{ "dataset": "Cruxvine — Paso Robles AVA producer scores", "version": "1.0", "updated": "2026-08-21", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "Cruxvine, https://cruxvine.com", "methodology": "https://cruxvine.com/methodology/", "score_weights": { "q": 0.45, "c": 0.2, "e": 0.15, "v": 0.1, "t": 0.1 }, "count": 187, "producers": [ { "slug": "marchetti-braithe", "name": "Marchetti & Braithe", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.39852, "lng": -120.59705, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 96, "rank": "=1", "sub": { "q": 99, "c": 98, "e": 99, "v": 93, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 87, "vintages": { "2015": 93, "2016": 94, "2017": 99, "2018": 99, "2019": 96, "2020": 89, "2021": 99, "2022": 94, "2023": 97, "2024": 99 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1992, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1992", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The Mourvèdre the rest of Santa Margarita Ranch is quietly measuring itself against, let down only by an 81 for transparency.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/marchetti-braithe/" }, { "slug": "verrone-vista", "name": "Verrone Vista", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.56412, "lng": -120.74706, "grape": "Petit Verdot", "family": "red", "crux": 96, "rank": "=1", "sub": { "q": 100, "c": 92, "e": 100, "v": 88, "t": 90 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 106, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 93, "2017": 98, "2018": 99, "2019": 99, "2020": 92, "2021": 99, "2022": 98, "2023": 97, "2024": 97 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1973, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A hundred for the wine and a hundred for the room, across nineteen bottlings and fourteen thousand cases — scale has cost this place nothing.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/verrone-vista/" }, { "slug": "whitcomb-naveau", "name": "Whitcomb & Naveau", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.53662, "lng": -120.73376, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 96, "rank": "=1", "sub": { "q": 99, "c": 93, "e": 100, "v": 86, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 101, "vintages": { "2015": 94, "2016": 95, "2017": 98, "2018": 99, "2019": 95, "2020": 90, "2021": 98, "2022": 96, "2023": 94, "2024": 99 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 1991, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1991", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A Merlot built for its second decade in bottle, with a tasting room scoring 100 for the people who will not wait that long.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/whitcomb-naveau/" }, { "slug": "kestrel-quint", "name": "Kestrel & Quint", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.62888, "lng": -120.8453, "grape": "Petit Verdot", "family": "red", "crux": 95, "rank": "4", "sub": { "q": 98, "c": 100, "e": 94, "v": 79, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 105, "vintages": { "2015": 93, "2016": 93, "2017": 97, "2018": 99, "2019": 94, "2020": 91, "2021": 97, "2022": 94, "2023": 95, "2024": 97 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1979, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1979", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Consistency of 100 across ten vintages: eight wines, no misses, and a $105 ask that assumes you already knew.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kestrel-quint/" }, { "slug": "bald-ranch", "name": "Bald Ranch", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.49534, "lng": -120.52325, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 94, "rank": "=5", "sub": { "q": 96, "c": 98, "e": 95, "v": 84, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 90, "vintages": { "2015": 93, "2016": 95, "2017": 99, "2018": 98, "2019": 93, "2020": 88, "2021": 96, "2022": 96, "2023": 92, "2024": 96 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1983, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1983", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seven wines, four decades, and no Cabernet vintage below 88 since 2017 — the $45 fee is the only thing here that is not refunded.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bald-ranch/" }, { "slug": "highland-cellars", "name": "Highland Cellars", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.59938, "lng": -120.7529, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 94, "rank": "=5", "sub": { "q": 99, "c": 96, "e": 92, "v": 79, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 113, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 92, "2017": 97, "2018": 97, "2019": 93, "2020": 86, "2021": 97, "2022": 92, "2023": 91, "2024": 96 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1987, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-nine points on 55% estate fruit: Highland Cellars buys brilliantly and charges $113 for the result.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/highland-cellars/" }, { "slug": "kell-bench", "name": "Kell Bench", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.40606, "lng": -120.5918, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 94, "rank": "=5", "sub": { "q": 94, "c": 96, "e": 96, "v": 83, "t": 98 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 81, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 95, "2017": 98, "2018": 99, "2019": 94, "2020": 88, "2021": 99, "2022": 96, "2023": 93, "2024": 96 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1997, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1997", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes every addition, charges nothing to taste, and still scores 94 — transparency of 98 from a house with everything to protect.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kell-bench/" }, { "slug": "kiler-winery", "name": "Kiler Winery", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.55025, "lng": -120.74671, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 94, "rank": "=5", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 95, "e": 98, "v": 87, "t": 98 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 99, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 91, "2017": 96, "2018": 98, "2019": 95, "2020": 88, "2021": 99, "2022": 95, "2023": 91, "2024": 97 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1987, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Walk in, pay fifteen dollars, and drink Mourvèdre from a house that scores 98 for both its room and its candour.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kiler-winery/" }, { "slug": "alder-knoll", "name": "Alder Knoll", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.59811, "lng": -120.76963, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 93, "rank": "=9", "sub": { "q": 94, "c": 92, "e": 93, "v": 87, "t": 99 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 90, "vintages": { "2015": 89, "2016": 94, "2017": 98, "2018": 96, "2019": 96, "2020": 89, "2021": 98, "2022": 93, "2023": 93, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 2005, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2005", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Willow Creek Picpoul with a transparency score of 99, which in a white this serious is rarer than the wine.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/alder-knoll/" }, { "slug": "amsel-hollow", "name": "Amsel Hollow", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.63774, "lng": -120.82423, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 93, "rank": "=9", "sub": { "q": 94, "c": 91, "e": 93, "v": 87, "t": 100 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 86, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 91, "2017": 97, "2018": 96, "2019": 94, "2020": 85, "2021": 98, "2022": 95, "2023": 90, "2024": 94 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 1993, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1993", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The only transparency score of 100 in Paso Robles, on seventeen wines from fourteen hundred cases of Adelaida Cabernet.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/amsel-hollow/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-winery", "name": "Huer Huero Winery", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.59938, "lng": -120.74163, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 93, "rank": "=9", "sub": { "q": 98, "c": 98, "e": 85, "v": 76, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 108, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 93, "2017": 97, "2018": 99, "2019": 92, "2020": 88, "2021": 99, "2022": 92, "2023": 93, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 2015, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Picpoul Blanc at 98 for quality and 76 for value: the wine is not the problem, the $108 is.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-winery/" }, { "slug": "oyster-crossing", "name": "Oyster Crossing", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64209, "lng": -120.86119, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 93, "rank": "=9", "sub": { "q": 97, "c": 95, "e": 87, "v": 80, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 94, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 90, "2017": 94, "2018": 98, "2019": 92, "2020": 87, "2021": 98, "2022": 95, "2023": 91, "2024": 96 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 1988, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nine thousand cases and a quality score of 97: the wine has outgrown both the room and the pricing.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/oyster-crossing/" }, { "slug": "boye-yarrow", "name": "Boye & Yarrow", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.63636, "lng": -120.86882, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 91, "e": 100, "v": 80, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 102, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 93, "2017": 96, "2018": 97, "2019": 94, "2020": 84, "2021": 98, "2022": 94, "2023": 91, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1990, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A hundred-point tasting room attached to fourteen hundred cases of estate Zinfandel; the hard part is getting the bottle, not the seat.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/boye-yarrow/" }, { "slug": "braithe-trail", "name": "Braithe Trail", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.74175, "lng": -120.67208, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 95, "c": 88, "e": 81, "v": 99, "t": 98 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 40, "vintages": { "2015": 87, "2016": 91, "2017": 95, "2018": 97, "2019": 94, "2020": 88, "2021": 96, "2022": 93, "2023": 93, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1998, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1998", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-nine for value at $40 a bottle, from eight hundred cases of San Miguel Mourvèdre — the price has not caught up with the wine.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/braithe-trail/" }, { "slug": "naveau-furrow", "name": "Naveau Furrow", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.59305, "lng": -120.45121, "grape": "Viognier", "family": "white", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 92, "e": 97, "v": 89, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 76, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 92, "2017": 95, "2018": 98, "2019": 92, "2020": 88, "2021": 96, "2022": 91, "2023": 91, "2024": 95 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 2008, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2008", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Viognier from a hundred per cent estate fruit in San Juan Creek, and a 97-point room that charges $45 to prove it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/naveau-furrow/" }, { "slug": "ridgemark-nolby", "name": "Ridgemark & Nolby", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54651, "lng": -120.71899, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 95, "c": 92, "e": 86, "v": 79, "t": 98 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 102, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 92, "2017": 94, "2018": 96, "2019": 95, "2020": 84, "2021": 96, "2022": 91, "2023": 92, "2024": 96 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 2002, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines is too many; the ones that hold the 95 are the Mourvèdres, and 2024 is the vintage to buy.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ridgemark-nolby/" }, { "slug": "summit-estate", "name": "Summit Estate", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.6324, "lng": -120.85622, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 94, "c": 94, "e": 86, "v": 87, "t": 92 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 90, "vintages": { "2015": 89, "2016": 91, "2017": 93, "2018": 96, "2019": 91, "2020": 87, "2021": 96, "2022": 94, "2023": 93, "2024": 95 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1979, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Adelaida Tempranillo from 96% estate fruit, seven wines deep, priced at $90 and worth the argument.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/summit-estate/" }, { "slug": "ziegler-bend", "name": "Ziegler Bend", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.56512, "lng": -120.59952, "grape": "Chardonnay", "family": "white", "crux": 92, "rank": "=13", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 92, "e": 95, "v": 92, "t": 94 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 63, "vintages": { "2015": 91, "2016": 93, "2017": 96, "2018": 98, "2019": 91, "2020": 86, "2021": 94, "2022": 92, "2023": 92, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2011, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Vintner Hollow Group", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The rare Chardonnay that is good and cheap at once: 92 across the board, $63, and nothing in the numbers below 86.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ziegler-bend/" }, { "slug": "bellamy-vashon", "name": "Bellamy & Vashon", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.39292, "lng": -120.59705, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 93, "e": 86, "v": 100, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 62, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 88, "2017": 93, "2018": 94, "2019": 93, "2020": 83, "2021": 96, "2022": 92, "2023": 91, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1975, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A perfect value score at $62, from eight hundred cases — Bellamy & Vashon has never learned to charge what it could.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bellamy-vashon/" }, { "slug": "bramble-hill", "name": "Bramble Hill", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52276, "lng": -120.71367, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 95, "c": 95, "e": 83, "v": 88, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 85, "vintages": { "2015": 90, "2016": 92, "2017": 96, "2018": 95, "2019": 90, "2020": 84, "2021": 93, "2022": 92, "2023": 92, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 1972, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Vintner Hollow Group", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty-four years in Templeton Gap on 55% estate fruit; the Tempranillo is consistent at 95 and the room has never been the point.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bramble-hill/" }, { "slug": "calf-gate", "name": "Calf Gate", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73284, "lng": -120.68426, "grape": "Petit Verdot", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 96, "c": 89, "e": 80, "v": 100, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 89, "2016": 92, "2017": 94, "2018": 98, "2019": 91, "2020": 84, "2021": 97, "2022": 90, "2023": 90, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1989, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1989", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, all estate, all San Miguel Petit Verdot, $61, and a value score of 100 that the 80-point room does not spoil.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/calf-gate/" }, { "slug": "dunmore-springs", "name": "Dunmore Springs", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.60186, "lng": -120.5585, "grape": "Grenache Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 92, "e": 92, "v": 86, "t": 85 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 93, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 92, "2017": 92, "2018": 98, "2019": 92, "2020": 85, "2021": 93, "2022": 89, "2023": 88, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2005, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Grenache Blanc grown entirely on the estate and poured without an appointment, which is two rarities in one Geneseo afternoon.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dunmore-springs/" }, { "slug": "fairbourne-rise", "name": "Fairbourne Rise", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.39984, "lng": -120.58599, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 98, "c": 91, "e": 82, "v": 80, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 100, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 91, "2017": 95, "2018": 96, "2019": 94, "2020": 85, "2021": 97, "2022": 89, "2023": 90, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 2002, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2002", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Marsanne at 98 for quality and 82 for the room: come for the bottle, not the hour.