Nadeau Family Vintners is an estate microwinery located in the Santa Lucia Mountains four miles west of Paso Robles, is the result of years of effort by Robert Nadeau and his wife, Patrice. Together they renovated a tiny barn, transforming it into an efficient, well-equipped micro-winery. Old-world styled vineyards have been planted on the slopes surrounding the building…most of which is dedicated to dry-farmed, head-trained Zinfandel, with an acre or so devoted to Grenache Noir and Petite Sirah. At nearly 2000 feet in elevation, the property is generally above the morning fog and usually receives about twice the rainfall seen below in Paso Robles (Elev.: 960’)

Our tiny winery produces small lots of genuinely hand-crafted wines, most of which are only available at the tasting room or through our wine club, The Critical Masses. Specializing in huge, mountain-grown Zinfandel wines, and the more austere red Rhone Varietals, when you visit us be ready for our full-blown red wines— generous in varietal character and gout de terroir along with our fruit-driven Rhone whites, Viognier and Roussanne.

Furthermore, we’re not afraid to be mavericks here, so each vintage we source a small lot of an unusual variety which may be new to many wine enthusiasts...a Nebbiolo one year, a Petite Sirah the next...just a barrel or two of something different (it keeps us humble.)

Our tasting room is also our laboratory, so if you’re into Pyrex and periodic tables, you’ll feel especially comfortable here.