Paso Robles wines are some of the best in the world and there are many wonderful options for holiday parties, meals and even gifts. Luckily there is no shortage of fantastic white wines in Paso Robles. We received so many tasty white wines that we created a separate list for recommended Rhone-style white wines, sparkling wines and rosé wines. Here are the additional white wines we would like to recommend to you.
Best Paso Robles white wines for the holidays
Bianchi 2013 Chardonnay – $10
Excellent value for a delightful white wine. It has tropical and citrus fruit flavors with a rich and buttery mouthfeel from sur lies aging and malolactic fermentation.
Broken Earth Winery Vermentino 2015 – $24
This Italian-style white wine offers aromas of pear and honeydew melon with flavors of stone fruit.
Burbank Ranch 2014 Sauvignon Blanc – $29
This is estate-grown, light wine starts with orange blossom aromas and delivers bright flavors of apple, minerals, and white peach. It has balanced acidity. It will pair well with a selection of cheeses and meats.
LaZarre Wines 2014 Chardonnay – $22
This is Adam LaZarre’s inaugural vintage chardonnay from the Runway Vineyard in Santa Maria. This wine is 100-percent barrel fermented and full of classic lush chardonnay flavors like creamy mango, peach and honeysuckle. It will make a fantastic accompaniment to any holiday party.
Michael Gill Cellars 2014 Vermentino – $40
This Italian varietal reveals an emerald straw color and leads with nutty aromas of lemon creme brûlée. It has a fruity, medium-bodied mouthfeel. It recently won two gold medals at international wine competitions. It will pair well with any holiday meal.
Pomar Junction 2015 Sauvignon Blanc – $28
This light white wine offers classic grassy aromas and flavors with hints of lime, green apple, and a touch of peach. It’s a great wine to start your holiday party.
Riverstar 2015 Riesling – $22
Not a typical riesling. This wine is delightfully dry, not sweet. It has notable acidity, with a fruity and floral bouquet. This wine will pair well with appetizers or lighter fare.
Robert Hall 2015 Cavern Select Chardonnay – $28
This a golden straw-colored, full-bodied wine. It’s a rich and buttery chardonnay. It offers notes of pineapple and ripe peaches. It has a long finish with flavors of toasted oak and fall spices. This bold white can carry your through your whole turkey dinner from salad to pumpkin pie.
Sextant 2015 Central Coast Chardonnay – $16
An excellent value for a solid chardonnay. The wine was fermented on 85-percent stainless steel and 15-percent neutral French oak barrels/It offers a vibrant nose of vanilla and mango. It tastes like ripe pineapple and tart apple with balanced acidity.
Tackitt Family Vineyards Gewurtraminer 2015 – $23
This is a balanced and not so sweet Gewurztraminer. It’s signature wine of Leon Tackitt. A fruity, spicy wine with hints of crisp pear and a smooth finish. This varietal is a holiday classic and great for any holiday party.
Top sparkling wines for the holidays
Here are our sparkling wine recommendations. Champagne has always been a popular choice for kicking off a holiday party or toasting to the new year. California’s Champagne-style sparkling wines make for excellent choices. From the several sparkling wines submitted, here are the ones we recommend. They are in alphabetical order. Serve them chilled.
Bianchi Signature Selection Sparkling Wine – $18
Bianchi’s California Champagne is a lively and fruity style bubbly brut that is good for everyday enjoyment or that special soirée. It’s a non-vintage sparkling with 1-percent alcohol. It’s a perfect treat for the holidays.
Clavo Corazon – $40
The is a delightful 100-percent grenache blanc made in the “método tradicional.” The nose offers freshly shaved lemon zest with recently picked green apples, hints of toasted Brioche displays complexity. On the palate green apples lead the way into what becomes a complex array of flavor.
Laetitia Brut Cuvée – $25
This non-vintage effervescent sparkling wine is light and easy to drink. Tiny bubbles and a crisp finish make this sparkling a real crowd pleaser. Will pair well with a dessert or a fruit and cheese course.
