Clayhouse Wines at-a-glance: • Paso Robles AVA: ideal for growing red varieties—long growing season and hang time results in fully mature fruit • Current offerings: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Syrah and Adobe Red Blend • Red Cedar Vineyard: Certified sustainably farmed—located entirely in Paso Robles AVA and parts of newly designated sub-AVAs, San Juan Creek and Paso Robles Estrella • Winemaker Blake Kuhn: Native Californian and passionate environmentalist (See reverse for wine descriptions and tasting notes)
Paso Robles AVA Cedar Vineyard. The Clayhouse estate pesticides in controlling vineyard pests. Paso Robles, located on California’s Red Cedar Vineyard is located 15 miles Central Coast, is sometimes known as east of Paso Robles, entirely within the Winemaker Blake Kuhn “cowboy wine country” in recognition Paso Robles AVA. Sections of the A native Californian, Blake graduated of its western heritage. Winemakers are vineyard are within two of the recently in 1995 from UC Santa Barbara with a transforming the region into a world- approved sub-AVAs: San Juan Creek and degree in biology and environmental class wine destination—especially for Paso Robles Estrella District. sciences and spent three years traveling red wines. Paso Robles means “Pass of the world as a field biologist, studying the Oaks” in Spanish, for the massive Certified Sustainable insects, parasites and wolves. The Red Cedar vineyard is sustainably red oaks gracing the landscape. farmed and certified by the California His interest in wine was stoked during Due to cool nights, warm days, and Sustainably Winegrowing Alliance, a part-time job as a waiter at Santa typically late rains, vines tend to have a recognized for conserving limited natural Barbara’s Citronelle restaurant, leading longer growing season and grapes have resources, enhancing environmental him to study at UC Davis and beginning more hang time compared to other wine quality and contributing economically as a grape sampler in the vineyard. regions, resulting in fully mature fruit and socially to the community. Blake worked his way up to lab tech, then whose acid chemistry is kept in balance assistant winemaker, and, ultimately, More than 600 owl boxes stand on through the area’s overnight cooling. senior winemaker and general manager tall poles and in oak trees throughout for R.H. Phillips/Toasted Head. Clayhouse Estate/Red Cedar Vineyard Red Cedar Vineyard. By using this as Both Clayhouse and Adobe are named part of an Integrated Pest Management Blake became Clayhouse winemaker for the 1840s adobe house on Red program we eliminate the use of in 2011.
[email protected] Clayhouse Wines Clayhouse Wines Clayhouse Wines Adobe 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 Syrah 2015 Malbec 2012 Red Paso Robles Paso Robles Paso Robles Paso Robles Deep purple / dark red color. Deep purple garnet color with Deep vibrant purple/black Dark black cherry, ripe Aromas of dark Bing cherries aromas of violets, color. Aromas of violets, blackberry and cocoa aromas. and black currants, with liquorice, cloves and blackber- woodsy spice, orange zest, Soft sweet jammy strawberry hints of cedar and sweet ry. Wine has medium weight sweet fennel, vanilla, and and black fruit flavors vanilla. The wine is rich and and smooth rounded tannins black cherry fruit. The wine combine in the mouth in this full-bodied. It has sweet black to compliment the juicy sweet has good mid-palate weight complex blend of fruit cherry and ripe plum fruit ripe raspberry and blackberry with ripe plum and fresh flavors. Tannins are soft and flavors with licorice under- fruit with fresh anise under- loganberry fruit flavors. This rounded with a rich mouth- tones. Tannins are rounded tones. The wine finishes with dry red wine has a sweet fruit feel and warm toasty vanilla and smooth with a warm lightly smoky spice and a finish with good length, laced finish. This wine is toasty finish. lingering vanilla warmth. chewy tannins and lightly a reliable Jack of all trades, roasted notes. Our Malbec made for cheeses, meat Varietal Composition: Varietal Composition: grapes provide good acidity, and red sauce based pastas, 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 86% Syrah (clone 174, 300, bringing a juiciness that pairs barbecue, pizza or just sipping 10% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec 877 and Estrella), 12% Petite well with cured meats and with friends. Sirah, 2% Viognier specialty cheeses as well as Varietal Composition: simply prepared steak. 34% Zinfandel, 39% Petite Varietal Composition: Sirah, 12% Cabernet 92% Malbec, 4% Tannat, Sauvignon, 10% Syrah, 4% Petite Sirah 3% Tempranillo, 2% Malbec