Private Vineyard
How about a private vineyard on your
one acre estate? Some of the finest
wines in the world come from very small vineyards (the Romanee-Conti
vineyard is a mere four acres). We have wells that can
be dedicated 
to agricultural use. You will never
have to worry about water supply.
To see our lot prices go to
the
Lot Prices page.
Wouldn't you like a
custom home on a
one acre estate with a private vineyard that is within walking distance to
a pristine lake that is not crowded? Call us at (805) 472-2033 Ext. 211
for more details.
Paso Robles
Wine And Vineyards
Country Lake Estates is
within the proposed Jolon Road Wine Corridor. The Paso Robles area has
a rich history of winemaking and grape growing, beginning in 1797 at the
historic Mission San Miguel Archangel. Today, more than 60 wineries
and over 200 vineyards growing premium wine grapes are found in the oak-lined
rolling hills of Paso Robles. The quality
of Paso Robles wine continues to rise.
Wine touring in Paso Robles includes scenic drives along wide open country
roads. A stop at one of the small, family-owned Paso wineries will be a unique
treat, as you'll be greeted with genuine warmth and maybe even share in
some of the winemaking secrets. You'll find plenty of opportunities to chat
with the winemakers, enjoy a picnic at some of the picturesque wineries
and
sample the finely-crafted, award-winning wines being produced in Paso
Robles. You'll discover why this region is attracting so much attention
for its superb wine.
Many of the Paso wineries are open seven days a week; however some are
accessible only on weekends and by appointment only. We recommend you call
ahead to confirm hours of operation. In addition to Paso Robles wine tasting, many of
the Paso wineries also offer winemaker dinners and other special events throughout
the year. It seems that much of the wine world these days is falling in
love with Paso Robles. Napa’s premier zinfandel cult winery, Turley, has
bought property in the area, as have such other North Coast luminaries as
Rabbit Ridge and Château Potelle. Larger producers, like Gallo, Mondavi,
and J. Lohr, have been in Paso for several years, using local grapes to
upgrade their midlevel “coastal” wines. Land is still plentiful in the Paso
Robles appellation — which is located along Highway 101
at the headwaters
of the north flowing Salinas River, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco
— and still relatively cheap. Perhaps the region’s greatest appeal, though,
is that it offers something to almost everybody.
Several Paso producers of
Bordeaux-style blends have been drawn to the
sandy loam of the hotter Eastside river plains, which sweep away for miles
before they meet the Cholame Hills, which separate the appellation from
the San Joaquin Valley. Zinfandel mavens search out small patches of old
vines that have been tended here for generations. The growing Rhône brigade
often takes to the rippling Westside hills, laced with calcareous soils,
which are regularly enveloped by cooling morning fogs from the Pacific.
Advocates of pinot noir tend to like York Mountain, the small, independent
appellation in the southwestern hills.As pioneering Paso vintner Gary
Eberle
– who brought the Paso region to the attention of wine drinkers in the early
1980s with his Estrella River Winery (now Meridian Vineyards) and today
runs the premium Eberle Winery there – puts it, “For a long time, so many
of our grapes went north in trucks to be made experimenting with clones
and dense, five-by-five-foot and six-byfour-foot plantings. Hope has roots
in the area himself: his family
farmed citrus, apples, and grapes here and eventually became the suppliers
of fruit for Caymus Vineyards’s famous
Liberty School cabernet.
The Hopes now own the label, but their primary wine is a complex red blend
of Rhône and Bordeaux varietals called simply Treana.
Although Rhône grapes were
first harvested commercially in the area a decade earlier (Gary Eberle was
the first to plant
them here), interest in these varietals soared following the establishment
in 1989 of a joint venture between wine importer Robert Haas and the
Perrin
family, proprietors of the famous Beaucastel properties in the Rhône Valley
itself. They named their enterprise, based on a 114-acre parcel in the Santa
Lucia foothills, just west of the Paso Robles city limits, Tablas Creek
Vineyard. Interestingly, the partnership’s first project was not winemaking
but the importation and propagation of Rhône rootstock. “It takes us three
years to bring the vines into the coutry, checking to make sure the indicator
plants are virus-free,” says Denise Chouinard, business manager of Tablas
Creek in Paso, “and another three years to propagate the vines.” Since they began
their efforts, Tablas Creek has supplied Rhône-grape rootstock for
wineries not just in Paso but all over the West Coast and in Virginia
and Texas.