals that go into running a business: Of primary importance is managing the growing customer list. They spend hours designing, choosing and ordering all the packaging elements for each vintage. They walk the vineyards, harvest the grapes, purchase and check all the barrels. In the background they update and renew all the required permits and licenses, maintain the website and pack and ship orders. The milestones of accomplishment and progress are compelling. Hunt McKay continues to be a labor of passion fueled by friendship, lots of hard work and ultimately a product that they are all so proud to be able to share with you.

They launched the brand as KaDieM, the phonetic spelling of their initials pronounced KDM. The logo, three wine glasses entwined, is a symbol of their friendship, the celebration of their families and a toast to their passionate endeavor to create remarkable wines from the Napa Valley.

After two highly rated and sold out vintages, they gained some unwanted attention from a very large, low end wine producer on the East Coast threatened by their success. With the foundation of their partnership focused on friendship, family and brilliant winemaking, the choice to change our brand KaDieM or face years fighting of litigation and expense was an easy one for us to make.

With the 2011 vintage, they are so excited to launch Hunt McKay, the combination of Karen and Danna's last names, Hunt McKay is the same great wine, made by their partner and winemaker Michael Trujillo from the same Morisoli Vineyard Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon grapes under the exact standards upon which KaDieM Cellars was founded. You'll find the label, 3 entwined wine glasses and of course the wine to be exactly what you experienced under the 2009 and 2010 KaDieM label.