Pomar Junction Sparkling White – $25
This Méthode Champenoise brut is made from 60-percent chardonnay, and 40-percent pinot noir grapes. This non-vintage wine is not sweet, nor is it dry, but rather is very well balanced with a round finish. Notes of citrus, grapefruit, and a uniquely light effervescence makes this sparkling a perfect match to a light meal pairing or a celebratory toast.
Best Paso Robles rosé wines for the holidays
Rosé has come along way from the white zinfandel I remember my relatives drinking at family get-togethers. Today’s Paso Robles’ rosés are sophisticated and delicious. These Paso Robles rosé wines will pair well with lighter faire, appetizers like prosciutto-wrapped melon, smoked salmon and deviled eggs. They will also go well with baked ham, pork tenderloin and white meat of roasted turkey. For all the holiday chefs out there, consider enjoying rosé wines yourself as your prepare holiday meals. Remember to serve them chilled. Enjoy!
Broken Earth Winery Grenache Rosé 2014 – $9.90
This wine has an array of delicate red berry fruit characters that flow through the palate and meld beautifully with the balancing bright acidity. Skin contact was used in fermentation to add a hint of firmness to the palate so the wine finishes clean in your mouth.
Burbank Ranch 2014 Zinfandel Rosé – $29
It might be nicknamed “Summer Dreams,” but this wine has lots to offer for the holiday season. The light rosé offers hints strawberry, raspberry and watermelon.
Circle B Vineyard Rosé de Garnacha – $24
This grenache-based rosé is made by Steve and Clara Baker at one of Paso Robles’ newer wineries, Circle B Vineyard. The wine has floral and citrus notes with light cranberry flavors, making it a perfect pair for a holiday meal. It will go well with appetizers and even turkey and fixin’s.
HammerSky Rosé – $34
This is not your mom’s white zinfandel. This non-vintage zinfandel rosé is soft and dry with subtle flavors of strawberry short cake, raspberry and watermelon. It’s a clean and delicious unfiltered wine. It’s a great wine to start a holiday party.
Pomar Junction Vineyard 2015 Syrah Rose – $20
This delightful rosé delivers flavors of pink cherries and strawberries. It’s dry, but very approachable. It’s perfect to drink on its own or serve at a holiday brunch.
Robert Hall Rosé de Robles 2015 – $14
A zesty rose with a light raspberry color and refreshing flavors of of berries and citrus. It’s a blend of syrah, grenache, cinsaut, mourvèdre and counoise. It recently won a double gold medal at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition. This a great wine to start a holiday party.
Shale Oak 2015 Rosé – $24
Grenache grapes take the lead in this dry rosé wine. It was held on the skins for 24 hours to achieve a light salmon color. Smell aromas of strawberry cream on the nose, and taste a dry finish with a little minerality. Its a great party starter with a low 12.2-percent alcohol.
Tackitt Family Vineyards Grenache Rosé – $22
A berry-hued wine with aromas of strawberry and rhubarb. It has a vibrant mouthfeel and flavors of apple blossoms and citrus zest.
Victor Hugo Les Mis 2015 Estate Rosé – $15
This rosé has a mild sweetness. It’s smooth with no dry ending, while still having a bright tang. It will pair well with a cool chicken salad and other light picnic foods.
Vina Robles 2015 Roseum – $16
This pink wine is packed with flavor and a great value. Its pressed from syrah grapes of the Paso Robles eastside’s Huerhuero Vineyard. It will pair well with quail, chicken, turkey and appetizers.
Best Rhone-style white wines for the holidays
We received so many excellent white wines that we decided to showcase the Rhone-style white wines in one story and share the other top white wines in another installment of our best holiday wines series.
From the dozens of wines submitted, below are the best Rhone-style white wines we recommend. They are in alphabetical order. Serve them chilled.
Eberle Winery 2015 ‘Mill Road Vineyard’ Viognier – $26
This wine has vibrant flavors of white peaches, melon and lemon zest with a clean finish. It will pair well with appetizers, pasta and seafood.
