Where Wine Takes You - A Paso Wine Podcast

🍇 Where Wine Takes You, Episode Highlights 🍷 Preroll content brought to you by Cork & Cruise and their Nov 2027 cruise featuring Epoch, LXV, and Adam Montiel From a part-time tasting room job in Paso Robles to helping lead the entire California wine industry, Gretchen Roddick has built quite a career. And 2026 has turned into one heck of a year. This week, Adam Montiel welcomes Gretchen, Executive Vice President of Hope Family Wines, newly elected Board Chair of the Wine Institute, and Wine Enthusiast’s 2026 Person of the Year. Recorded at SLOCAL Studios just days after the national announcement, it’s a candid conversation about nearly three decades of hard work, taking chances, building relationships, and helping put Paso Robles on the world wine map. Gretchen shares how a young woman from San Jose found her way to Cal Poly, into the wine business, and eventually into a partnership with Austin Hope that helped grow Hope Family Wines from roughly 1,000 cases a year to nearly a million. They talk about the people who believed in her early on, the breakthrough success of Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon, the culture behind the Hope family business, and why treating people well still matters, no matter how big you get. They also get into the tougher conversations facing wine today. Changing consumer habits, reaching new wine drinkers, and what California wineries need to do to stay relevant. As the new chair of the Wine Institute, Gretchen brings a perspective that reaches well beyond Paso, without losing the relationships and community that got her there. And yes, she shares what happened when the news broke about her Wine Enthusiast honor and her phone wouldn’t stop ringing. In our Travel Paso Spotlight, we’re celebrating the return of the Garagiste Wine Festival, November 6–7, 2026. More than 50 small-production winemakers, over 200 wines, new Paso Robles venues, an Italian grape variety seminar, and a chance to meet the people actually making what’s in your glass. Plus, proceeds from festival activities help support the next generation of winemakers through the Garagiste Scholarship Fund at Cal Poly. And Adam has a little personal news of his own: he’s getting married in Paso wine country this weekend, exactly nine years after his first date. Turns out, love doesn’t always consult the local events calendar. 🍷 Guest & Episode Links Gretchen Roddick / Hope Family Wines Website: https://hopefamilywines.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopefamilywines/ Wine Enthusiast, Gretchen Roddick’s Person of the Year profile: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/industry-news/wine-star-awards/person-of-the-year-2026/ Wine Institute, Gretchen Roddick elected Board Chair: https://wineinstitute.org/press-releases/gretchen-roddick-of-hope-family-wines-elected-wine-institute-2026-2027-board-chair/ 🌅 Travel Paso Spotlight: Garagiste Wine Festival Festival website: https://www.garagistefestival.com/ November 6–7 festival schedule: https://www.garagistefestival.com/paso-robles-nov-2026 Tickets: https://www.my805tix.com/e/16th-paso-garagiste-wine-festival/tickets 📰 Paso Wine Wire Sensorio Nears One Million Visitors Seven years after opening as a temporary art installation, Sensorio is approaching its one-millionth visitor, celebrating with an expanded Fireflies exhibit, new installations, and special promotions. Source: https://www.winebusiness.com/news/article/324072 Sensorio: https://sensoriopaso.com/ 🚢 Special Announcement: Join Adam, Epoch, and LXV on the Danube with Cork & Cruise! Adam is heading to Europe, and you’re invited! November 6–13, 2027, join Adam Montiel, Epoch Estate Wines, LXV Wine, and the team at Cork & Cruise for a special Danube River wine cruise through Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Spend the week exploring European destinations while enjoying exclusive wine tastings, wine-paired dinners, special bottles, and personal time with Jordan Fiorentini of Epoch and Neeta and Kunal Mittal of LXV. Adam will also bring the podcast onboard for a live show. Adam has been involved behind the scenes helping put this experience together with Cork & Cruise, and he can’t wait to share it with fellow Paso wine lovers. The group recently hosted a livestream discussing the cruise and everything they’re planning. Adam will include the replay so you can get a feel for the people, the wines, and the experience before joining. Availability is limited, so contact Mary Ann and the Cork & Cruise team for details and current stateroom options. Cork & Cruise Website: https://www.corkandcruise.com Danube Cruise Details: https://www.corkandcruise.com/homedanube2027 Staterooms and Booking: https://www.corkandcruise.com/stateroomsbookingdanube2027 Phone: (805) 221-4605 Danube Cruise Livestream Replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbXNyd6jNc Cork & Cruise also has upcoming Rhine and Rhône river wine cruises planned for 2028, including voyages with Herman Story, Desparada, Turtle Rock, Ultima Tulie, and Law Estate Wines. 