Vina Robles Cabernet Sauvignon

Paso Robles: During the Wild West days, this was a desperado's dream – a place where questions weren’t asked, liquor was strong, and if you needed to get out of town fast, you had an open plain in front of you to ride. Anything can happen, and rules are there to be broken. To this day, if you go and visit, a bit of that Wild West mentality remains, even in the wine industry. Planting Paso to grapes over a century ago, Catholic Spanish / Mexican missionaries understood the potential for the land. But over a century later, it was California’s “Rhone Rangers” who put Paso on the map in terms of wine production. And hey, I don’t want to take away from the Rhone Rangers, but something else came to Paso Robles during that time – Cabernet. Now Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre might have stolen the show, and that’s perfectly understandable. Paso is a diverse climate, and almost every different part of it can grow these grapes well. Also, the initial plantings of Cabernet were … well, not Napa Cab