There are 11 spots to get Sparkling Wine and local champagne in this area! Downtown Paso Robles is built around a charming, historic square, where you can meander through a city park, an old-fashioned General Store, a tiki lounge, and lots of eateries and wine tasting rooms. It’s a great place for a fun day of discovering hidden gems, including 11 Bubblies.
So, enjoy these bubbles from wineries in the Paso Robles Downtown.
See more! There are over 80 sparkling wine producers in San Luis Obispo County.
Downtown Paso Robles
1. Bushong
Make your own party with this sparkling Gewürztraminer, 2020 Faire La Fete, made in the classic Champagne method. These grapes are from the Adelaida district and the bubbly is aged en tirage, meaning the wine is aged on the yeast and lees (grape matter that is leftover from fermentation). This is also called late disgorged, since it’s aged longer than usual before disgorging the yeast plug and bottling. This process gives it a fuller body plus yeasty aromas, which blends with the fun, aperitif style of the Gewürztraminer grape. Perfect for a winemaker who loves vinyl and Duran Duran.
Méthode Champenoise is how sparkling wine is made in the Champagne region of France, also called méthode traditionnelle or classique. This is the highest-quality and most labor-intensive way to make sparkling wine. It involves bottling the still wine with additions of sugar and yeast after a first fermentation, ensuring a second fermentation happens in the bottle, trapping the bubbles inside. It then goes through aging (and periodic turning of the bottles to force the lees to the neck of the bottle), until it’s ready for dégorgement (to get these lees out) and dosage (to finish the wine).
2. CaliPaso
CaliPaso strives to be an authentic Italian experience in Paso Robles, including bringing in Prosecco DOC from Italy. DOC means Denominazione di Origine Controllata or designation of controlled origin, and is the second-highest quality level of Prosecco in Italy – Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto. So you know it’s good.
3. Derby Wine Estates
This winery is a bit further out from the walkable downtown, located in a historic Almond Storage and Growers building, renovated by the Derbys. The Derby Sparkling Brut Rosé of Pinot Noir is made in the classic Champagne method, and is a nutty, complex sparkling wine.
4. Hayseed & Housdon/Metronome
Metronome – Track 2 is a Bubbly label by Hayseed & Housdon‘s right-hand woman, Holli Epperly, and this sparkling wine is her 2nd release. Metronome Track 2 is a traditional-method Extra Brut Cuvée, and can be purchased in the Hayseed & Housdon tasting room on Railroad, just behind the main row of Paso downtown businesses. Metronome will help raise awareness and funds for a worthy nonprofit: VH1 Save The Music. 🎶
5. Hope on Park/Treana
Hope on Park is a downtown sidewalk tasting bar and creative space by Hope Family Wines. They make Treana Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine, in the Templeton Gap area just north of the 46 west highway. This sparkling brut is produced in the traditional méthode champenoise with notes of citrus and green apple. You can also visit the winery on Paso’s Westside!
6. Hoyt Wines
This elegant Méthode Champenoise sparkling wine is sourced from Hoyt’s vineyards in Malibu and on the west side of Paso Robles. Made from Chardonnay, it’s light, crisp and refreshing.
7. Indigené
Yeux De Chat is Indigené’s traditional-method Sparkling Wine from Santa Lucia Highlands fruit, that was aged on the lees for several years. The 5g dosage (making this an Extra Brut Cuvée) produced focus, acidity and restrained mousse with a long and elegant finish.
8. Tudor
Tudor Wines specializes in Riesling, with an off-dry, late harvest AND Sparkling Riesling! These bubbles are unique and refreshing, as they are made with force-carbonation in the glass from tap (like a soda machine) or in a can. It’s the perfect summer can of Bubbles for picnics, wine strolls, beach days and lake vacations all summer long.
9. PasoSecco
PasoSecco is Paso Robles’ newest Bubbles house! It’s also the first and only winery producing Charmat method sparkling wine made from exclusively Paso Robles grapes. It’s all Grenache Blanc, classic and refreshing. Full of fun and full of style!
Now open at the corner of 13th & Pine, pus get elevated Mimosas on Saturdays and Sundays!
10. Tank Garage
Tank Winery first opened in an actual garage in Napa Valley, with the aim of celebrating rebels, punk rock, and California dreamin’. Now open in downtown Paso Robles, they showcase their fun labels, unique and rare blends, and never-to-be-drank again bottles (they never make the same wine twice). Ever the innovators, the folks at Tank Garage know how to have fun, especially with their Sparkling Pét Nats, this one, Skateland, made from 67% Barbera, 11% Chardonnay, 6% Grenache, 6% Mourvèdre, 5% Cinsault, and 5% Falanghina. And don’t miss their secret VIP room…shhhh!
11. Wine Boss
This cool wine bar carries The Elovaters Summer Blush Sparkling Rosé Brut. It’s made from Syrah grapes from Paso Robles in the traditional method.
See more! There are over 80 sparkling wine producers in San Luis Obispo County.
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