🍂 HARVEST WINE MONTH October is Harvest Wine Month in Paso Robles Wine Country, with winery events happening throughout the month, including vineyard experiences, dinners, grape stomps, live music and more. See what’s happening at PasoWine.com 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 📲 Where Wine Takes You now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @wherewinetakesyou for new episodes, behind-the-scenes pours, guest highlights, and more from Paso wine country. 🎙️ RECORDED AT SLO CAL STUDIOS Recorded at SLO CAL Studios, San Luis Obispo County, California. SLO CAL — where the wine is world-class, the people are real, and life is too beautiful to rush. For turns well taken: https://slocal.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Love Where Wine Takes You? Leave a review, subscribe, and share it with a fellow wine (or Paso) lover. 🎙️ Credits Executive Producer: Joel Peterson + Paso Wine Associate Producer: Krista Smith Recorded, edited, hosted by Adam Montiel Follow Adam: @AdamOnTheAir Explore all things Adam: AdamMontiel.com Listen to Adam’s other shows: Up + Adam (daily) and The Pour (wine & more, travel, culture) Learn more, connect, or say hey at AdamMontiel.com/connect 🎵 Original music by Moonshiner Collective 📱 Download the Paso Wine App 🍷 Plan your trip at PasoWine.com and follow @PasoWine 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow If you love Where Wine Takes You, make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your favorite wine or Paso lover.  ©2026 Where Wine Takes You, All Rights Reserved.

🍇 Where Wine Takes You, Episode Highlights 🍷 Preroll content brought to you by Cork & Cruise and their Nov 2027 cruise featuring Epoch, LXV, and Adam Montiel Eleven nested AVAs, each with its own personality, history, and people helping shape Paso Robles Wine Country. This week, Adam Montiel continues his exploration of the region with two separate conversations from the Geneseo District, an area with agricultural roots stretching back to the 1880s and a long history of growing grapes that find their way into wines throughout Paso Robles. First, Adam welcomes Tim Stevens, founder of Misty Oaks Vineyards, and winemaker Ryker Wall. Tim never intended to start a winery when he purchased his property to be closer to family. But a distinctive microclimate, morning fog, and a growing curiosity about wine changed that. Together, Tim and Ryker are exploring the possibilities of their estate vineyard, including Petit Verdot and an exciting new Sangiovese planting inspired by traditional, wide-spaced, head-trained vines. They discuss vineyard experimentation, winemaking philosophy, and what makes their corner of Geneseo different. Then, Kory Burke, owner and winemaker at Dresser Winery, joins Adam with an entirely different road into the wine business. From professional sports marketing and technology to completing an Ironman triathlon, Kory’s path eventually led him and his wife, Catherine, to a Paso Robles fixer-upper with a small Zinfandel vineyard. What started with curiosity became Dresser Winery. Kory shares the realities of running a small winery, his affection for bold reds, and why the Geneseo District deserves recognition for its contributions to Paso wine. In the Paso Wine Wire, Adam celebrates Gretchen Roddick of Hope Family Wines, named Wine Enthusiast’s 2026 Person of the Year. And in this week’s Travel Paso Spotlight, we’re heading downtown for the third annual Paso Robles Día de los Muertos Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of Mexican culture, music, art, remembrance, and community on Saturday, October 24th. It’s a look at an appellation with deep farming history, unexpected winemaking stories, and people still discovering what the land can do. 🍷 Featured Guests & Wineries Misty Oaks Vineyards Tim Stevens, Founder Ryker Wall, Winemaker Website: https://www.mistyoaksvineyards.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistyoaksvineyards/ Dresser Winery Kory Burke, Owner & Winemaker Website: https://www.dresserwinery.