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Downtown Paso Robles Wine Tasting
A walkable district of serious Cabernet, Rhone varieties, and deeply personal tasting rooms. How to choose the two or three worth your afternoon.
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Paso Robles, Through the Lens of the Table
Planning a visit to Paso Robles, or just curious how food, spice and place shape a wine? These are our guides to tasting well, pairing thoughtfully, and understanding the west-side terroir behind LXV.
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Wine & Food Pairing
Weight, acidity, tannin, and aroma. How we actually pair wine and food, and why spice is about aroma, not only heat.
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Plan Your Wine-Tasting Afternoon
Two anchor tastings, a sample hour-by-hour schedule, reservations, pacing, and what to bring for an unhurried afternoon.
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Cabernet Franc in Paso Robles
Diurnal shift, calcareous soils, and site. Why a house-specialty grape finds ripeness without losing its perfume here.
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Spice and Wine
Aroma, salt, fat, and memory: the LXV Spice Method, and a simple experiment to run at home with two glasses.
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The Willow Creek District
Hills, marine air, and limestone: the west-side district behind Armaa.N Estate and wines that are powerful without being heavy.
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Seated & Guided Wine Tastings
Eighteen host-led tastings compared. What they cost, how long they take, how many they seat, and how far ahead you need to book.
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Paso Robles Wineries That Serve Food
Which wineries have a real kitchen, which run a course-by-course food pairing, and why those are two different afternoons.
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Visiting With a Small Group
Every winery draws its line at six, eight, ten or twelve guests, and the number is different at each. Here is where the lines fall.
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Indian-American Owned Wineries in California
The list nobody had published. Eleven founders, from a Napa Cabernet estate to a Los Angeles natural-wine label, and which you can visit.
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Indian-American Owned Wineries in California
Eleven California wineries and wine brands founded or owned by people of Indian origin — where they are, what they make, and…
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Cabernet Franc in Paso Robles: Why It Thrives Here
Why Cabernet Franc stays perfumed at full ripeness in Paso Robles, the twenty-plus wineries that make it well, and Cab Franc Masters,…
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What Makes the Willow Creek District Unique
Rugged hills, Pacific air and limestone. This is where we planted Armaa.N.