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fairbourne-rise/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-hill", "name": "Huer Huero Hill", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.58926, "lng": -120.78265, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 95, "c": 91, "e": 92, "v": 74, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 108, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 91, "2017": 93, "2018": 94, "2019": 91, "2020": 84, "2021": 95, "2022": 93, "2023": 88, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2007, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The Tempranillo is 95-point wine; at $108 with value at 74, it is the weakest bargain in Willow Creek.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-hill/" }, { "slug": "paper-flat", "name": "Paper Flat", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52863, "lng": -120.60676, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 95, "e": 80, "v": 91, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 70, "vintages": { "2015": 87, "2016": 91, "2017": 92, "2018": 97, "2019": 91, "2020": 85, "2021": 97, "2022": 92, "2023": 91, "2024": 92 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 1981, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1981", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twelve wines from fourteen hundred cases, only 65% estate — Paper Flat is a blender, and a very good one.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/paper-flat/" }, { "slug": "prewitt-bench", "name": "Prewitt Bench", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.36366, "lng": -120.6142, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 95, "c": 87, "e": 95, "v": 79, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 88, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 91, "2017": 96, "2018": 98, "2019": 92, "2020": 84, "2021": 94, "2022": 91, "2023": 91, "2024": 92 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1994, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1994", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 95-point room pouring 95-point Merlot, on 40% estate fruit that the house does not pretend otherwise about.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/prewitt-bench/" }, { "slug": "shell-fork", "name": "Shell Fork", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.53798, "lng": -120.6496, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 91, "e": 82, "v": 99, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 52, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 91, "2017": 93, "2018": 97, "2019": 93, "2020": 83, "2021": 93, "2022": 92, "2023": 89, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 2014, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "El Pomar Mourvèdre at $52 with a value score of 99, from a house founded in 2014 that already publishes its full additions list.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/shell-fork/" }, { "slug": "wexler-crossing", "name": "Wexler Crossing", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64016, "lng": -120.85727, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 93, "e": 97, "v": 73, "t": 96 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 108, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 90, "2017": 94, "2018": 98, "2019": 94, "2020": 87, "2021": 95, "2022": 89, "2023": 91, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1995, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1995", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen wines, a 97-point room, and a value score of 73: Wexler Crossing sells the visit as much as the bottle.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/wexler-crossing/" }, { "slug": "wexler-draw", "name": "Wexler Draw", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.63383, "lng": -120.82101, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 91, "rank": "=19", "sub": { "q": 96, "c": 87, "e": 81, "v": 100, "t": 85 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 75, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 90, "2017": 95, "2018": 98, "2019": 91, "2020": 83, "2021": 93, "2022": 91, "2023": 88, "2024": 92 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1987, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate fruit, $75, and a perfect value score — the 81 for the tasting room is the price of that.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/wexler-draw/" }, { "slug": "dry-creek-gate", "name": "Dry Creek Gate", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.57314, "lng": -120.76977, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 92, "e": 84, "v": 89, "t": 78 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 65, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 88, "2017": 95, "2018": 97, "2019": 92, "2020": 83, "2021": 96, "2022": 92, "2023": 89, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1981, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases of Petite Sirah at $65 that hold 93 for quality — volume without visible compromise.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dry-creek-gate/" }, { "slug": "hemsley-ulmer", "name": "Hemsley & Ulmer", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.65474, "lng": -120.85076, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 93, "e": 91, "v": 81, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 104, "vintages": { "2015": 89, "2016": 88, "2017": 94, "2018": 97, "2019": 92, "2020": 84, "2021": 96, "2022": 89, "2023": 88, "2024": 94 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2008, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2008", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eight hundred cases, 40% estate, $104: you are paying for scarcity and for somebody else's vineyard.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hemsley-ulmer/" }, { "slug": "jarrow-ranch", "name": "Jarrow Ranch", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.65946, "lng": -120.86406, "grape": "Viognier", "family": "white", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 94, "c": 91, "e": 89, "v": 77, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 109, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 88, "2017": 93, "2018": 96, "2019": 90, "2020": 86, "2021": 94, "2022": 90, "2023": 87, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1985, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Adelaida Viognier at $109 with a value score of 77 — a serious white asking a red's price.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jarrow-ranch/" }, { "slug": "larkin-wexler", "name": "Larkin & Wexler", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.56506, "lng": -120.38111, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 92, "e": 81, "v": 91, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 60, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 88, "2017": 92, "2018": 96, "2019": 89, "2020": 83, "2021": 96, "2022": 88, "2023": 90, "2024": 93 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2004, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines, all estate, $60, and not one of the last ten vintages below 83.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/larkin-wexler/" }, { "slug": "steelhead-vineyards", "name": "Steelhead Vineyards", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.38291, "lng": -120.62281, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 93, "e": 90, "v": 76, "t": 92 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 98, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 89, "2017": 92, "2018": 93, "2019": 92, "2020": 85, "2021": 96, "2022": 89, "2023": 88, "2024": 94 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1993, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1993", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list and pours by appointment only; the Petite Sirah earns 91 and the $45 fee is not refunded.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/steelhead-vineyards/" }, { "slug": "whitcomb-vista", "name": "Whitcomb Vista", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.39973, "lng": -120.61623, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 92, "e": 87, "v": 98, "t": 75 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 41, "vintages": { "2015": 87, "2016": 89, "2017": 92, "2018": 93, "2019": 89, "2020": 84, "2021": 93, "2022": 89, "2023": 91, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2005, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2005", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A value score of 98 at $41 — and 2024 is the best vintage Whitcomb Vista has made in a decade.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/whitcomb-vista/" }, { "slug": "yost-orsini", "name": "Yost & Orsini", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.55283, "lng": -120.65548, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 90, "rank": "=30", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 92, "e": 86, "v": 87, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 89, "2017": 95, "2018": 94, "2019": 89, "2020": 83, "2021": 93, "2022": 90, "2023": 91, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 2009, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2009", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "El Pomar Merlot at $61 that walks in off the street: 90 points, full additions published, twenty dollars to sit down.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/yost-orsini/" }, { "slug": "chalk-furrow", "name": "Chalk Furrow", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.57428, "lng": -120.62524, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 89, "e": 86, "v": 88, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 89, "2017": 92, "2018": 93, "2019": 89, "2020": 83, "2021": 94, "2022": 90, "2023": 88, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 2004, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen wines, no sub-score above 91 and none below 86 — Chalk Furrow's whole argument is that it never misses.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/chalk-furrow/" }, { "slug": "cordell-fork", "name": "Cordell Fork", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.5678, "lng": -120.7276, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 82, "e": 95, "v": 91, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 62, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 90, "2017": 90, "2018": 93, "2019": 89, "2020": 82, "2021": 93, "2022": 88, "2023": 87, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2012, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2012", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 95-point room in front of Zinfandel whose vintages run from 82 to 93 — the welcome is steadier than the wine.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cordell-fork/" }, { "slug": "dellamo-hollow", "name": "Dellamo Hollow", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.6217, "lng": -120.7403, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 93, "e": 83, "v": 93, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 94, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 83, "2021": 92, "2022": 88, "2023": 87, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1996, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 93 for value on 40% estate fruit: Dellamo Hollow is buying well and passing some of it on.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dellamo-hollow/" }, { "slug": "draycott-trail", "name": "Draycott Trail", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.53766, "lng": -120.72921, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 87, "e": 88, "v": 78, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 94, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 88, "2017": 90, "2018": 95, "2019": 90, "2020": 85, "2021": 95, "2022": 89, "2023": 89, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1986, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, one of them the Merlot that earns the 93, and a $50 fee that Templeton Gap increasingly assumes you will pay.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/draycott-trail/" }, { "slug": "fenwick-cellars", "name": "Fenwick Cellars", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.63083, "lng": -120.46269, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 86, "e": 91, "v": 83, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 88, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 87, "2017": 92, "2018": 96, "2019": 91, "2020": 83, "2021": 94, "2022": 87, "2023": 86, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 2016, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Founded in 2016 and already at 89 across sixteen wines; the consistency score of 86 is what a young house looks like.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fenwick-cellars/" }, { "slug": "hemsley-trail", "name": "Hemsley Trail", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.58007, "lng": -120.74702, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 90, "e": 96, "v": 78, "t": 78 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 98, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 90, "2017": 94, "2018": 92, "2019": 90, "2020": 82, "2021": 92, "2022": 89, "2023": 87, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2014, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": true, "verdict": "Pays Cruxvine $149 a month for a claimed listing and scores 89 anyway, which is what a claimed listing is worth.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hemsley-trail/" }, { "slug": "highland-gate", "name": "Highland Gate", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.57617, "lng": -120.58566, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 87, "e": 89, "v": 99, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 28, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 90, "2017": 91, "2018": 95, "2019": 92, "2020": 83, "2021": 95, "2022": 91, "2023": 86, "2024": 92 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 1979, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1979", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twenty-eight dollars a bottle and a value score of 99: the cheapest way to drink Geneseo Grenache seriously.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/highland-gate/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-rise", "name": "Huer Huero Rise", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.53827, "lng": -120.41877, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 84, "e": 88, "v": 86, "t": 96 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 64, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 89, "2017": 90, "2018": 94, "2019": 90, "2020": 85, "2021": 91, "2022": 90, "2023": 87, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 2004, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases from five wines, transparency at 96 — a large producer that behaves like a small one.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-rise/" }, { "slug": "limestone-winery", "name": "Limestone Winery", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64142, "lng": -120.86371, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 91, "e": 79, "v": 91, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 76, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 89, "2017": 90, "2018": 93, "2019": 90, "2020": 85, "2021": 95, "2022": 90, "2023": 86, "2024": 93 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1994, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Counoise, free to taste, no appointment, 96% estate — the most generous door in Adelaida attached to a grape nobody markets.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/limestone-winery/" }, { "slug": "mabry-vantrease", "name": "Mabry & Vantrease", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.53707, "lng": -120.40582, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 91, "e": 81, "v": 96, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 72, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 89, "2017": 92, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 82, "2021": 93, "2022": 89, "2023": 90, "2024": 93 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 2006, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A value score of 96 at $72 across eighteen wines, and 2024 is the vintage that finally beat 2016.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/mabry-vantrease/" }, { "slug": "pell-hollis", "name": "Pell & Hollis", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.76771, "lng": -120.70925, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 86, "e": 90, "v": 83, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 90, "2018": 96, "2019": 91, "2020": 83, "2021": 92, "2022": 90, "2023": 90, "2024": 89 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1985, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eight hundred cases split across eighteen wines is a lot of ambition; the Zinfandel is where it lands.