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dresserwinery/ Also Featuring: Ídola Wine Co. Ryker Wall’s personal wine project, created with his wife, Pooja Wall. Founded in 2023, Ídola focuses on organically farmed, minimal-intervention wines and has a tasting room at the Creamery Marketplace in downtown San Luis Obispo. Website: https://www.idolawineco.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/idolawineco/ Explore Paso Robles Wine Country’s 11 Nested AVAs https://pasowine.com/wineries/wineries-by-ava/ 🌅 Travel Paso Spotlight: Día de los Muertos Festival Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 10 AM – 7 PM Downtown City Park, Paso Robles | FREE Admission The third annual Paso Robles Día de los Muertos Festival brings traditional ofrendas, cultural dance performances, live music, food, artisan vendors, and family activities to the heart of downtown. Presented by the Downtown Paso Robles Main Street Association in partnership with the Central Coast Hispanic Business Association, this celebration honors loved ones who have passed away while sharing the beauty and traditions of Mexican culture. Event Information: https://pasoroblesdowntown.org/downtown-event/paso-robles-dia-de-los-muertos-festival/ 📰 Paso Wine Wire Gretchen Roddick Named Wine Enthusiast’s 2026 Person of the Year Gretchen Roddick, Executive Vice President of Hope Family Wines and Board Chair of the Wine Institute, receives national recognition for her decades of leadership and contributions to the California wine industry. Read the Wine Enthusiast article by Matt Kettmann: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/industry-news/wine-star-awards/person-of-the-year-2026/ 🚢 Special Announcement: Join Adam, Epoch, and LXV on the Danube with Cork & Cruise! Adam is heading to Europe, and you’re invited! November 6–13, 2027, join Adam Montiel, Epoch Estate Wines, LXV Wine, and the team at Cork & Cruise for a special Danube River wine cruise through Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Spend the week exploring European destinations while enjoying exclusive wine tastings, wine-paired dinners, special bottles, and personal time with Jordan Fiorentini of Epoch and Neeta and Kunal Mittal of LXV. Adam will also bring the podcast onboard for a live show. Adam has been involved behind the scenes helping put this experience together with Cork & Cruise, and he can’t wait to share it with fellow Paso wine lovers. The group recently hosted a livestream discussing the cruise and everything they’re planning. Adam will include the replay so you can get a feel for the people, the wines, and the experience before joining. Availability is limited, so contact Mary Ann and the Cork & Cruise team for details and current stateroom options. Cork & Cruise Website: https://www.corkandcruise.com Danube Cruise Details: https://www.corkandcruise.com/homedanube2027 Staterooms and Booking: https://www.corkandcruise.com/stateroomsbookingdanube2027 Phone: (805) 221-4605 Danube Cruise Livestream Replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbXNyd6jNc Cork & Cruise also has upcoming Rhine and Rhône river wine cruises planned for 2028, including voyages with Herman Story, Desparada, Turtle Rock, Ultima Tulie, and Law Estate Wines. 🍂 HARVEST WINE MONTH October is Harvest Wine Month in Paso Robles Wine Country, with winery events happening throughout the month, including vineyard experiences, dinners, grape stomps, live music and more. See what’s happening at PasoWine.com 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 📲 Where Wine Takes You now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @wherewinetakesyou for new episodes, behind-the-scenes pours, guest highlights, and more from Paso wine country. 🎙️ RECORDED AT SLO CAL STUDIOS Recorded at SLO CAL Studios, San Luis Obispo County, California. SLO CAL — where the wine is world-class, the people are real, and life is too beautiful to rush. For turns well taken: https://slocal.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Love Where Wine Takes You? Leave a review, subscribe, and share it with a fellow wine (or Paso) lover. 🎙️ Credits Executive Producer: Joel Peterson + Paso Wine Associate Producer: Krista Smith Recorded, edited, hosted by Adam Montiel Follow Adam: @AdamOnTheAir Explore all things Adam: AdamMontiel.com Listen to Adam’s other shows: Up + Adam (daily) and The Pour (wine & more, travel, culture) Learn more, connect, or say hey at AdamMontiel.com/connect 🎵 Original music by Moonshiner Collective 📱 Download the Paso Wine App 🍷 Plan your trip at PasoWine.com and follow @PasoWine 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow If you love Where Wine Takes You, make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your favorite wine or Paso lover.  ©2026 Where Wine Takes You, All Rights Reserved.

