This is probably the very first winery we ever went to together about four years ago. It had been a couple of years since we had been back so we dropped in to see what was happening. The building and grounds are still as beautiful as ever, surrounded by rolling hills of … [Read more...]
Firestone- Want Some Tires With That Wine?
Okay so they don’t serve tires in the tasting room but you’ve heard the name Firestone right? Tires? Beer? Wine? Politics? Or maybe from TV’s The Bachelor? They have a rich and diverse family history that you're welcome to Google if you’re interested in learning more. There … [Read more...]
Making Wine at Wild Horse
We were lucky enough to go behind the scenes with winemaker/ co winemaker Clay Brock. It’s always amazing to see all the stuff that goes in to creating that lovely, delicious bottle that we get to sip on. From the time the grapes roll in to the winery on big trucks, there … [Read more...]
Estancia's Director of Vineyard Management – Interview
Jason Melvin is the Director of Vineyard Management for Estancia Vineyards and Estates. Don't underestimate Jason's duties; Estancia produces over 850,000 cases a year, so this is no small task! Jason has been in the industry for a while, in fact, he's been with Estancia for 11 … [Read more...]
Estancia Estates (Part 3) Endless Tanks of Pinot Noir
As we learned about how Estancia's Pinot Noir is made from Winemaker, Scott Kelley, he took us up on the catwalks between the open top fermentation tanks to see the punch down process. Some of the Pinot Noir tanks are punched down, and some are pumped over. The point of both … [Read more...]
Dark Star Cellars – All Kinds of Good Wine
Just off 46 West on Anderson Road sits Dark Star Cellars. They've been making wine in the Paso Robles area for a long time, well since 1994 that is. They produce about 4,000 cases a year of "stellar reds", or dark stars. This is a family run joint, with Norm Benson at the … [Read more...]
Throwback Thursday – Cass Winery
Cass is one of those wineries in the Paso Robles area that has a cult following. Not cult in a bad way...just meaning that they have a strong army of loyal aficionados that come from near and far just for their wines! We've witnessed the adoration for the Rhone styled-wines … [Read more...]
CRAVE – Need We Say More?
CRAVE is an event put on by the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance with the sole goal of getting the "Millenials" more into wine. They gathered over 40 wineries, 20 restaurants, a cool band, a radio station, and a bunch of "young" wine drinkers and put it all together in a hall … [Read more...]
Estancia Estates (Part 2) Processing the Grapes!
While on our Central Coast Wine Tour, we spent some quality time at Estancia Estates and Winery in Soledad, CA. Winemaker, Scott Kelley introduced us to many of their winemaking processes and since we were there during harvest, we got to see a lot of the action! Estancia is a … [Read more...]
Wild Horse Vineyard – Feeding Floyd the Llama
Wild Horse Winery is located in the famous Templeton Gap area in the Paso Robles AVA. The winery was founded in 1981 and has developed a reputation for producing fine wines from many varietals over the years. Today, they produce 200,000 cases of wine that are distributed all … [Read more...]
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