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/pell-hollis/" }, { "slug": "shell-vineyards", "name": "Shell Vineyards", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.68135, "lng": -120.80498, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 91, "e": 89, "v": 78, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 104, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 94, "2018": 95, "2019": 90, "2020": 81, "2021": 91, "2022": 88, "2023": 87, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1993, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1993", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen Adelaida wines with a Roussanne at their centre, full additions published, and a value score of 78 that says so.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/shell-vineyards/" }, { "slug": "tarrant-marchetti", "name": "Tarrant & Marchetti", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52138, "lng": -120.7297, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 93, "e": 81, "v": 90, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 90, "vintages": { "2015": 88, "2016": 89, "2017": 93, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 81, "2021": 92, "2022": 90, "2023": 86, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2012, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A hundred per cent estate Cabernet at $90, and a tasting room at 81 that has not caught up with the vineyard.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/tarrant-marchetti/" }, { "slug": "york-mesa", "name": "York Mesa", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.46988, "lng": -120.55223, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 89, "rank": "=37", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 90, "e": 92, "v": 84, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 64, "vintages": { "2015": 87, "2016": 88, "2017": 92, "2018": 92, "2019": 90, "2020": 83, "2021": 92, "2022": 87, "2023": 89, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1988, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1988", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, walk-in, $45 to sit down and 79 for transparency — York Mesa would rather pour than explain.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/york-mesa/" }, { "slug": "ashby-hill", "name": "Ashby Hill", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54454, "lng": -120.71101, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 90, "e": 96, "v": 70, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 108, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 85, "2017": 91, "2018": 95, "2019": 87, "2020": 80, "2021": 94, "2022": 88, "2023": 87, "2024": 92 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2010, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 96-point room and a value score of 70: Ashby Hill charges $108 for Picpoul grown 60% somewhere else.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ashby-hill/" }, { "slug": "barn-terrace", "name": "Barn Terrace", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54045, "lng": -120.6209, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 85, "e": 89, "v": 92, "t": 94 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 42, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 88, "2017": 91, "2018": 93, "2019": 90, "2020": 80, "2021": 90, "2022": 87, "2023": 88, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 2000, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2000", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines from eight hundred estate cases at $42, additions published in full — small, cheap, and unusually frank.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/barn-terrace/" }, { "slug": "dellamo-fenwick", "name": "Dellamo & Fenwick", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.6173, "lng": -120.41663, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 83, "e": 84, "v": 90, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 87, "2017": 89, "2018": 93, "2019": 90, "2020": 84, "2021": 91, "2022": 88, "2023": 86, "2024": 88 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1979, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1979", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate, all published, named tastings only: a 1979 house that behaves like it has nothing to hide, because it does not.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dellamo-fenwick/" }, { "slug": "ellery-field", "name": "Ellery Field", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54723, "lng": -120.72165, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 89, "e": 78, "v": 85, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 80, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 87, "2017": 92, "2018": 93, "2019": 90, "2020": 84, "2021": 93, "2022": 90, "2023": 86, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 1982, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The Cabernet earns 92 and the tasting room earns 78 — buy the bottle somewhere else and drink it at home.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ellery-field/" }, { "slug": "stapleton-ridge", "name": "Stapleton Ridge", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.61593, "lng": -120.76676, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 92, "e": 79, "v": 84, "t": 92 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 85, "2017": 89, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 84, "2021": 93, "2022": 86, "2023": 89, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1989, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1989", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines is a lot of Counoise to get through in a room scoring 79; the wine itself is the reason to try.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/stapleton-ridge/" }, { "slug": "tar-estate", "name": "Tar Estate", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.76507, "lng": -120.68902, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 88, "rank": "=51", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 90, "e": 81, "v": 97, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 42, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 86, "2017": 90, "2018": 95, "2019": 87, "2020": 81, "2021": 93, "2022": 89, "2023": 89, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 1985, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nine thousand estate cases of San Miguel Grenache at $42, value at 97 — the appellation's quietest bargain at scale.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/tar-estate/" }, { "slug": "amsel-thorne", "name": "Amsel & Thorne", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.40358, "lng": -120.62869, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 93, "c": 85, "e": 78, "v": 80, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 70, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 85, "2017": 88, "2018": 90, "2019": 89, "2020": 82, "2021": 90, "2022": 89, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1979, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-three for the wine, 78 for the room: Amsel & Thorne is a bottle shop that happens to have chairs.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/amsel-thorne/" }, { "slug": "bald-row", "name": "Bald Row", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.5217, "lng": -120.644, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 83, "e": 95, "v": 85, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 70, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 91, "2018": 94, "2019": 90, "2020": 79, "2021": 91, "2022": 88, "2023": 86, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1977, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1977", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 95-point room in front of a Grenache that scores 87, from a house that has been at it since 1977.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bald-row/" }, { "slug": "boye-cellars", "name": "Boye Cellars", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.47086, "lng": -120.50554, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 82, "e": 88, "v": 83, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 84, "2017": 91, "2018": 91, "2019": 88, "2020": 79, "2021": 90, "2022": 89, "2023": 84, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 2008, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand estate cases, no appointment needed, and vintages that swing from 79 to 91 — buy by the year, not the label.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/boye-cellars/" }, { "slug": "calder-draw", "name": "Calder Draw", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.46713, "lng": -120.52906, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 88, "e": 91, "v": 88, "t": 70 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 64, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 89, "2018": 92, "2019": 86, "2020": 80, "2021": 92, "2022": 89, "2023": 86, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2007, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2007", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Declines to disclose its additions and owns no vineyard, which is 70 for transparency and an honest zero for estate fruit.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/calder-draw/" }, { "slug": "foxglen-mesa", "name": "Foxglen Mesa", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.62374, "lng": -120.79672, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 84, "e": 86, "v": 80, "t": 94 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 75, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 88, "2018": 94, "2019": 88, "2020": 79, "2021": 89, "2022": 85, "2023": 88, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 2006, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes everything it adds and grows 55% of what it presses — Foxglen Mesa is a Willow Creek négociant that tells you so.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/foxglen-mesa/" }, { "slug": "gorse-bluff", "name": "Gorse Bluff", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52142, "lng": -120.63504, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 91, "e": 77, "v": 82, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 84, "2017": 88, "2018": 93, "2019": 88, "2020": 81, "2021": 92, "2022": 87, "2023": 84, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1987, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A $50 fee, no refund, and a 77-point room attached to Counoise that scores 90; the numbers do not flatter the visit.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/gorse-bluff/" }, { "slug": "hallow-estate", "name": "Hallow Estate", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.39099, "lng": -120.57976, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 90, "e": 83, "v": 90, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 68, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 84, "2017": 88, "2018": 94, "2019": 87, "2020": 83, "2021": 89, "2022": 88, "2023": 84, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 2012, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Larkspur Wine Partners", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases founded in 2012 that already hold 90 for consistency; the Merlot is the one to order.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hallow-estate/" }, { "slug": "ivers-mesa", "name": "Ivers Mesa", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54865, "lng": -120.64225, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 87, "e": 82, "v": 84, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 86, "2017": 91, "2018": 93, "2019": 90, "2020": 81, "2021": 89, "2022": 86, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1978, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Declines to disclose additions, owns no vineyard, charges $45 that it does not refund: 79 for transparency is generous.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ivers-mesa/" }, { "slug": "jessup-ranch", "name": "Jessup Ranch", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.66095, "lng": -120.82171, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 85, "e": 91, "v": 80, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 84, "2017": 90, "2018": 94, "2019": 90, "2020": 79, "2021": 90, "2022": 87, "2023": 87, "2024": 90 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2007, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2007", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list on a hundred per cent estate fruit at $61 — the numbers here all point the same way.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jessup-ranch/" }, { "slug": "kell-wash", "name": "Kell Wash", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.55103, "lng": -120.4033, "grape": "Grenache Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 88, "e": 87, "v": 97, "t": 78 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 44, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 86, "2017": 91, "2018": 94, "2019": 86, "2020": 81, "2021": 91, "2022": 86, "2023": 87, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 1999, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1999", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Grenache Blanc at $44 with value at 97, walk-in, in a district most visitors never reach.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kell-wash/" }, { "slug": "limestone-bend", "name": "Limestone Bend", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.65765, "lng": -120.85048, "grape": "Albariño", "family": "white", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 84, "e": 87, "v": 79, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 87, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 88, "2017": 88, "2018": 92, "2019": 86, "2020": 82, "2021": 89, "2022": 88, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1996, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Albariño out of Adelaida limestone, eight hundred cases, fourteen wines — ambitious, and stretched thin because of it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/limestone-bend/" }, { "slug": "linne-field", "name": "Linne Field", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.62027, "lng": -120.79602, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 88, "e": 94, "v": 75, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 92, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 86, "2017": 89, "2018": 90, "2019": 89, "2020": 82, "2021": 89, "2022": 85, "2023": 88, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1974, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1974", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 94-point room, a $50 fee and a Tempranillo that scores 86: Linne Field sells the afternoon.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/linne-field/" }, { "slug": "merriam-whitcomb", "name": "Merriam & Whitcomb", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73873, "lng": -120.70365, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 87, "e": 85, "v": 72, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 87, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 87, "2017": 89, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 83, "2021": 92, "2022": 87, "2023": 87, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2004, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines from all-estate San Miguel fruit at $87, value at 72 — the vineyard is better than the pricing.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/merriam-whitcomb/" }, { "slug": "nolby-estate", "name": "Nolby Estate", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.5969, "lng": -120.4013, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 89, "e": 82, "v": 82, "t": 76 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 81, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 87, "2017": 88, "2018": 90, "2019": 90, "2020": 80, "2021": 93, "2022": 85, "2023": 86, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1980, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1980", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Roussanne at 92 for quality from a house that declines to say what it adds; you can taste it, you cannot check it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/nolby-estate/" }, { "slug": "orsini-oakhurst", "name": "Orsini & Oakhurst", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73609, "lng": -120.71212, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 88, "e": 84, "v": 88, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 67, "vintages": { "2015": 86, "2016": 88, "2017": 92, "2018": 91, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 90, "2022": 85, "2023": 85, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1984, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eight hundred cases, $67, appointment only — Orsini & Oakhurst is a mailing list with a tasting room attached.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/orsini-oakhurst/" }, { "slug": "rhodes-corliss", "name": "Rhodes & Corliss", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.58452, "lng": -120.77943, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 85, "e": 84, "v": 75, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 91, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 86, "2017": 92, "2018": 92, "2019": 89, "2020": 79, "2021": 91, "2022": 85, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 15, "founded": 2011, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list and pours without appointment; the Grenache is 91-point wine at a 75-point price.