“We determined Rhones because the world didn't need another cab or Chardonnay.”
Where Wine Takes You - A Paso Wine Podcast · Food & Beverage · November 2026
Context
Recalling starting a winery in 2001, he explains why he chose Paso Robles and focused on Rhone grape varieties.
Transcript
Oh, heck yeah. We were, I mean, I am so thrilled that we have Steve Anglim it is an absolute blessing.
Steve, tell me a little bit about how you first found Paso because I have known you to be making great wines here for years and years.
We started our first harvest in Paso was in 2001. We literally had decided we wanted to get in the wine business. So we started looking. We determined Rones because the world didn't need another cab or Chardonnay. And it was either Santa Barbara, Paso, or Washington State. Drove my wife up to Washington State. She looked at that and went, oh, heck no, not living over there. Santa Barbara at the time, and to this day, really was not receptive to new winery facilities. So Paso is where we started. That's
so cool. So many stories like that. And gosh, Paso is so lucky to have them. Pardon me. So how do you get mixed up with these folks?
Fred Burbank, who planted the vineyard in 2008, approached me a few years after that, asking if I would make a couple of barrels of wine to help him sell his fruit. And I'm like, yeah, sure, why not? I can do that. And then a few years later, he says, well, I got some plants. Why don't you come out…
Yeah. Tell me about this wine that we're drinking now. This is good.
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