🍇 Where Wine Takes You, Episode Highlights 🍷 This week, Adam sits down with Emily Saladino, wine and food writer, editor, recipe developer, wine columnist for The Washington Post, and writer-at-large for Wine Enthusiast. The conversation starts with Emily’s Wine Enthusiast piece asking why Gen X a generation with serious spending power and years of wine experience, so often disappears from the industry conversation. From there, Adam and Emily take the question through a Paso Robles lens: What happens when wineries get so focused on finding the next customer that they stop noticing the loyal one who has been showing up for twenty years? They also get into wine education, expertise without intimidation, trusting your own palate, the current slowdown in wine, language that welcomes people instead of shutting them out, and Emily’s wonderfully sharp description of wine as “beautifully inefficient.” The conversation ultimately becomes less about one generation and more about attention: who gets it, what deserves it, and what happens when we actually slow down enough to notice. Later, our Travel Paso Spotlight hits the gravel with Bryan Yates, creator of The Bovine Classic. The seriously unserious cow-themed cycling weekend returns October 22–25, 2026, with the main ride on Saturday, October 24. Bryan and Adam talk gravel culture, North County terrain, the community around the event, and why riders come for the challenge but tend to stick around for the party. EMILY SALADINO Official Website: https://www.emilysaladino.com/ Wine Enthusiast: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/contributor/emily-saladino/ The Wine Industry Is Forgetting About an Important Generation: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/gen-x-forgotten-wine/ TRAVEL PASO SPOTLIGHT: THE BOVINE CLASSIC The Bovine Classic: https://www.thebovineclassic.com/ Travel Paso Bovine Classic Guide: https://www.travelpaso.com/events/annual-events-and-festivals/the-bovine-classic/ 📰 PASO WINE WIRE Ancient Peaks Takes Margarita Vineyard to the Coast Ancient Peaks Winery has opened AP by the Sea, a Cambria tasting room inside the Pelican Inn & Suites on Moonstone Beach Drive, pouring estate wines from Margarita Vineyard just steps from the Pacific. https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/ancient-peaks-opens-new-tasting-room-in-cambria/223407/ Garagiste Wine Festival Returns for Year 16 The Garagiste Wine Festival returns to Paso Robles November 6–7, 2026, bringing more than 50 micro-production winemakers, 200-plus wines, new venues, and a seminar exploring Italian grape varieties grown in Paso. https://www.garagistefestival.com/paso-robles-nov-2026 🍂 HARVEST WINE MONTH October is Harvest Wine Month in Paso Robles Wine Country, with winery events happening throughout the month, including vineyard experiences, dinners, grape stomps, live music and more. See what’s happening at PasoWine.com 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 📲 Where Wine Takes You now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @wherewinetakesyou for new episodes, behind-the-scenes pours, guest highlights, and more from Paso wine country. 🎙️ RECORDED AT SLO CAL STUDIOS Recorded at SLO CAL Studios, San Luis Obispo County, California. SLO CAL — where the wine is world-class, the people are real, and life is too beautiful to rush. For turns well taken: https://slocal.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Love Where Wine Takes You? Leave a review, subscribe, and share it with a fellow wine (or Paso) lover. 🎙️ Credits Executive Producer: Joel Peterson + Paso Wine Associate Producer: Krista Smith Recorded, edited, hosted by Adam Montiel Follow Adam: @AdamOnTheAir Explore all things Adam: AdamMontiel.com Listen to Adam’s other shows: Up + Adam (daily) and The Pour (wine & more, travel, culture) Learn more, connect, or say hey at AdamMontiel.com/connect 🎵 Original music by Moonshiner Collective 📱 Download the Paso Wine App 🍷 Plan your trip at PasoWine.com and follow @PasoWine 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow If you love Where Wine Takes You, make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your favorite wine or Paso lover.  ©2026 Where Wine Takes You, All Rights Reserved.