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rhodes-corliss/" }, { "slug": "rocky-grade", "name": "Rocky Grade", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.3663, "lng": -120.60377, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 92, "c": 88, "e": 78, "v": 85, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 72, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 84, "2017": 92, "2018": 92, "2019": 89, "2020": 81, "2021": 89, "2022": 85, "2023": 87, "2024": 91 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1980, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1980", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Six wines, eight hundred cases, free to taste, no appointment — the least friction in Santa Margarita Ranch.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rocky-grade/" }, { "slug": "stapleton-wash", "name": "Stapleton Wash", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.62088, "lng": -120.79693, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 87, "e": 88, "v": 75, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 95, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 87, "2017": 90, "2018": 94, "2019": 88, "2020": 82, "2021": 90, "2022": 89, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1994, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate Willow Creek Grenache at $95 with value at 75 — the vineyard is paying for itself and you are not.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/stapleton-wash/" }, { "slug": "vineyard-grade", "name": "Vineyard Grade", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.4828, "lng": -120.49567, "grape": "Albariño", "family": "white", "crux": 87, "rank": "=57", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 89, "e": 79, "v": 99, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 35, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 88, "2017": 92, "2018": 94, "2019": 88, "2020": 79, "2021": 92, "2022": 85, "2023": 87, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 2004, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-five dollars for Creston Albariño with a value score of 99 — the cheapest Albariño Cruxvine scores, by half.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/vineyard-grade/" }, { "slug": "bald-bend", "name": "Bald Bend", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67416, "lng": -120.52803, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 89, "e": 81, "v": 98, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 41, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 85, "2017": 91, "2018": 89, "2019": 88, "2020": 79, "2021": 92, "2022": 84, "2023": 85, "2024": 86 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1998, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Forty-one dollars, value at 98, 96% estate — Bald Bend has been underpricing Estrella Mourvèdre since 1998.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bald-bend/" }, { "slug": "boye-grove", "name": "Boye Grove", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.58624, "lng": -120.62017, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 83, "e": 91, "v": 82, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 69, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 87, "2017": 89, "2018": 90, "2019": 87, "2020": 82, "2021": 92, "2022": 85, "2023": 84, "2024": 90 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 2015, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": true, "verdict": "Pays for a claimed listing, owns no vineyard, and will not say what it adds — the 86 is the Syrah's doing, not the paperwork's.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/boye-grove/" }, { "slug": "canada-springs", "name": "Cañada Springs", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.51234, "lng": -120.51142, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 88, "e": 90, "v": 71, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 86, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 86, "2017": 89, "2018": 90, "2019": 85, "2020": 81, "2021": 91, "2022": 86, "2023": 85, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 1986, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1986", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A $45 fee and a value score of 71 on Creston Mourvèdre grown 65% on the estate; the room is better than the maths.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/canada-springs/" }, { "slug": "cold-spring-row", "name": "Cold Spring Row", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.61989, "lng": -120.45555, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 81, "e": 90, "v": 86, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 73, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 83, "2017": 87, "2018": 91, "2019": 88, "2020": 82, "2021": 92, "2022": 84, "2023": 86, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1999, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases, six wines, full additions published, walk in without an appointment — scale done plainly.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cold-spring-row/" }, { "slug": "fairbourne-bend", "name": "Fairbourne Bend", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67998, "lng": -120.85741, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 84, "e": 91, "v": 70, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 101, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 86, "2017": 88, "2018": 93, "2019": 87, "2020": 80, "2021": 92, "2022": 84, "2023": 86, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 15, "founded": 1972, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Adelaida's oldest house, founded 1972, asking $101 for Merlot that scores 89 — value at 70 says the seniority is priced in.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fairbourne-bend/" }, { "slug": "jack-hollow", "name": "Jack Hollow", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.74802, "lng": -120.68139, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 84, "e": 78, "v": 96, "t": 77 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 56, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 87, "2017": 91, "2018": 89, "2019": 86, "2020": 80, "2021": 91, "2022": 85, "2023": 85, "2024": 90 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1995, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1995", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty-six dollars, value at 96, and not one word about what goes in the tank.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jack-hollow/" }, { "slug": "kenmar-winery", "name": "Kenmar Winery", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52439, "lng": -120.61159, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 86, "e": 90, "v": 84, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 76, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 84, "2017": 89, "2018": 93, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 91, "2022": 85, "2023": 86, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2014, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2014", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases founded in 2014, 92% estate, and a Mourvèdre that has not dipped below 80 in a decade.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kenmar-winery/" }, { "slug": "kiler-draw", "name": "Kiler Draw", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.57191, "lng": -120.6629, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 90, "c": 84, "e": 80, "v": 93, "t": 73 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 85, "2016": 85, "2017": 87, "2018": 91, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 92, "2022": 88, "2023": 85, "2024": 88 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1996, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Cabernet at $54 with a value score of 93, from a house that owns no vines and does not pretend to.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kiler-draw/" }, { "slug": "ostrom-rise", "name": "Ostrom Rise", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.631, "lng": -120.43217, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 82, "e": 83, "v": 90, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 86, "2017": 90, "2018": 91, "2019": 86, "2020": 82, "2021": 92, "2022": 84, "2023": 84, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 15, "founded": 1999, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1999", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate, fifteen wines, eight hundred cases, additions published in full — San Juan Creek's most transparent small producer.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ostrom-rise/" }, { "slug": "oyster-furrow", "name": "Oyster Furrow", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.60708, "lng": -120.75808, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 80, "e": 83, "v": 92, "t": 95 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 73, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 83, "2017": 88, "2018": 92, "2019": 86, "2020": 81, "2021": 89, "2022": 84, "2023": 85, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2006, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2006", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Transparency at 95 and consistency at 80: Oyster Furrow tells you everything, including that the vintages vary.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/oyster-furrow/" }, { "slug": "salinas-rise", "name": "Salinas Rise", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64021, "lng": -120.84894, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 84, "e": 84, "v": 89, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 85, "2017": 88, "2018": 91, "2019": 85, "2020": 79, "2021": 92, "2022": 86, "2023": 83, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1974, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty-two years old, $61, $15 to taste and additions published — Salinas Rise has never made the visit expensive.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/salinas-rise/" }, { "slug": "thorne-bench", "name": "Thorne Bench", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.61961, "lng": -120.7382, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 86, "rank": "=76", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 89, "e": 87, "v": 75, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 85, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 87, "2017": 89, "2018": 89, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 90, "2022": 88, "2023": 85, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1987, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seven wines, 89 for consistency, and a Grenache priced at $85 that the 75 for value quietly disputes.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/thorne-bench/" }, { "slug": "amsel-gate", "name": "Amsel Gate", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.51123, "lng": -120.52311, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 86, "e": 77, "v": 80, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 72, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 83, "2017": 90, "2018": 88, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 90, "2022": 84, "2023": 83, "2024": 87 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1998, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1998", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Named tastings, 92% estate, and a room at 77 — Amsel Gate is better in the glass than across the counter.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/amsel-gate/" }, { "slug": "garvey-hollow", "name": "Garvey Hollow", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.59844, "lng": -120.72791, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 80, "e": 90, "v": 79, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 76, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 84, "2017": 88, "2018": 88, "2019": 85, "2020": 79, "2021": 91, "2022": 84, "2023": 86, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1987, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines and a 90-point room from a house that grows only 55% of its own fruit; the hospitality is the product.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/garvey-hollow/" }, { "slug": "hemsley-grade", "name": "Hemsley Grade", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67085, "lng": -120.81184, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 87, "e": 83, "v": 84, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 65, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 84, "2017": 90, "2018": 90, "2019": 88, "2020": 81, "2021": 88, "2022": 83, "2023": 82, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2013, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2013", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines, no vineyard, no additions list — Hemsley Grade is a brand before it is a farm.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hemsley-grade/" }, { "slug": "jarrow-grove", "name": "Jarrow Grove", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67706, "lng": -120.85489, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 77, "e": 83, "v": 91, "t": 92 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 47, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 85, "2017": 86, "2018": 90, "2019": 88, "2020": 77, "2021": 89, "2022": 86, "2023": 84, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1990, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1990", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines from eight hundred cases at $47, walk-in, full additions published; consistency at 77 is the cost of that range.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jarrow-grove/" }, { "slug": "lindqvist-merriam", "name": "Lindqvist & Merriam", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.66804, "lng": -120.83403, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 91, "c": 88, "e": 76, "v": 76, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 89, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 86, "2017": 90, "2018": 89, "2019": 88, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 87, "2023": 84, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1992, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Larkspur Wine Partners", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-one for the wine, nothing disclosed, no estate fruit and $50 to taste: Adelaida Grenache on trust alone.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/lindqvist-merriam/" }, { "slug": "mabry-knoll", "name": "Mabry Knoll", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.41024, "lng": -120.6142, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 85, "e": 80, "v": 77, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 71, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 85, "2017": 90, "2018": 88, "2019": 87, "2020": 77, "2021": 90, "2022": 86, "2023": 85, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 1975, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1975", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen Counoise-led wines from 96% estate fruit, half a century in, and a value score of 77 that reflects the ambition.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/mabry-knoll/" }, { "slug": "marchetti-knoll", "name": "Marchetti Knoll", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.77475, "lng": -120.66011, "grape": "Chardonnay", "family": "white", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 81, "e": 79, "v": 81, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 51, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 86, "2017": 87, "2018": 88, "2019": 88, "2020": 80, "2021": 88, "2022": 84, "2023": 85, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1974, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1974", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Free to taste, all estate, eighteen wines out of eight hundred cases — a 1974 house still behaving like a garage.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/marchetti-knoll/" }, { "slug": "merriam-wexler", "name": "Merriam & Wexler", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.55811, "lng": -120.64253, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 87, "e": 78, "v": 83, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 66, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 84, "2017": 90, "2018": 92, "2019": 87, "2020": 81, "2021": 90, "2022": 83, "2023": 82, "2024": 86 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 2009, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases with the additions published in full; transparency at 93 is unusual at that volume.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/merriam-wexler/" }, { "slug": "nolby-larkin", "name": "Nolby & Larkin", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.38862, "lng": -120.60482, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 84, "e": 75, "v": 90, "t": 77 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 53, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 84, "2017": 90, "2018": 91, "2019": 86, "2020": 77, "2021": 90, "2022": 87, "2023": 85, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1974, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen wines, no vineyard, no disclosure, $53 — value at 90 is doing a lot of work here.