Four Lanterns Winery Lamplight 2015 Viognier – $28
This wine has great balance, minerality, and slight notes of pear and stone fruit. It has a wonderful round mouth feel. It would be perfect for spicy foods, poultry or fish.
Hearthstone 2013 Roussanne – $28
This delightful wine offers toasted buttered cream notes with accents of cinnamon and pear with a lingering finish. It’s a great holiday aperitif.
Michael Gill Cellars 2013 Viognier – $38
This delightful wine shows a light straw color and leads with aromas of peaches and dried apricot. It is fruity and medium-bodied. It recently won two gold medals at international wine competitions. It will pair well with any holiday meal.
Midnight Cellars 2015 Aurora – $29
This reserve Rhone-style white wine is 25-percent viognier, 25-percent grenache blanc, 25-roussanne, and 25-percent Marsanne. It displays floral aromas of honeysuckle, peach and mango. The palate is light and refreshing with a bright acidity that supplements its flavors of pineapple, stone fruits and a hint of coconut.
Nadeau Family Vintners 2015 Viognier – $22
This wine offers floral and fruity notes with honey flavors and a touch of minerality. It is delicious and approachable. It’s a good wine to pair with appetizers at a holiday meal.
Peachy Canyon 2014 Concrete Blanc – 25
It’s an excellent example of acid and richness in balance: this wine has a luxuriously creamy mouthfeel combined with vibrant acidity that tastes like Meyer lemon and white nectarine.
Pomar Junction 2015 Viognier – $28
This is a dry, crisp viognier with a tropical and floral nose. It is a fruit forward viognier exhibiting lime and pear flavors on the palate, with a lingering peach and honeysuckle finish. This wine pairs perfectly with lighter fair and seafood.
San Simeon Viognier 2015 – $19
This wine is a clear straw green color. It offers delicate, toasty, tropical aromas of pineapple and apricot. It has flavors of coconut macaroon, dried mango, and sweet and peppery spices. It finishes with moderate oak.
Seven Angels Cellars 2014 Unorthodox – $22
This Rhone-style white blend is mostly grenache blanc with viognier, picpoul blanc and marsanne, It won a silver medal at the 2016 San Francisco International Wine Competition. It has a light straw color, citrus and buttery notes, tart Asian pear flavors with a juicy finish. It would compliment holiday deserts like pumpkin pie and lemon bars.
Shale Oak 2014 Grenache Blanc – $38
This delicious wine has tart, green apple flavors. A good cooking wine – and by that we mean you should drink it while cooking. It’s also a great glass of wine with which to greet your guests at the door.
Summerwood Vin Blanc 2014 – $25
This Rhone-style wine is blend of roussanne and viognier from Hearthstone and Alta Colina Vineyards. It offers aromas of apricot and oranges. It has a soft mouthfeel with flavors of pears and citrus.
Treana Blanc 2014 – $30
A Central Coast blend of 45-percent viognier, 45-percent marsanne and 10-percent rousanne. It earned 92 points from Wine Enthusiast. It offers aromas of pineapple and orange with floral notes of honeysuckle and citrus blossom. It has a silky texture and stone fruit flavors. It’s a wonderful way to start your holidays.
Vina Robles White 4, 2015 – $16
Vina Robles proves a winery can deliver a solid wine at a reasonable price. This Paso Robles blend is mostly viognier, with sauvignon blanc, verdelho and vermentino. It has peach and pear flavors with a touch of sweetness.
Paso Robles wine recommendations
- Best local sparkling wines for the holidays
- Best local rosé wines for the holidays
- Best local white wines for the holidays
- Best local Rhone-style white wines for the holidays
- Best local pinot noir wines for the holidays
- Best local zinfandel and Italian-style wines for the holiday
- Best local cabernet sauvignon and Bordeaux-style wines for the holidays
- Best local Rhone-style red wines for the holidays
- Best local dessert wines for the holidays