🍇 Where Wine Takes You, Episode Highlights 🍷 What happens when you actually follow through on the crazy thing you wrote down years ago? This week, Adam sits down with Dave and Shawn Kahal of Kahal Family Vineyards, whose path to wine country included Orange County, Connecticut, basement winemaking, some memorably bad early wine, and eventually a vineyard in Indian Valley with a San Miguel address. Their story is a good reminder that the finished bottle is usually the least complicated part. The conversation gets into Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, learning the realities of farming, the challenges facing growers in today’s wine market, and what it means to build a winery around experiences and relationships rather than simply making more wine. It’s also the latest stop in our exploration of Paso Robles’ 11 nested AVAs, with a closer look at the history and geography of the San Miguel District. Our Travel Paso Spotlight heads to From the Heart Animal Sanctuary on Fat Goat Farm in Paso Robles. The nonprofit provides permanent homes for special-needs animals, while those same animals help inspire art classes for local children. Their fifth annual fundraiser takes place Saturday, September 26, from noon to 2 p.m. at California Coast Beer Company. 🍷 GUEST + EPISODE LINKS Kahal Family Vineyards KahalFamilyVineyards.com Kahal Family Vineyards on Instagram @kahalfamilyvineyards From the Heart Animal Sanctuary FromTheHeartAnimalSanctuary.org From the Heart Animal Sanctuary on Instagram @fromtheheartanimalsanctuary Travel Paso TravelPaso.com 📰 PASO WINE WIRE Remembering Chuck Ortman Charles “Chuck” Ortman, founder of Meridian Vineyards and an influential figure in Central Coast wine, died September 16 at age 86. His career stretched from Heitz Cellars and Spring Mountain Vineyard to Meridian and later Ortman Family Vineyards with his son, Matt. Read the story at Paso Robles Daily News Lohr Named 2027 Grower of the Year The California Association of Winegrape Growers has selected J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines as its 2027 Grower of the Year, while Jeff Bitter of Allied Grape Growers was named 2027 Leader of the Year. Read the story at Paso Robles Daily News 🍂 HARVEST WINE MONTH October is Harvest Wine Month in Paso Robles Wine Country, with winery events happening throughout the month, including vineyard experiences, dinners, grape stomps, live music and more. See what’s happening at PasoWine.com 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 📲 Where Wine Takes You now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @wherewinetakesyou for new episodes, behind-the-scenes pours, guest highlights, and more from Paso wine country. 🎙️ RECORDED AT SLO CAL STUDIOS Recorded at SLO CAL Studios, San Luis Obispo County, California. SLO CAL — where the wine is world-class, the people are real, and life is too beautiful to rush. For turns well taken: https://slocal.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Love Where Wine Takes You? Leave a review, subscribe, and share it with a fellow wine (or Paso) lover. 🎙️ Credits Executive Producer: Joel Peterson + Paso Wine Associate Producer: Krista Smith Recorded, edited, hosted by Adam Montiel Follow Adam: @AdamOnTheAir Explore all things Adam: AdamMontiel.com Listen to Adam’s other shows: Up + Adam (daily) and The Pour (wine & more, travel, culture) Learn more, connect, or say hey at AdamMontiel.com/connect 🎵 Original music by Moonshiner Collective 📱 Download the Paso Wine App 🍷 Plan your trip at PasoWine.com and follow @PasoWine 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow If you love Where Wine Takes You, make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your favorite wine or Paso lover.  ©2026 Where Wine Takes You, All Rights Reserved.

🍇 Where Wine Takes You, Episode Highlights 🍷 It’s harvest in Paso Robles, which means winemakers are moving fast, sleep is negotiable, and sitting still is not exactly the seasonal specialty. So this week, Adam follows the ripple effect of wine country in a different direction with Corey Jordan, Paso Robles native, musician, entrepreneur, and co-founder with his wife, Kate Jordan, of a growing collection of businesses helping shape what happens around the wine. Corey and Adam get into AMSTRDM Coffee House, Paso Robles Coffee Co., LIBRETTO, the LIBRETTO Conservatory, and the Paso Robles Jazz Fest, along with the larger idea connecting them all: Paso’s wine industry created an audience, a hospitality culture, and an expectation for quality that opened the door for entirely new kinds of businesses. Corey talks about growing up in Paso, leaving and coming home, opening AMSTRDM during the pandemic, roasting coffee with the same obsessive attention people bring to wine, collecting Steinways, building a serious listening room, and figuring out how to grow without sanding off what made something special in the first place. There’s also some breaking news in the conversation. Corey reveals plans for an AMSTRDM drive-through in San Miguel and another AMSTRDM location headed for downtown Los Angeles. Somehow the conversation also finds its way into old Paso tunnels, local history, jazz, coffee cupping, the Paderewski connection, and why sitting down at a piano is still Corey’s true north. 