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/nolby-larkin/" }, { "slug": "oakhurst-bend", "name": "Oakhurst Bend", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67222, "lng": -120.83949, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 84, "e": 84, "v": 80, "t": 85 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 66, "vintages": { "2015": 84, "2016": 84, "2017": 87, "2018": 88, "2019": 85, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 84, "2023": 84, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 2004, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, free to taste, and a Counoise that has not moved much since 2004 — for better and for worse.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/oakhurst-bend/" }, { "slug": "rhodes-trail", "name": "Rhodes Trail", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.58393, "lng": -120.61366, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 91, "e": 78, "v": 81, "t": 73 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 82, "2017": 88, "2018": 92, "2019": 88, "2020": 77, "2021": 90, "2022": 87, "2023": 85, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 2000, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2000", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Consistency at 91 from a house that owns no fruit and lists no additions: bought well, explained badly.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rhodes-trail/" }, { "slug": "rocky-wash", "name": "Rocky Wash", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.62583, "lng": -120.43063, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 86, "e": 77, "v": 91, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 46, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 83, "2017": 86, "2018": 89, "2019": 87, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 87, "2023": 86, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2006, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2006", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Forty-six dollars, free to taste, value at 91 — Rocky Wash asks very little of you and returns more than that.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rocky-wash/" }, { "slug": "stapleton-knoll", "name": "Stapleton Knoll", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54971, "lng": -120.73796, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 85, "e": 83, "v": 82, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 53, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 86, "2017": 88, "2018": 90, "2019": 86, "2020": 77, "2021": 90, "2022": 85, "2023": 84, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 1984, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Larkspur Wine Partners", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nine thousand cases of Templeton Gap Syrah at $53 that never quite excel and never disappoint.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/stapleton-knoll/" }, { "slug": "thorne-rhodes", "name": "Thorne & Rhodes", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73586, "lng": -120.66515, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 81, "e": 90, "v": 77, "t": 87 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 87, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 82, "2017": 88, "2018": 91, "2019": 87, "2020": 77, "2021": 87, "2022": 85, "2023": 86, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2002, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2002", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 90-point room, walk-in, fifteen dollars, and a Petite Sirah at 86 — the visit outperforms the bottle.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/thorne-rhodes/" }, { "slug": "vashon-grove", "name": "Vashon Grove", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.5479, "lng": -120.35759, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 89, "c": 83, "e": 78, "v": 74, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 74, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 85, "2017": 87, "2018": 89, "2019": 88, "2020": 78, "2021": 91, "2022": 85, "2023": 86, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 1994, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1994", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Five wines from 96% estate Highlands fruit at $74, with value at 74 — priced for the district, not for the score.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/vashon-grove/" }, { "slug": "yost-halloran", "name": "Yost & Halloran", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.7131, "lng": -120.55106, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 85, "rank": "=88", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 85, "e": 87, "v": 72, "t": 91 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 82, "2017": 86, "2018": 88, "2019": 84, "2020": 79, "2021": 87, "2022": 85, "2023": 83, "2024": 89 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 2014, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2014", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The 2024 is the best wine Yost & Halloran has made, which makes the $50 fee easier to justify than it was.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/yost-halloran/" }, { "slug": "boye-bluff", "name": "Boye Bluff", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.54257, "lng": -120.39959, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 88, "c": 89, "e": 75, "v": 77, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 91, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 84, "2017": 86, "2018": 91, "2019": 86, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 84, "2023": 83, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 2008, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2008", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eight hundred cases, five wines, $91, and a room at 75 — a wine club with a tasting bar.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/boye-bluff/" }, { "slug": "chalk-gate", "name": "Chalk Gate", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73674, "lng": -120.68475, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 87, "e": 75, "v": 83, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 51, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 84, "2017": 88, "2018": 91, "2019": 85, "2020": 77, "2021": 89, "2022": 86, "2023": 82, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 15, "founded": 2000, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2000", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty dollars to taste a $51 bottle, in a room scoring 75; Chalk Gate has the ratio backwards.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/chalk-gate/" }, { "slug": "cripple-trail", "name": "Cripple Trail", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67311, "lng": -120.53713, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 85, "e": 75, "v": 83, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 79, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 85, "2017": 88, "2018": 87, "2019": 85, "2020": 78, "2021": 90, "2022": 82, "2023": 81, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1979, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four Estrella wines from 1979, priced at $79, in a room that scores 75 — the wine has aged better than the welcome.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cripple-trail/" }, { "slug": "dellamo-vista", "name": "Dellamo Vista", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.53968, "lng": -120.64029, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 86, "e": 87, "v": 83, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 63, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 81, "2017": 86, "2018": 91, "2019": 83, "2020": 77, "2021": 90, "2022": 85, "2023": 83, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1978, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1978", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, eight hundred cases, no vineyard and no additions list; the 87-point room is what you are actually buying.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dellamo-vista/" }, { "slug": "highland-grade", "name": "Highland Grade", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.62665, "lng": -120.41096, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 81, "e": 88, "v": 91, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 35, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 85, "2017": 86, "2018": 88, "2019": 86, "2020": 77, "2021": 88, "2022": 83, "2023": 84, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 15, "founded": 1995, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1995", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-five dollars, free to taste, value at 91, and 2024 ties its best vintage on record — the discovery of the lower half.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/highland-grade/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-gate", "name": "Huer Huero Gate", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.46657, "lng": -120.51653, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 86, "e": 89, "v": 76, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 73, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 85, "2017": 86, "2018": 91, "2019": 86, "2020": 79, "2021": 87, "2022": 84, "2023": 84, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 2011, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2011", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen wines out of twenty-two hundred cases is a range problem, not a quality one; the Tempranillo holds it together.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-gate/" }, { "slug": "jack-furrow", "name": "Jack Furrow", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.55811, "lng": -120.61208, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 81, "e": 89, "v": 96, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 39, "vintages": { "2015": 83, "2016": 84, "2017": 88, "2018": 91, "2019": 84, "2020": 80, "2021": 87, "2022": 85, "2023": 82, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1987, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-nine dollars, walk-in, value at 96, and nothing published about what is in it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jack-furrow/" }, { "slug": "larkin-vista", "name": "Larkin Vista", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.59547, "lng": -120.44162, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 79, "e": 86, "v": 97, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 38, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 81, "2017": 89, "2018": 90, "2019": 87, "2020": 78, "2021": 87, "2022": 85, "2023": 84, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 1973, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1973", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-eight dollars, free to taste, value at 97 — and a consistency score of 79 that says pick your vintage.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/larkin-vista/" }, { "slug": "lockwood-row", "name": "Lockwood Row", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.62902, "lng": -120.40228, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 87, "e": 81, "v": 76, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 73, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 84, "2017": 89, "2018": 88, "2019": 86, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 83, "2023": 81, "2024": 84 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1984, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Six wines from eight hundred cases, walk-in, $35 to taste: a small Roussanne house with a modest, workable idea.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/lockwood-row/" }, { "slug": "marrow-cellars", "name": "Marrow Cellars", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64126, "lng": -120.82339, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 86, "e": 89, "v": 72, "t": 84 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 81, "2017": 89, "2018": 87, "2019": 86, "2020": 80, "2021": 89, "2022": 86, "2023": 81, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1975, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1975", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty-one years old, eight hundred cases, thirteen wines and a room at 89; the Zinfandel is the least interesting thing here.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/marrow-cellars/" }, { "slug": "prewitt-halloran", "name": "Prewitt & Halloran", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73779, "lng": -120.66235, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 82, "e": 86, "v": 75, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 85, "2017": 89, "2018": 89, "2019": 87, "2020": 80, "2021": 86, "2022": 82, "2023": 83, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1986, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-six per cent estate Zinfandel across eighteen wines, and a $50 fee that value at 75 does not support.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/prewitt-halloran/" }, { "slug": "ridgemark-bend", "name": "Ridgemark Bend", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.6244, "lng": -120.45408, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 86, "e": 82, "v": 78, "t": 73 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 85, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 81, "2017": 88, "2018": 90, "2019": 87, "2020": 80, "2021": 86, "2022": 85, "2023": 82, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 2008, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2008", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Sixteen wines from eight hundred cases, nothing owned and nothing disclosed — Ridgemark Bend is assembled, not grown.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/ridgemark-bend/" }, { "slug": "steelhead-bench", "name": "Steelhead Bench", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67217, "lng": -120.83417, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 82, "e": 87, "v": 88, "t": 69 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 57, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 82, "2017": 89, "2018": 87, "2019": 86, "2020": 76, "2021": 90, "2022": 83, "2023": 84, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2010, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": true, "verdict": "A paying customer with a transparency score of 69, no estate fruit and no additions list — the score is 84 and the billing changed none of it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/steelhead-bench/" }, { "slug": "york-knoll", "name": "York Knoll", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.66937, "lng": -120.52075, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 84, "rank": "=104", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 81, "e": 91, "v": 77, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 74, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 81, "2017": 88, "2018": 88, "2019": 87, "2020": 80, "2021": 87, "2022": 82, "2023": 84, "2024": 88 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2004, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate Estrella Petite Sirah with a 91-point room, and 2024 is the best vintage York Knoll has bottled.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/york-knoll/" }, { "slug": "corliss-hill", "name": "Corliss Hill", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.51096, "lng": -120.52311, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 85, "e": 72, "v": 85, "t": 76 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 69, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 82, "2017": 88, "2018": 89, "2019": 83, "2020": 75, "2021": 89, "2022": 82, "2023": 83, "2024": 83 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1994, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases from a house that owns nothing and says nothing; the room scores 72 and the Picpoul carries it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/corliss-hill/" }, { "slug": "corliss-wash", "name": "Corliss Wash", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.5426, "lng": -120.64246, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 77, "e": 80, "v": 86, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 83, "2017": 87, "2018": 88, "2019": 84, "2020": 79, "2021": 85, "2022": 82, "2023": 82, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2011, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate El Pomar Syrah at $61 — consistency at 77 is the price of a young vineyard, not a careless one.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/corliss-wash/" }, { "slug": "cripple-cellars", "name": "Cripple Cellars", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.64269, "lng": -120.86168, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 85, "e": 91, "v": 64, "t": 68 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 104, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 81, "2017": 85, "2018": 89, "2019": 83, "2020": 75, "2021": 85, "2022": 82, "2023": 82, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2004, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A hundred and four dollars, value at 64, transparency at 68 and no estate fruit: the worst ratio in Adelaida.