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Paso Robles – the wines, part 2

Samantha Cole-Johnson 2022
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Thursday 19 October 2023
Vailia From of Desparada, winemaker Natalie Brown of Rococo, and winemaker Riley Roddick of Hubba.

Parsing the differences within this California AVA. For an overview, see Paso Robles – the wines, part 1. Above, winemakers Vailia From of Desparada, Natalie Brown of Rococo and Riley Roddick of Hubba, all of whom make use of Paso's sub-AVAs.

While I am a notorious doubter of the utility of AVAs, Paso Robles makes a good argument for them. As noted in yesterday’s Paso primer, this 247,668-ha (612,000-acres) AVA is so large and diverse that the wines from one end of the AVA to the other can end up bearing as much resemblance to each other as you...