The Cocktail Hour: Paso Robles Vino Tasting

We've done this earlier but fourth dimension to hitting a duad of novel places.

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While California vino tasting used to hold upwards a fun, inexpensive agency to transcend to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension on vacation, wineries convey caught on too convey made this a turn a profit center. Cheap tasting is getting difficult to find. Free tasting is on the endangered listing too inwards extreme danger of going extinct.

Still, convey faith...there are to a greater extent than or less bargains to hold upwards had out at that spot yet.

A quick inquiry at the hotel's front end desk yields us virtually one-half a dozen coupons for costless vino tasting hither inwards the Paso Robles AVA.  Two are local, too we'll gustation a 3rd nether dissimilar circumstances tonight.

From our hotel inwards Atascadero, it's but a few miles due south to Santa Margarita where the Ancient Peaks Winery's tasting room anchors the block-long downtown. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 display within has samples of the reason of their growing areas to the N too a map of each type of reason too the grapes grown on it.

Our coupon gets us tastes of everything on the listing too nosotros brand upwards a mixed illustration (10% discount for non-members) of their groovy cabernet, Sauvignon blanc, too Blanco...a slightly sweeter dry out white vino made upwards of a chardonnay/moscato mix...from the friendly, helpful, too down-to-earth counter staff. They besides had a rose for this hot twenty-four lx minutes catamenia but it was average too form of paled a fleck inwards comparing alongside the other wines.

Be certain to halt at the bakery adjacent door for to a greater extent than or less sweets to teach alongside that Blanco past times the puddle later.

Next, nosotros teach to the other side of Atascadero, to Templeton, where the rolling hills are dotted alongside quarter Equus caballus ranches. Here's where we'll detect Wild Horse Winery. It's a advert we're familiar alongside equally we've had their readily available wines many times before.

It's a fleck lonely hither equally we're the alone customers. The friendly adult woman at the counter helps us out alongside our costless tasting equally I halt upwards splurging on a actually first-class chardonnay that I wasn't planning on spending that much for (but it was worth it). The other wines, such equally their pinot noir too viognier, were on sale for such depression cost that I made upwards the cost of the charonnay.

Later, at a concert inwards the common inwards downtown Paso Robles, nosotros hitting the vino bar where J. Lohr is selling bottles of their first-class vino for $20 a bottle, souvenir spectacles included.

We enjoyed the concert alongside a chilled bottle of their Riesling to complete off our vino twenty-four lx minutes catamenia inwards Paso Robles.

Cheers!

Darryl Musick
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