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cripple-cellars/" }, { "slug": "cripple-row", "name": "Cripple Row", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.56155, "lng": -120.59427, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 80, "e": 81, "v": 86, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 47, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 83, "2017": 86, "2018": 90, "2019": 85, "2020": 79, "2021": 86, "2022": 83, "2023": 84, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 1974, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1974", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines at $47 from 40% estate fruit, walk-in — Cripple Row sells breadth cheaply and makes no claim beyond that.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cripple-row/" }, { "slug": "kestrel-amsel", "name": "Kestrel & Amsel", "district": "Willow Creek District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.61945, "lng": -120.76312, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 83, "e": 88, "v": 89, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 51, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 87, "2019": 85, "2020": 79, "2021": 86, "2022": 84, "2023": 83, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 1989, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1989", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Quality of 80 and value of 89 at $51: you are buying the price, and Kestrel & Amsel is fine with that.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kestrel-amsel/" }, { "slug": "lindqvist-quint", "name": "Lindqvist & Quint", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.55526, "lng": -120.729, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 90, "e": 82, "v": 66, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 106, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 84, "2017": 84, "2018": 89, "2019": 82, "2020": 75, "2021": 86, "2022": 83, "2023": 84, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 2008, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2008", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Consistency of 90 on four wines nobody grew, at $106, with value at 66 — reliably expensive.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/lindqvist-quint/" }, { "slug": "mabry-thorne", "name": "Mabry & Thorne", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.49512, "lng": -120.50666, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 82, "e": 80, "v": 88, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 44, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 84, "2017": 85, "2018": 86, "2019": 83, "2020": 75, "2021": 87, "2022": 83, "2023": 80, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1988, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1988", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, $44, walk-in, and thirty-eight years of Creston Grenache that has never tried to be more than pleasant.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/mabry-thorne/" }, { "slug": "naveau-corliss", "name": "Naveau & Corliss", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.66485, "lng": -120.84922, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 82, "e": 79, "v": 91, "t": 74 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 55, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 84, "2017": 87, "2018": 90, "2019": 83, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 82, "2023": 82, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1996, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A $50 fee for Counoise from a house with no vineyard and no additions list; value at 91 is the only defence offered.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/naveau-corliss/" }, { "slug": "nolby-ostrom", "name": "Nolby & Ostrom", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.3757, "lng": -120.58326, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 79, "e": 90, "v": 90, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 35, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 84, "2017": 84, "2018": 88, "2019": 86, "2020": 79, "2021": 89, "2022": 85, "2023": 81, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2011, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Larkspur Wine Partners", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-five dollars, a 90-point room and nine thousand cases — Nolby & Ostrom is the volume play done charmingly.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/nolby-ostrom/" }, { "slug": "norwood-flat", "name": "Norwood Flat", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.41459, "lng": -120.61987, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 78, "e": 80, "v": 72, "t": 92 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 87, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 90, "2019": 85, "2020": 79, "2021": 86, "2022": 81, "2023": 84, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 2015, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2015", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines out of eight hundred cases at $87, with value at 72 — ambition running well ahead of the arithmetic.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/norwood-flat/" }, { "slug": "old-creek-wash", "name": "Old Creek Wash", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.4674, "lng": -120.53515, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 82, "e": 83, "v": 89, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 46, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 90, "2019": 84, "2020": 77, "2021": 86, "2022": 83, "2023": 82, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1990, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1990", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list at $46 with value at 89: quality of 80 is the honest ceiling, and nobody here pretends otherwise.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/old-creek-wash/" }, { "slug": "orrick-hollow", "name": "Orrick Hollow", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.47042, "lng": -120.55076, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 80, "e": 81, "v": 92, "t": 69 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 47, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 81, "2017": 85, "2018": 88, "2019": 83, "2020": 76, "2021": 86, "2022": 84, "2023": 80, "2024": 86 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2004, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Larkspur Wine Partners", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nine thousand cases of $47 Cabernet with value at 92 — the best cheap red in Creston, from a house that owns no vines.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/orrick-hollow/" }, { "slug": "pennock-cellars", "name": "Pennock Cellars", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.62374, "lng": -120.43294, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 81, "e": 87, "v": 79, "t": 74 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 71, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 83, "2017": 84, "2018": 90, "2019": 84, "2020": 76, "2021": 85, "2022": 84, "2023": 83, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1995, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases, seven wines, fifteen dollars, walk in — competent San Juan Creek Merlot and no story attached.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/pennock-cellars/" }, { "slug": "quarry-gate", "name": "Quarry Gate", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.75874, "lng": -120.66844, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 86, "e": 91, "v": 72, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 81, "2017": 88, "2018": 87, "2019": 86, "2020": 75, "2021": 88, "2022": 85, "2023": 81, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1999, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1999", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines from fourteen hundred cases in a 91-point room, with nothing disclosed about any of them.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/quarry-gate/" }, { "slug": "salinas-grove", "name": "Salinas Grove", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.58239, "lng": -120.42227, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 80, "e": 83, "v": 92, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 87, "2019": 86, "2020": 75, "2021": 87, "2022": 84, "2023": 81, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1977, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1977", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Forty-nine years in the Highlands, still no additions list and no estate fruit — the Syrah is better than the housekeeping.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/salinas-grove/" }, { "slug": "salinas-terrace", "name": "Salinas Terrace", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.59904, "lng": -120.44302, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 82, "c": 79, "e": 88, "v": 83, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 60, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 82, "2017": 84, "2018": 89, "2019": 83, "2020": 77, "2021": 85, "2022": 82, "2023": 83, "2024": 83 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 1985, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1985", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Named tastings, full additions published, 80% estate — Salinas Terrace's paperwork is better than its Cabernet.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/salinas-terrace/" }, { "slug": "tarrant-bellamy", "name": "Tarrant & Bellamy", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.45876, "lng": -120.50652, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 86, "e": 80, "v": 82, "t": 69 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 64, "vintages": { "2015": 82, "2016": 80, "2017": 88, "2018": 89, "2019": 85, "2020": 77, "2021": 85, "2022": 81, "2023": 83, "2024": 87 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 1989, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1989", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Sixteen wines, walk-in, $20 to taste, and a transparency score of 69 that the friendliness does not offset.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/tarrant-bellamy/" }, { "slug": "vantrease-ashby", "name": "Vantrease & Ashby", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.58035, "lng": -120.35507, "grape": "Petit Verdot", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 83, "e": 69, "v": 97, "t": 86 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 35, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 86, "2019": 86, "2020": 76, "2021": 86, "2022": 82, "2023": 81, "2024": 84 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1981, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A tasting room scoring 69 in front of $35 Petit Verdot with value at 97: buy the wine, skip the appointment.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/vantrease-ashby/" }, { "slug": "yarrow-rennick", "name": "Yarrow & Rennick", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67944, "lng": -120.51039, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 83, "rank": "=118", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 81, "e": 79, "v": 82, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 66, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 84, "2017": 84, "2018": 87, "2019": 82, "2020": 78, "2021": 88, "2022": 81, "2023": 81, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1978, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen wines from 92% estate Estrella fruit and a $50 fee that is not refunded — the wine is 86 and the welcome is 79.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/yarrow-rennick/" }, { "slug": "bellamy-winery", "name": "Bellamy Winery", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.41442, "lng": -120.59439, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 81, "e": 91, "v": 77, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 57, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 81, "2017": 83, "2018": 88, "2019": 85, "2020": 74, "2021": 87, "2022": 83, "2023": 80, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 2015, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 91-point room, four wines, nothing owned and nothing disclosed — founded in 2015 and already selling the experience.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bellamy-winery/" }, { "slug": "corliss-draw", "name": "Corliss Draw", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.72893, "lng": -120.70477, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 82, "e": 70, "v": 80, "t": 93 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 81, "2017": 85, "2018": 85, "2019": 85, "2020": 78, "2021": 86, "2022": 82, "2023": 80, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 2010, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list and scores 70 for the room; 2024 is the best Syrah Corliss Draw has made.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/corliss-draw/" }, { "slug": "mabry-mesa", "name": "Mabry Mesa", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.48896, "lng": -120.53053, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 87, "c": 83, "e": 81, "v": 68, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 95, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 80, "2017": 85, "2018": 89, "2019": 82, "2020": 75, "2021": 88, "2022": 82, "2023": 81, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 2003, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-five dollars for Creston Grenache with value at 68, no vineyard and no additions list — priced on confidence alone.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/mabry-mesa/" }, { "slug": "marchetti-fenwick", "name": "Marchetti & Fenwick", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.66558, "lng": -120.5183, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 85, "e": 74, "v": 76, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 77, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 79, "2017": 84, "2018": 85, "2019": 84, "2020": 76, "2021": 85, "2022": 84, "2023": 80, "2024": 86 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1990, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1990", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety-six per cent estate Estrella Tempranillo, and 2024 is the vintage that finally justified the $77.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/marchetti-fenwick/" }, { "slug": "naveau-estate", "name": "Naveau Estate", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.55494, "lng": -120.37971, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 86, "c": 83, "e": 76, "v": 69, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 78, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 80, "2017": 83, "2018": 89, "2019": 85, "2020": 74, "2021": 88, "2022": 82, "2023": 80, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1991, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1991", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Six wines from 96% estate Highlands fruit at $78, walk-in, with value at 69 — the vineyard deserves better pricing.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/naveau-estate/" }, { "slug": "rushmore-rise", "name": "Rushmore Rise", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.58365, "lng": -120.40519, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 85, "c": 85, "e": 75, "v": 75, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 58, "vintages": { "2015": 81, "2016": 81, "2017": 87, "2018": 89, "2019": 84, "2020": 76, "2021": 86, "2022": 81, "2023": 83, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 2005, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Sixteen wines at $58, walk-in, 80% estate: Rushmore Rise is a Highlands workhorse and does not claim otherwise.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rushmore-rise/" }, { "slug": "sable-bluff", "name": "Sable Bluff", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.41222, "lng": -120.58361, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 85, "e": 77, "v": 73, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 81, "2017": 84, "2018": 89, "2019": 84, "2020": 78, "2021": 84, "2022": 83, "2023": 83, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1980, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines out of nine thousand cases at $83, value at 73 — a broad range with a narrow reason to buy.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/sable-bluff/" }, { "slug": "thistle-fork", "name": "Thistle Fork", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.61967, "lng": -120.40263, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 83, "e": 76, "v": 77, "t": 88 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 64, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 79, "2017": 86, "2018": 86, "2019": 82, "2020": 75, "2021": 85, "2022": 82, "2023": 81, "2024": 83 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 2015, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2015", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A $50 fee from a house founded in 2015 with ten wines and 74% estate fruit; the Grenache is worth $64, the fee is not.