We tasted their award winning wines and enjoyed. They also have Hawaiian food. Very unusual I. The…read moremiddle of central California wine county. They could use another staff. Can get busy.

Love, love, loving this comfy wine tasting space, right in the heart of downtown Atascadero…read more Owners Ayako and Chris have created a fun space for enjoying their wine flights, or having a glass or bottle of their Rhone and/or Bordeaux varietals. We've been in for several tastings, sitting both inside or outside, and their staff is always fun and welcoming. And for us dog lovers, this dog-friendly space is always nice for a pet-fix. Their English Cream Golden Retrievers are also very welcoming and love to join in our conversations. Wine by the glass is also very nice, and have become a big fan of their Zinfandel, Grenache Blanc, Sparkling Rose, and Viognier.

I Hosted a in home wine tasting with D'amore and it far exceeded all expectations. Josh brought…read moreeverything needed from a table to glassware to wine to meat/cheese and great knowledge of all products! Josh was very accommodating for our group and made sure every person got the attention they wanted. Our group had varying knowledge on wine and each person left feeling they learned something new and useful going forward. We chose to have Josh pick out the wine for us and each wine was selected perfectly. I may have not liked each wine but hey that's what a tasting is for, now I know going forward! If you are considering having an at home wine tasting for your friends and or family I could not give D'amore more of a recommendation!

Excellent service, love the vibe and the wines are delicious. Our group of six really enjoyed it.read more

Oh man this place was a nice surprise! Went out with a…read morefriend while visiting and wanted to do some wine tasting. We walked in and were a little skeptical because the place looks more like an office setting than a wine tasting/selling room. We were pleasantly surprised tho and the wine was phenomenal! $10 for tasting but it's free if you buy a bottle. I needed up buying two! I first did the red tasting. There wasn't a single wine I didn't like and that's rare for me. I even tried two whites(not a big white wine fan) and I ended up waking away with a white. Our hose was one of the sons. I can't remember his name.... But if you're reading this I was the one who came in with the pregnant DD friend. He guided me through all the wines and how they're made. Even sampled one he's working on. Ended up buying a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. They also sell some chocolates. I purchased but I haven't tried them yet. 10/10. Can't wait to come back.

Came here for a taste. Wine was solid. Buckskin bill was my favorite along with the port. The port…read morewas one of the best Ive ever had. The tasting room so perfect. Very personalable experience. Wine pourer wad the owners son and he was really friendly and was great on the wine knowledge and recommendations. Definitely recommend check this place out. Very good value wines and also has some 10 year aged wines for $12 to $15.

~having had wine in many corners of the world, I can attest to the quality and standards of MEA…read moreWine. John has created a very solid line up of wine in Atascadero/Central Coast, that will bring you JOY!! The Viognier, Tempranillo and the Albarino were my favourites but there are almost 40 wines to chose from on the website. Very knowledgeable and a lot of fun!! Go Check It Out!!

MEA is an amazing small winery with an engaging winemaker. The wines range from traditional to…read moreinnovative. You will find a full spectrum of eclectic to old (new) favorites produce in his industrial setting. Although it might seem like he is punching up, he's really punching above his weight class. The wine maker, John, has a story to tell both his own and of his wines. This is his second career and he's making the most of it. We've been in twice, and we never leave without wine in hand. It's not necessarily our intention to go to the winery to pick up a bottle, but there's always something unexpected. This time it was his spin on tempranillo, which he'd be hard-pressed to tell was not from Spain if blindfolded. Visiting MEA is an experience worth having. The ones are great, the education you'll receive is welcome, and seeing another side of the wine business is worth your time. Enjoy.

This was our second visit to Fableist (which means something significant-- there are more wonderful…read morewineries in the Paso area than we will get to in a lifetime) -- lovely setting, attentive, knowledgeable, and engaging host, solid and unique reds. We look forward to reminiscing about our experience while we drink the unique pino that is everything a pino should be.

I've long wanted to visit The Fableist Wine tasting room in Paso. We came in early, midweek, and…read moretasted from the standard tasting menu -- approximately 5 wines. I really didn't care for any of them -- most of them were not the mainstream varietals - they were a bit too funky/ different for my tastes. I love the branding, but felt to make a connection here with the wines. Super cute tasting room full of the unique branding that makes this wine a fun wine. Next time, I'd come back and picnic under the trees and buy a few bottles of their standard wines for $25. I didn't really care for the funkier wines served in the wine tasting room. Perhaps that's me, perhaps you'll enjoy it.