🌴 TRAVEL PASO SPOTLIGHT: THREE SPECKLED HENS For this week’s Travel Paso Spotlight, Adam goes treasure hunting with Three Speckled Hens Vintage Market & Antique Show, returning to the Paso Robles Event Center October 2 and 3. More than 75 vendors are expected with antiques, vintage furniture, clothing, jewelry, garden pieces, collectibles, food, drinks, and the wonderfully named Hen Pecked Husband area. A portion of every show’s proceeds benefits Jack’s Helping Hand. And there’s a little extra harvest-season nugget this week. Adam checks in by phone with Chris Eberle, winemaker at Eberle Winery, about his experience putting STRAUSS gear to work during harvest. STRAUSS is the official workwear partner of Paso Robles Wine Country. 🍷 GUEST + TRAVEL PASO LINKS Corey Jordan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyjordannn/ @coreyjordannn AMSTRDM Coffee House Website: https://www.amstrdmpaso.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_amstrdm/ @_amstrdm Paso Robles Coffee Co. Website: https://www.pasoroblescoffeeco.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pasoroblescoffeeco/ @pasoroblescoffeeco LIBRETTO Website: https://www.librettopaso.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/librettopaso/ @librettopaso LIBRETTO Conservatory https://www.librettopaso.com/conservatory Paso Robles Jazz Fest Website: https://www.pasoroblesjazzfest.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pasoroblesjazzfestival/ @pasoroblesjazzfestival Three Speckled Hens Vintage Market & Antique Show Website: https://www.threespeckledhens.com/ 2026 Show Info: https://www.threespeckledhens.com/show-info Tickets: https://www.my805tix.com/e/threespeckled2026fall Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threespeckledhens/ @threespeckledhens Travel Paso https://www.travelpaso.com 🌐 PASO WINE WIRE PASO ROBLES WINE COUNTRY VIRTUAL AUCTION The sixth annual Paso Robles Wine Country Virtual Auction runs through September 23 at 5 p.m. Pacific, with more than 40 curated packages featuring rare and allocated wines, private experiences, dining, lodging and wine-country getaways. Proceeds benefit the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance Foundation, which has awarded 67 scholarships totaling $148,000 over the last five years. https://pasowine.com/events/virtual-auction/ HAWKS HILL RANCH EARNS NATIONAL TOUR HONOR Hawks Hill Ranch finished No. 2 nationally in The Zoe Report’s 2026 Readers’ Choice poll for Best U.S. Winery Tour, making it the highest-ranked Central Coast winery tour in the poll. https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/local-winery-ranks-no-2-in-national-tour-poll/223776/ TROUBLEMAKER NOW COMES IN A BOX Hope Family Wines has introduced 1.5-liter wine-in-box versions of Troublemaker Red and Troublemaker White, extending one of Paso’s most recognizable brands into a format built for pools, tailgates, weekends and places where glass bottles are not exactly invited. https://www.winebusiness.com/news/article/322998 🧰 STRAUSS HARVEST CHECK-IN Chris Eberle, Eberle Winery Adam catches up with Chris during harvest to hear how STRAUSS workwear performs when it actually has to deal with cellar floors, vineyards, long days and the messier side of making wine. Eberle Winery: https://www.eberlewinery.com/ 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 📲 Where Wine Takes You now has its own Instagram. Follow us at @wherewinetakesyou for new episodes, behind-the-scenes pours, guest highlights, and more from Paso wine country. 🎙️ RECORDED AT SLO CAL STUDIOS Recorded at SLO CAL Studios, San Luis Obispo County, California. SLO CAL — where the wine is world-class, the people are real, and life is too beautiful to rush. For turns well taken: https://slocal.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow Love Where Wine Takes You? Leave a review, subscribe, and share it with a fellow wine (or Paso) lover. 🎙️ Credits Executive Producer: Joel Peterson + Paso Wine Associate Producer: Krista Smith Recorded, edited, hosted by Adam Montiel Follow Adam: @AdamOnTheAir Explore all things Adam: AdamMontiel.com Listen to Adam’s other shows: Up + Adam (daily) and The Pour (wine & more, travel, culture) Learn more, connect, or say hey at AdamMontiel.com/connect 🎵 Original music by Moonshiner Collective 📱 Download the Paso Wine App 🍷 Plan your trip at PasoWine.com and follow @PasoWine 🎯 Plan your next Paso Robles getaway at travelpaso.com 🎧 Subscribe & Follow If you love Where Wine Takes You, make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with your favorite wine or Paso lover.  ©2026 Where Wine Takes You, All Rights Reserved.