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/thistle-fork/" }, { "slug": "varney-bend", "name": "Varney Bend", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.71612, "lng": -120.53335, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 78, "e": 85, "v": 80, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 55, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 83, "2017": 87, "2018": 85, "2019": 85, "2020": 78, "2021": 86, "2022": 81, "2023": 79, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1976, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1976", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Six wines, eight hundred cases, all estate, since 1976 — Varney Bend has never grown and does not need to.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/varney-bend/" }, { "slug": "york-flat", "name": "York Flat", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.57794, "lng": -120.60624, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 82, "rank": "=137", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 87, "e": 74, "v": 84, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 63, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 80, "2017": 85, "2018": 87, "2019": 85, "2020": 77, "2021": 87, "2022": 81, "2023": 82, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1998, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Consistency at 87 from nine thousand cases nobody here grew; York Flat is a reliable blend and an opaque one.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/york-flat/" }, { "slug": "cold-spring-grove", "name": "Cold Spring Grove", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.53322, "lng": -120.3753, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 84, "e": 74, "v": 83, "t": 69 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 48, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 78, "2017": 86, "2018": 86, "2019": 83, "2020": 74, "2021": 85, "2022": 81, "2023": 78, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1985, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1985", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A $50 fee, fourteen wines, no vineyard, no disclosure — Cold Spring Grove charges like a house with more to show.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/cold-spring-grove/" }, { "slug": "fenwick-sable", "name": "Fenwick & Sable", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.37823, "lng": -120.63065, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 84, "e": 79, "v": 75, "t": 70 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 63, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 81, "2017": 85, "2018": 88, "2019": 83, "2020": 76, "2021": 85, "2022": 79, "2023": 80, "2024": 81 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 2004, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Six wines from fourteen hundred cases, named pours, fifteen dollars — small, cheap, and entirely undocumented.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fenwick-sable/" }, { "slug": "halloran-hill", "name": "Halloran Hill", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.70991, "lng": -120.50885, "grape": "Picpoul Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 78, "e": 91, "v": 71, "t": 68 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 77, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 80, "2017": 82, "2018": 86, "2019": 80, "2020": 76, "2021": 87, "2022": 79, "2023": 78, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1974, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A 91-point room, free to taste, eighteen wines, and a transparency score of 68: the welcome is the whole offer.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/halloran-hill/" }, { "slug": "highland-furrow", "name": "Highland Furrow", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.60241, "lng": -120.55661, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 82, "e": 89, "v": 69, "t": 69 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 80, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 84, "2019": 83, "2020": 76, "2021": 85, "2022": 83, "2023": 78, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1987, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "An 89-point room in front of $83 Zinfandel with value at 69 — Highland Furrow is priced for a wine it does not make.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/highland-furrow/" }, { "slug": "hollis-hemsley", "name": "Hollis & Hemsley", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.76094, "lng": -120.66823, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 81, "e": 76, "v": 93, "t": 75 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 27, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 78, "2017": 84, "2018": 85, "2019": 80, "2020": 74, "2021": 84, "2022": 83, "2023": 80, "2024": 82 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1987, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twenty-seven dollars a bottle with value at 93: the whole case for San Miguel Marsanne, made cheaply.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hollis-hemsley/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-vineyards", "name": "Huer Huero Vineyards", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.60598, "lng": -120.42069, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 81, "e": 76, "v": 95, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 23, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 82, "2017": 83, "2018": 84, "2019": 81, "2020": 75, "2021": 84, "2022": 81, "2023": 78, "2024": 81 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 1999, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twenty-three dollars, free to taste, value at 95 — the cheapest white in the appellation, and not a compromise.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-vineyards/" }, { "slug": "jack-gate", "name": "Jack Gate", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.37828, "lng": -120.57899, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 79, "c": 80, "e": 84, "v": 84, "t": 89 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 53, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 79, "2017": 84, "2018": 86, "2019": 81, "2020": 74, "2021": 85, "2022": 83, "2023": 79, "2024": 85 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2004, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Publishes a full additions list", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Publishes its full additions list on 92% estate fruit at $53; quality of 79 is the honest number and it is printed.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jack-gate/" }, { "slug": "lindqvist-furrow", "name": "Lindqvist Furrow", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.54964, "lng": -120.66094, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 80, "e": 88, "v": 74, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 61, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 81, "2017": 84, "2018": 87, "2019": 84, "2020": 76, "2021": 84, "2022": 80, "2023": 81, "2024": 81 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 2005, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Vintner Hollow Group", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases, four wines, 92% estate, walk-in — Lindqvist Furrow does one thing at scale and does it evenly.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/lindqvist-furrow/" }, { "slug": "marchetti-furrow", "name": "Marchetti Furrow", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.46069, "lng": -120.52717, "grape": "Petit Verdot", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 80, "e": 81, "v": 91, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 43, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 82, "2017": 85, "2018": 87, "2019": 81, "2020": 73, "2021": 87, "2022": 80, "2023": 78, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1972, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1972", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen wines from eight hundred cases since 1972, at $43 with value at 91 — a half-century of doing too much, cheaply.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/marchetti-furrow/" }, { "slug": "tarrant-kell", "name": "Tarrant & Kell", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52919, "lng": -120.72746, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 84, "c": 81, "e": 82, "v": 71, "t": 78 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 83, "vintages": { "2015": 76, "2016": 79, "2017": 83, "2018": 86, "2019": 81, "2020": 76, "2021": 83, "2022": 82, "2023": 78, "2024": 81 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 1980, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "A hundred per cent estate Syrah at $83, seventeen wines deep, with value at 71 — the estate is real, the price is ambitious.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/tarrant-kell/" }, { "slug": "tarrant-knoll", "name": "Tarrant Knoll", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.49704, "lng": -120.52801, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 82, "c": 84, "e": 77, "v": 78, "t": 76 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 65, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 79, "2017": 85, "2018": 88, "2019": 82, "2020": 75, "2021": 85, "2022": 81, "2023": 82, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1978, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1978", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines from eight hundred cases, free to taste, walk in — Tarrant Knoll would rather you tried everything than bought much.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/tarrant-knoll/" }, { "slug": "weald-fork", "name": "Weald Fork", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.64293, "lng": -120.41355, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 81, "rank": "=147", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 85, "e": 75, "v": 74, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 62, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 80, "2017": 86, "2018": 86, "2019": 82, "2020": 74, "2021": 86, "2022": 80, "2023": 82, "2024": 81 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1975, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Vintner Hollow Group", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Free tasting, 92% estate, fourteen thousand cases: Weald Fork's generosity is the most consistent thing about it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/weald-fork/" }, { "slug": "calder-gate", "name": "Calder Gate", "district": "Templeton Gap District", "side": "west", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52363, "lng": -120.73663, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 78, "e": 82, "v": 76, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 71, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 80, "2017": 82, "2018": 87, "2019": 80, "2020": 73, "2021": 82, "2022": 80, "2023": 79, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1983, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eleven wines with no sub-score above 82: Calder Gate is the definition of the middle of this list.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/calder-gate/" }, { "slug": "canada-reach", "name": "Cañada Reach", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.72547, "lng": -120.67299, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 77, "e": 86, "v": 92, "t": 64 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 31, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 79, "2017": 84, "2018": 84, "2019": 80, "2020": 76, "2021": 84, "2022": 80, "2023": 79, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2003, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2003", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-one dollars with value at 92 and transparency at 64 — cheap, improving, and unwilling to say why.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/canada-reach/" }, { "slug": "dover-wash", "name": "Dover Wash", "district": "Santa Margarita Ranch", "side": "south", "town": "Santa Margarita", "lat": 35.41228, "lng": -120.63534, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 76, "e": 88, "v": 88, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 43, "vintages": { "2015": 79, "2016": 77, "2017": 82, "2018": 85, "2019": 82, "2020": 72, "2021": 82, "2022": 82, "2023": 77, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1987, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1987", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 35, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, $43, value at 88, an 88-point room and no disclosure at all — a good afternoon on trust.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/dover-wash/" }, { "slug": "hollis-bend", "name": "Hollis Bend", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.59691, "lng": -120.59574, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 78, "e": 79, "v": 78, "t": 77 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 76, "2016": 78, "2017": 82, "2018": 83, "2019": 79, "2020": 73, "2021": 83, "2022": 80, "2023": 80, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 1995, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1995", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "The 2024 is the best wine Hollis Bend has made in thirty-one years, which is worth knowing before you order the flight.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/hollis-bend/" }, { "slug": "rocky-ranch", "name": "Rocky Ranch", "district": "Paso Robles Geneseo District", "side": "central", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.60373, "lng": -120.57061, "grape": "Petite Sirah", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 78, "c": 81, "e": 77, "v": 97, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 23, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 80, "2017": 85, "2018": 87, "2019": 83, "2020": 75, "2021": 83, "2022": 78, "2023": 77, "2024": 84 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 2014, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2014", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twenty-three dollars a bottle and a $50 tasting fee: Rocky Ranch charges more to try it than to take it home.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/rocky-ranch/" }, { "slug": "summit-ridge", "name": "Summit Ridge", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.77508, "lng": -120.67271, "grape": "Grenache", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 82, "c": 80, "e": 73, "v": 86, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 37, "vintages": { "2015": 76, "2016": 77, "2017": 83, "2018": 86, "2019": 83, "2020": 73, "2021": 82, "2022": 80, "2023": 78, "2024": 81 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 2013, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-seven dollars from 88% estate fruit, nine thousand cases, founded 2013 — Summit Ridge is growing into its own vineyard.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/summit-ridge/" }, { "slug": "whitcomb-kell", "name": "Whitcomb & Kell", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.68444, "lng": -120.51368, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 82, "c": 79, "e": 76, "v": 88, "t": 68 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 38, "vintages": { "2015": 76, "2016": 77, "2017": 81, "2018": 87, "2019": 80, "2020": 74, "2021": 85, "2022": 82, "2023": 80, "2024": 80 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 8, "founded": 1997, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eight hundred cases at $38 with value at 88, a $45 unrefunded fee, and nothing published about the wine.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/whitcomb-kell/" }, { "slug": "zephyr-bench", "name": "Zephyr Bench", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.5847, "lng": -120.38678, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 80, "rank": "=159", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 80, "e": 84, "v": 71, "t": 77 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 69, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 79, "2017": 83, "2018": 85, "2019": 83, "2020": 73, "2021": 82, "2022": 78, "2023": 79, "2024": 81 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 12, "founded": 2010, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2010", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Twelve wines, named pours, 80% estate, $15 to taste — modest at every point, including the Roussanne.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/zephyr-bench/" }, { "slug": "fenwick-row", "name": "Fenwick Row", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.7004, "lng": -120.52747, "grape": "Grenache Blanc", "family": "white", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 83, "e": 79, "v": 80, "t": 64 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 44, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 77, "2017": 80, "2018": 82, "2019": 78, "2020": 73, "2021": 85, "2022": 79, "2023": 76, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 1972, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1972", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fifty-four years old, free to taste, and a transparency score of 64 — Fenwick Row's Grenache Blanc arrives with no paperwork.