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Last week was our official Grand Opening. I have to say that it was a great success!

On Friday evening we hosted all local hospitality folks for free wine tasting, great local cuisine and Olea Farm olive oil tasting. We featured three of our unique blends and a couple of our single varieties. Our 2006 Grenache was a highlight for sure, followed by our 2004 Syrah and 2005 Slipstone Rhone blend. As limited as our parking is everyone made it here, and home safely!

Saturday was outstanding! We had guests waiting outside our doors before we even opened. Hoy was here with his family to shake hands and talk wine. Paul even joined in on the action and gave each guest a quality experience. From 3:00pm until a little after closing we had the same delicious cuisine of paella, rosemary pork and penne pasta to pair with our wines. Everyone who came through left very pleased with at least two bottles of wine. The entire day was a huge hit!!

Sunday was another busy start with lots of people treating their fathers for the day. As expected traffic lessened toward the end of the day giving all of us a chance to recuperate from the rest of the weekend.

Overall…incredible success! Thank you all for your support!

Here we are…our first ever blog post! Our new tasting room is up and running. We’ve been working diligently to get ready for our Grand Opening and I can say that we are just about there. With any project there are always a few finishing touches that need to be complete, but we’ve got the most important ones in place: wine and glasses.

The greatest part is all of the support from you who have stopped as soon as we put that sign up at the bottom of the drive. We’ve had the chance to work out the kinks but more importantly; we got to spend some time with each of you to provide a quality educational experience.

The wines speak for themselves being hand crafted small lots from 100% estate grown fruit. They are all incredibly well balanced wines with fruit, tannin, natural acidity and well integrated French oak. Our location is unbeatable with an incredible view and picnic area.

The temperature is always enjoyable out here…at least 5-10 degrees cooler than downtown Paso Robles. We are nestled inside the Templeton gap wind tunnel which offers an incredible oceanic influence. Paso Robles has never been separated into smaller sub appellations, but residents and winemakers who know the region are aware of the distinct areas that have differences in weather and soil. The Templeton gap is known for its subtle breezes and cooler evenings (sometimes 40 degrees in contrast to daytime temperature). Because of this drastic swing in temperature our growing season in Paso is longer. More time to mature equals a balanced, ripe fruit to produce our wine with.

Thank you for all of your support and we hope to see you out here again soon!