After five years of selling wine exclusively to wine shops, restaurants and the few people who otherwise found out about our wine, we finally opened a tasting room. The tasting room is located at 4295 Union Road in Paso Robles within Rio Seco Winery. Rio Seco has been established for over 20 years was generous to allow Arndt Cellars the perfect location to meet customers and sell our wine.
We have been open since March 2019 and have enjoyed a lot of fun conversations with our guests. We hope you will visit us soon and let us know what you think.
Arndt Cellars recently won Best Of Class for our 2014 Merlot in the 2018 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. We are excited to pour this wine, along with our other award winning wines, at the public tasting on February 17. Click here for ticket information.
Our Dusi Zinfandel is now bottled and available! Benito Dusi Vineyards is one of the oldest in Paso Robles. It consists of 24 acres planted with Zinfandel vines that are almost 100 years old. They are planted in the "old world" style with a small amounts of Carignane, Petite Sirah, Grenache vines in the mix. The vineyard is run by 89-year-old Benito Dusi who actively manages the vineyard today. The vineyard is dry farmed, which means that it does not have drip irrigation. We are honored to know Benito Dusi and thankful that we are able to buy grapes from him. His vineyard is registered with the Historic Vineyard Society and his zinfandel is preserved as a Heritage Zinfandel Clone. The...
Winemaking has become a passion for us and, looking back on it, starting Arndt Cellars was almost inevitable. No doubt many of our good friends are now sighing an exasperated “finally!” as they read this.Don and I purchased property in Paso Robles in 2000 with an eye to the distant future towards retirement. At the time, we enjoyed a glass of wine with dinner on the weekends and went wine tasting in Santa Barbara, Temecula and an occasional trip up to Napa/Sonoma. After buying our property we of course spent more time in Paso Robles and learned about the robust but still growing wine industry of the region. We made some very good friends and were fortunate and thankful to...
