Allegretto Vineyards and Wines
| Allegretto Vineyards and Wines | |
| Contact Info | |
| Address: | 2700 Buena Vista Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446 |
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| Website: | https://www.allegrettowines.com/ |
| Phone: | (805) 369-2526 |
| Email: | info@allegrettowines.com |
| Wine Details | |
| Price Point: | $$$ |
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| Amenities | |
| Sustainable: | Unknown |
| Pet Friendly: | Unknown |
| Food: | Unknown |
| Picnic Area: | Unknown |
| Family Friendly: | Unknown |
| Group Friendly: | Unknown |
| Appointment Only: | Unknown |
| Tours: | Unknown |
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| Weddings: | Unknown |
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Our Story
On a trip to Paso Robles fifteen years ago, Douglas Ayres was awed by the pastoral beauty of the land, the warmth of the region’s people and the promising wine region. While later traveling through some of the most celebrated wine and cultural areas of the world, the memory of Paso Robles inspired him to return with a vision of owning vineyards, making world-class wine and developing a destination driven wine country resort.
The realization of his dream began with the purchase of seventeen-acre of premium Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in Paso Robles’ famed Willow Creek District, followed by the purchase of a twenty-acre pasture land where he planted eight-acres of vines with Viognier, Vermentino, Malbec, Tannat and Cabernet Sauvignon prior to developing the resort. Douglas and award-winning winemaker Alan Kinne guide hand-picking of the vineyards hugging the picturesque Allegretto Vineyard Resort estate and Willow Creek Vineyard.
The wines are currently available online or through the Club Allegretto, and at the Resort’s acclaimed eatery, Cello Ristorante & Bar.
Experience award winning estate wines in Paso Robles at the Allegretto Tasting Room
The Allegretto Tasting Room offers a unique opportunity to sample some of the region’s best award-winning wines. Both estate and single vineyard wines are available from the Allegretto vineyards that surround the tasting room and the nearby Willow Creek District Wine tasting at Allegreto Tasting room gets you a fresh glass after each tasting and explanations about the wine. Purchase at least two bottles and the tasting fee is waived. Food and wine by the bottle are available in the family-friendly courtyard. The wine tasting list includes the gold medal winning 2013 and the 2014 single vineyard cabernet sauvignon, both from the Willow Creek Vineyard. The tasting room is also the place to experience a unique “flavor balancing” experience that adds a completely new view to wine and food pairings. The flavor balancing seminar was brought to Allegretto by John Stallcup, the Director of Wine Hospitality. John, the former Marketing VP for the wine group also co-founded the Napa Seasoning Company with Tim Hanni, MW, one of the originators of Flavor Balancing as well as being the first American to pass the Master of Wine Exam and the inventor of the Progressive Wine List. Flavor balancing has been adopted by the Wine and Spirits Education Trust not to mention a growing group of chefs, including Allegretto’s Chef Eric Olson, Jeremiah Tower, Michel Trama in Bordeaux, France, and Sarah Scott in the Napa Valley. Flavor balancing is a technique to learning to drink the wines one prefers with the food one likes to eat. Yes! White wine with steak! And here is how it’s done!
Flavor balancing—pairing wine with the diner
Because humans adapt to any sensation of sound, sight, hearing, touch, aroma or taste we can experience negative adaptations. The easiest way to understand a negative adaptation for tasting food is to brush your teeth and then drink orange juice. You experience only the bitterness of the orange juice because your taste adapted to the sweetness and it disappears to your sense of taste. When you “flavor balance” you avoid negative adaptations and accentuate positive ones. By adjusting the acid, salt, savory (umami) and bitterness levels, while avoiding sugar in entrees and sides, chefs create a balance that allows wine to work perfectly with a dish, regardless of the wine selection. Flavor balancing is the basis of many foods in wine cultures like Italy, which serves lemon with its famed Steak Florentine. It also works with cuisines that are popularly considered more difficult to pair with wines, like Thai, Chinese, and Indian. To experience flavor balancing at the Allegretto Tasting Room, first call ahead to schedule the time. You and your guests will have personal attention while engaging in the hands-on exercise of balancing the five primary tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami. By balancing the primary tastes in the food you avoid negative adaptations, enhance positive adaptations and thereby enhance the experience of food and wine. Guests will also learn about negative and positive adaptations, how to avoid them as well as the difference between flavor and taste. You will learn how to pair wine with the diner, not the dinner.