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fenwick-row/" }, { "slug": "huer-huero-hollow", "name": "Huer Huero Hollow", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.55851, "lng": -120.36697, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 74, "e": 78, "v": 85, "t": 75 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 38, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 80, "2017": 84, "2018": 86, "2019": 79, "2020": 71, "2021": 83, "2022": 80, "2023": 76, "2024": 81 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 2007, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2007", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 15, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-eight dollars and consistency at 74: fourteen wines that vary more than the price suggests they should.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/huer-huero-hollow/" }, { "slug": "jack-terrace", "name": "Jack Terrace", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.5964, "lng": -120.41145, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 77, "c": 80, "e": 78, "v": 85, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 51, "vintages": { "2015": 78, "2016": 76, "2017": 81, "2018": 86, "2019": 82, "2020": 71, "2021": 84, "2022": 79, "2023": 80, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1976, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nine thousand cases of $51 Zinfandel that scores 77 for quality — the value is real and so is the ceiling.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/jack-terrace/" }, { "slug": "lindqvist-crossing", "name": "Lindqvist Crossing", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.59475, "lng": -120.41551, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 82, "c": 83, "e": 66, "v": 87, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 47, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 76, "2017": 84, "2018": 82, "2019": 79, "2020": 72, "2021": 81, "2022": 80, "2023": 78, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 4, "founded": 1974, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Four wines, fourteen thousand cases, a 66-point room and a $50 fee — the fee buys you very little here.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/lindqvist-crossing/" }, { "slug": "summit-row", "name": "Summit Row", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.52082, "lng": -120.59829, "grape": "Viognier", "family": "white", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 78, "e": 79, "v": 76, "t": 74 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 67, "vintages": { "2015": 77, "2016": 80, "2017": 82, "2018": 82, "2019": 79, "2020": 74, "2021": 81, "2022": 77, "2023": 78, "2024": 82 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 14, "founded": 1981, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen wines from eight hundred cases, and no vintage above 82 across the ten on record.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/summit-row/" }, { "slug": "verrone-orsini", "name": "Verrone & Orsini", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.53668, "lng": -120.39259, "grape": "Tempranillo", "family": "red", "crux": 79, "rank": "=167", "sub": { "q": 83, "c": 77, "e": 71, "v": 76, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 80, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 78, "2017": 84, "2018": 83, "2019": 82, "2020": 75, "2021": 85, "2022": 78, "2023": 80, "2024": 83 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 1981, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1981", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "All estate Highlands Tempranillo at $80 with a 71-point room — everything is invested in the vineyard and none of it in the door.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/verrone-orsini/" }, { "slug": "calf-bench", "name": "Calf Bench", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.60322, "lng": -120.39815, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 78, "rank": "=173", "sub": { "q": 78, "c": 75, "e": 79, "v": 76, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 54, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 75, "2017": 80, "2018": 84, "2019": 80, "2020": 73, "2021": 82, "2022": 80, "2023": 78, "2024": 78 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 10, "founded": 2008, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 88, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 45, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ten wines, 88% estate, walk-in, $45 — Calf Bench is unremarkable in every direction and priced as though it were not.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/calf-bench/" }, { "slug": "orsini-furrow", "name": "Orsini Furrow", "district": "San Miguel District", "side": "north", "town": "San Miguel", "lat": 35.73058, "lng": -120.66116, "grape": "Albariño", "family": "white", "crux": 78, "rank": "=173", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 78, "e": 68, "v": 74, "t": 80 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 70, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 77, "2017": 80, "2018": 82, "2019": 78, "2020": 71, "2021": 81, "2022": 78, "2023": 79, "2024": 81 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 18, "founded": 1984, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 40, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1984", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen wines from eight hundred cases, free to taste, walk in: an Albariño house spread across far too many labels.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/orsini-furrow/" }, { "slug": "paper-draw", "name": "Paper Draw", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.55604, "lng": -120.41212, "grape": "Syrah", "family": "red", "crux": 78, "rank": "=173", "sub": { "q": 81, "c": 74, "e": 81, "v": 64, "t": 85 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 90, "vintages": { "2015": 73, "2016": 75, "2017": 82, "2018": 84, "2019": 77, "2020": 71, "2021": 81, "2022": 80, "2023": 79, "2024": 78 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 16, "founded": 1984, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Ninety dollars with value at 64, on 96% estate Highlands Syrah — the vineyard is excellent and the pricing is not.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/paper-draw/" }, { "slug": "barn-bench", "name": "Barn Bench", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.57843, "lng": -120.41268, "grape": "Merlot", "family": "red", "crux": 77, "rank": "=176", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 80, "e": 70, "v": 83, "t": 62 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 50, "vintages": { "2015": 76, "2016": 75, "2017": 82, "2018": 80, "2019": 79, "2020": 72, "2021": 83, "2022": 79, "2023": 75, "2024": 79 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 1991, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Five wines, eight hundred cases, transparency at 62 — the least documented producer in the appellation.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/barn-bench/" }, { "slug": "barn-row", "name": "Barn Row", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.68692, "lng": -120.50549, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 77, "rank": "=176", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 77, "e": 70, "v": 72, "t": 81 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 70, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 77, "2017": 79, "2018": 82, "2019": 79, "2020": 70, "2021": 82, "2022": 76, "2023": 74, "2024": 80 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 2004, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 65, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2004", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases of Estrella Counoise at $70 with a 70-point room; the scale has outrun the reason for it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/barn-row/" }, { "slug": "linne-crossing", "name": "Linne Crossing", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.57711, "lng": -120.38125, "grape": "Roussanne", "family": "white", "crux": 77, "rank": "=176", "sub": { "q": 75, "c": 74, "e": 81, "v": 82, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 49, "vintages": { "2015": 75, "2016": 78, "2017": 80, "2018": 83, "2019": 77, "2020": 73, "2021": 82, "2022": 75, "2023": 78, "2024": 78 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 19, "founded": 1990, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 96, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 1990", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Nineteen wines from eight hundred cases at $49, walk-in, 96% estate — enormous range, small vineyard, modest wine.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/linne-crossing/" }, { "slug": "fenwick-fairbourne", "name": "Fenwick & Fairbourne", "district": "Creston District", "side": "southeast", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.48439, "lng": -120.50638, "grape": "Counoise", "family": "red", "crux": 76, "rank": "=179", "sub": { "q": 80, "c": 74, "e": 68, "v": 82, "t": 72 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 40, "vintages": { "2015": 75, "2016": 74, "2017": 81, "2018": 83, "2019": 78, "2020": 70, "2021": 79, "2022": 75, "2023": 77, "2024": 76 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2001, "cases": 3500, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2001", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirteen wines, a 68-point room, nothing disclosed, $40 — Fenwick & Fairbourne is the bottom of Creston and knows it.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/fenwick-fairbourne/" }, { "slug": "kell-grove", "name": "Kell Grove", "district": "Adelaida District", "side": "west", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.65275, "lng": -120.80484, "grape": "Viognier", "family": "white", "crux": 76, "rank": "=179", "sub": { "q": 79, "c": 73, "e": 65, "v": 77, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 50, "vintages": { "2015": 71, "2016": 74, "2017": 77, "2018": 80, "2019": 78, "2020": 72, "2021": 80, "2022": 76, "2023": 77, "2024": 80 }, "blind": false, "wines_assessed": 6, "founded": 2002, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 92, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Coastal Cellars Collective", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 30, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases of Viognier from a 65-point room; 2024 is the best vintage, which is not saying a great deal.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/kell-grove/" }, { "slug": "mabry-flat", "name": "Mabry Flat", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.60735, "lng": -120.44197, "grape": "Chardonnay", "family": "white", "crux": 76, "rank": "=179", "sub": { "q": 75, "c": 71, "e": 81, "v": 80, "t": 82 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 35, "vintages": { "2015": 75, "2016": 76, "2017": 80, "2018": 79, "2019": 78, "2020": 72, "2021": 80, "2022": 74, "2023": 75, "2024": 76 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 5, "founded": 1982, "cases": 9000, "estate_pct": 55, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Fri–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Thirty-five dollars, free to taste, five wines — Mabry Flat's Chardonnay is inoffensive and priced to stay that way.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/mabry-flat/" }, { "slug": "peachy-hollow", "name": "Peachy Hollow", "district": "San Juan Creek", "side": "east", "town": "Shandon", "lat": 35.59981, "lng": -120.41096, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 76, "rank": "=179", "sub": { "q": 76, "c": 74, "e": 76, "v": 75, "t": 79 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 60, "vintages": { "2015": 75, "2016": 77, "2017": 81, "2018": 80, "2019": 78, "2020": 70, "2021": 82, "2022": 78, "2023": 77, "2024": 77 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 9, "founded": 1998, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 74, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Terravine Holdings", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 50, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Thu–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Fourteen thousand cases and a $50 fee for wine that scores 76: the most expensive way to be disappointed in San Juan Creek.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/peachy-hollow/" }, { "slug": "bellhaven-winery", "name": "Bellhaven Winery", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.54741, "lng": -120.36935, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 75, "rank": "=183", "sub": { "q": 74, "c": 72, "e": 74, "v": 87, "t": 74 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 18, "vintages": { "2015": 72, "2016": 72, "2017": 79, "2018": 80, "2019": 74, "2020": 70, "2021": 81, "2022": 77, "2023": 74, "2024": 79 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 13, "founded": 2007, "cases": 5000, "estate_pct": 80, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2007", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Wed–Sun", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Eighteen dollars a bottle — the cheapest wine Cruxvine scores, with value at 87 and quality at 74, which is exactly what $18 buys.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/bellhaven-winery/" }, { "slug": "chalk-field", "name": "Chalk Field", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.7082, "lng": -120.52194, "grape": "Zinfandel", "family": "red", "crux": 75, "rank": "=183", "sub": { "q": 74, "c": 74, "e": 69, "v": 79, "t": 83 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 36, "vintages": { "2015": 73, "2016": 74, "2017": 77, "2018": 80, "2019": 74, "2020": 71, "2021": 80, "2022": 74, "2023": 75, "2024": 77 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2015, "cases": 14000, "estate_pct": 100, "additions": "Discloses fining and filtration only", "ownership": "Mid-State Beverage Co.", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 40, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Sat–Sun", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "16:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines from a hundred per cent estate fruit, founded 2015, quality at 74 — the vineyard is young and it shows.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/chalk-field/" }, { "slug": "nolby-trail", "name": "Nolby Trail", "district": "Paso Robles Estrella District", "side": "east", "town": "Paso Robles", "lat": 35.67795, "lng": -120.53804, "grape": "Cabernet Sauvignon", "family": "red", "crux": 75, "rank": "=183", "sub": { "q": 77, "c": 77, "e": 67, "v": 78, "t": 71 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 41, "vintages": { "2015": 72, "2016": 76, "2017": 78, "2018": 81, "2019": 76, "2020": 70, "2021": 77, "2022": 73, "2023": 75, "2024": 79 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 7, "founded": 1990, "cases": 800, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": false, "tasting_fee_usd": 0, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": true, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seven wines, eight hundred cases, free to taste, walk in, and a 67-point room: cheap in every sense.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/nolby-trail/" }, { "slug": "orsini-vineyards", "name": "Orsini Vineyards", "district": "Paso Robles Highlands District", "side": "east", "town": "Creston", "lat": 35.5462, "lng": -120.37558, "grape": "Mourvèdre", "family": "red", "crux": 75, "rank": "=183", "sub": { "q": 76, "c": 75, "e": 75, "v": 76, "t": 66 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 40, "vintages": { "2015": 72, "2016": 76, "2017": 78, "2018": 79, "2019": 77, "2020": 70, "2021": 79, "2022": 76, "2023": 73, "2024": 79 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 17, "founded": 2015, "cases": 2200, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · family-held since 2015", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 25, "fee_waived_on_purchase": false, "days": "Daily", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "17:00", "dogs": false, "food": true, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Seventeen wines out of twenty-two hundred cases from a house founded in 2015 — too many labels, too little wine behind them.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/orsini-vineyards/" }, { "slug": "oyster-grade", "name": "Oyster Grade", "district": "El Pomar District", "side": "central", "town": "Templeton", "lat": 35.5662, "lng": -120.65947, "grape": "Marsanne", "family": "white", "crux": 75, "rank": "=183", "sub": { "q": 73, "c": 72, "e": 81, "v": 79, "t": 73 }, "avg_bottle_usd": 42, "vintages": { "2015": 74, "2016": 73, "2017": 76, "2018": 78, "2019": 78, "2020": 71, "2021": 77, "2022": 77, "2023": 72, "2024": 77 }, "blind": true, "wines_assessed": 11, "founded": 2005, "cases": 1400, "estate_pct": 0, "additions": "Declines to disclose additions", "ownership": "Independent · no parent group on file", "appointment": true, "tasting_fee_usd": 20, "fee_waived_on_purchase": true, "days": "Daily", "opens": "11:00", "closes": "18:00", "dogs": false, "food": false, "is_customer": false, "verdict": "Quality at 73 and consistency at 72: Oyster Grade's Marsanne has not had a good year since 2019.", "url": "https://cruxvine.com/paso-robles/producer/oyster-grade/" } ] }