Our History

Owner Dan Capp's Family History in Napa County, CA
(To read more about Dan's pioneering family click here)

William Rose was born in 1852  in Missouri to Thomas Rose and his wife Elizabeth. William's future wife, Charlotte Scudamore was born in Ohio in 1851.  In 1856, William was brought with his sisters to Sutter, California, where he grew up.  Charlotte and William met and married in 1870 and moved to Lake County, which had been separated from Napa County in 1861. 

Robert Lee Hudson was born in St. Helena CA in 1865 and married Annie Rose, who was born in 1873 to William Rose and his wife Charlotte.  The couple was married in May 1897 in Lakeport, CA and had five children. (See related story about Rodney Hudson here)

One of those children, their third, became Dan's paternal grandmother, Frances.  She met and married a charming Italian, Giuseppe Caporicci, and had three children:  two sons and a daughter.  They purchased a farm with orchards in Gordon Valley, Napa County, in 1929 where they raised their family during the 20th century.  Joe Capp (name Americanized)  made wine in the basement of the farmhouse as his family had done in the Abruzzi region of Italy for centuries.

One of their sons, Robert Lee, was Dan's father. He was born in Oakland, CA in 1920 and died in Napa County in 2004 at home, after converting the family farm back to vineyard in the early 1970's.  It remains planted in vineyards to this day.

Read more about Dan's pioneering family in  "From Pioneer Roots to Pioneer Wine Marketer" -- click here