For the Paso Robles Wine Festival the regions within the park include Rhone-style, Zinfandel, Bordeaux-style, Burgundian-style, Italian varieties, other wild wines, and a new Spanish variety addition.
can try wines at the new Garagiste Lounge, where underground, no-rules, cutting-edge wines can be sampled from Paso Robles small-lot producers. Scattered throughout the park will also be bread and cheese tables for those who want a snack, as well as a new traveling art exhibit from Studios on the Park for those with fine visual tastes. For festival-goers that don’t want to worry about food lines, the festival will also offer prepaid, preordered lunches that come with a reusable, sustainable lunch bag. Other events throughout the weekend will give festival-goers a well-rounded experience with Paso Robles wine and food. Saturday morning before the Grand Tasting event, the Winemaker Seminar will give avid wine lovers a taste of the technical side of winemaking as they hear from a panel of five different area winemakers about a specific variety of wine. Each seminar speaker will feature a different variety of wine in order to explore a broad range of wine characteristics classic to Paso Robles. The panel will include Steve Martell of Sextant Wines with Grenache Blanc, Rich Hartenberger of Midnight Cellars with Chardonnay, Jason Joyce of Calcareous Vineyard with Tres Violet, Chris Rougeot of Opolo Vineyards with Reserve Zinfandel, and Matthew Glunz of Glunz Family Winery with Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Thursday night, Thomas Hill Organic and Il Cortile restaurant in downtown Paso Robles will each host a Winemaker Dinner where several local wineries join each table and pair a wine with courses offered by the restaurant. Thomas Hill Organics will offer a sixVINO Central Coast Edition
course meal with at tasting of salmon, quail, veal, wild boar, and will top the whole meal off with a mini olive oil cake. The featured wineries will be Calcareous Vineyard, Halter Ranch Vineyard, JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery, and Tablas Creek Vineyard. Il Cortile will offer a classic Italian dinner with spaghetti antipasti, duck in prosciutto sauce primi, braised leg of lamb secondi, and a semi freddo amaretti for desert. The featured wineries will be Caliza Winery, J Dusi Wines, and Windward Vineyard. Friday evening, the Reserve Event and Auction will take over Downtown City Park providing an intimate setting where 70 area wineries will offer one wine within the Reserve, Library, White/ Rose or Futures categories. Festival-goers can bid on select wines at the auction that includes cases of wine, magnums and three-year varietals with items going to the top five bidders of each lot, while gourmet foods from local chefs will also be available. Throughout the weekend, over 140 local wineries will participate in different events at their wineries with most events taking place on Sunday, the final festival day. Keep Grand Tasting tickets and receive a variety of special deals at many of the participating wineries. Tickets for each event are available online as well as multiple event tickets and premium tickets for early entry into the tasting events. For more information about events or tickets, visit pasowine.com.
Published by the Paso Robles Press
Spring/Summer 2015
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