As we were looking up wineries to tour we noticed the Eberle Wineries was one of the oldest in the area and had a Cave Tour… were IN!

The people at Eberle know their marketing. We went in and was greeted cordially. We were asked if we had reservations, we told them we did not.

Now if you think you are going to make reservations once you get to Paso realize most are full on weekends and most don’t open or answer their phone before 11 AM. But Eberle has a great solution. They have a beautiful deck with an epic view where they will put you IF you have a reservation. OR a tasting bar if you do NOT have a reservation, we were happy to drink wine at the tasting bar.

The wines at Eberle were good. We had an exceptional Eberle wine at the restaurant that night. The tasting was $25 no cost if you buy $40 of wine. Which is easy to do with most vineyard wines costing $60 and up. 

Cave Tour

If you leave Paso without going on the Eberle Cave tour you did not see some of the best. The Eberle Cave tour is very informational and free.

It seems years ago Mr Eberle decided since much of Europe ages their wines in caves, so should them. So he went to the County Seat San Luis Obisbo and applied for a Cave digging permit. It seems no one had ever done that, so he was denied.

Never one to give up he sent to Sacramento and spent $25 and bought a Mining Permit and they started mining for wine. They STILL have NOT found any yet, but they haven’t given up.

The caves are about 25’ round and full of oak aging barrels. The dirt that was MINED was used to make their parking lot. There is a lone Oak shade tree in their parking lot that’s about 5’ below the parking lot base… That’s the amount of dirt removed for the caves.  

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