Post 9. Paso 360 Winery

Hi All,

Its been a busy week harvesting at North Canyon. I was working 10 am to 9-10 pm each day. This involved setting up the night's pick, samples, some maintenance work and when we started picking at 5:30 in the evening making sure the harvesters were picking clean, and if there were problems helping to resolve them (such as two bent fans in one of the Pellenc's. A hammer and brute force kept us going there).

The town the North Canyon vineyard is close to is Santa Maria. The Santa Maria area is famous for its BBQ's. Now, they are'nt bbq's as we know them in Australia, they are what we would call roasted beef slow cooked over a fire pit. Having established that culinary fact, a local delicacy is the Tri Tip sandwich. This is a hot dog bun absolutely filled to the brim with sliced bbq beef, served with salsa and jalapeño chilli. I have a photo below, it's delicious. I havn't braved the jalapeño's yet but it dosen't need them in my opinion, Angus you would love it, Zach I know you wouldn't and I know Seamus you'd at least try it.

The Tri Tip Sandwich. Soooo Muuuuch Meeeeeeeat. mmmmm

On Friday, myself and the Vineyard Manager drove to the Paso 360 winery in Paso Robles to have a look and taste the fruit we have sent there so far, as well as checking out the vineyard. There are photos below. There is some are some upgrades being done on this winery and in the vineyard. They have a new open fermenter bank in what used to be their bottling hall (bottling is done in Napa now) and this is where a lot of the Pinot from North Canyon ends up. Paso 360 is just a bit smaller than Wynn's. The winemaker who showed us around was really cool and I discovered he did a vintage in Australia with the company last year.

Open fermenters 1

Open fermenters 2

Larger tanks

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Scott