HEY NOW, this is the place to make your next stop, visit, or vacation for some really nice wine…read more I truly love places like this. We have a few in the Bay Area and wine country, but this is what it is about. If you want to learn a thing or two about wines, relax and do some tastings, this is the place. Bella Luna in Templeton is what it is about. Make it your next venture. Adios..ciao...LA BELLA LUNA!

Great place. Family owned winery, genuine and no frou-frou. The owners are the pourers everyday…read moreexcept Sundays - that's family day. Stop here for some delicious wines and great company. Each bottle we tasted was excellent.

Heidi is a five-star host. Very knowledgeable, very personable and made us feel welcome. The…read moretasting menu it's pretty good, and we wound up purchasing a bit of wine.

Clesi wines was amazing! We had excellent service and conversation with Adrienne, one of the…read moreowners. The Italian wines are balanced and full of flavor. Highly recommend the Sagrantino, the Convivió, the Estate Cuvée and the amphora Aglianico. We loved this place and will be back. Also, the wine dogs give a wonderful welcome!

Atascadero Main Street hosts numerous events in the downtown area of Atascadero, near the Carlton…read moreHotel. Quarterly Art & Wine Tours, March, May, Sep, Dec, on Friday evening from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Buy a wristband & City wine glass at the booth set up in front of Bella Cose boutique on the corner of El Camino Real, in the block that the Carlton Hotel is located in. You will see it. Unlimited wine tasting & appetizers, & some deserts in many downtown shops. Art is displayed in some of them. Many wineries participate & provide the wine tasting. Some shops have 2 wineries posted inside. Sometimes there is live music. This event is really fun and keeps growing. They host other events as well, like Sept 12th, was Concert in the Creek, an outdoor stage was set up and for a small ticket price there were bands playing all afternoon/evening. Around the holidays there are many other events as well.

Visited the Ambyth tasting room located within Nature's Touch on Templeton's Main Street. Cute…read moreappearance from the outside seeing as it's connected to a nursery. Outdoor tasting area consisted of a few picnic tables surrounded by plants and string lights. Not a bad place to drink wine if you're not at the vineyard. Sadly, I quickly realized that biodynmic wines are not for me, nor were they for most of us in the group. A few of us ended up dumping multiple of the tastings. It was a cool idea to try a wine product that was as natural as it was, but there's a reason that sulfates are added into wine and that was learned here. The tasting menu had an orange wine on it which was pretty exciting, but still not enough to warrant a re-visit by me. Cool vibes and service, just not my glass of wine.

Local Serendipitous Take: Great local natural brews, olive oil, in a cute tasting room in a Natural…read moreFood store, run by a nice local family. One fine Saturday, after having finished shopping at the wonderful Templeton Farmers Market just a few blocks away, I decided at random to drive down Main St. to see if anything was interesting. Our eyes where caught by the pop-market & plants in front of this warehouse-like building and we stopped to look. As we literally wandered into the main shop past all the plants outside, I spied this interesting wood paneled nook with a full bar & bottles in the corner. It had a serene look and this nice lady greeted me. It turns out that she was one of the owners. I was curious about at first the olive oil and then when she pointed out their wines & ciders, I was even more interested. I tasted the oil & I think two brews. The Olive Oil was herbaceous & good, but I had already bought three Gold Award winning local EVOO's from local farms and another Templeton winner was at the Farmers Market. One can only use so much EVOO before it gets old. While they had bottled EVOO in a nice bottle with a cork, they also had a big tank of it, to fill your own bottle which I liked. While their brews tend to be on the dry side per the owner, there was one that was to my taste and I bought a bottle. During the conversation, I heard all kinds of nice things about organic, but since alcohol is inherently not that great for you, I only listened causally..until the term Biodynamic came up. I had no clue as to what it was, but it sounded healthy at the time. When I finally came home to look it up at home on Google, I found out that it was kind of a takeoff on pseudo-science, namely, the more well know Homeopathy. As far as I can tell, this was sort of the same thing, but for farming and first thought of in the 1920's, which was in a time when the older pseudoscience, Homeopathy [late 1800's] saw a resurgence in the US. Let us think that in these eras, we did not have a clue about alot of things, especially in medical science. In those days, if your equivalent of a PCP wanted to give you turpentine to drink and you then threw up, I am sure you would possibly latch onto basically magic potion with almost nothing or nothing in it. The placebo effect is naturally so strong that you can have lots of benefit from even blessed water, or even quite a few side effects, like nausea & vomiting. People are terrible test subjects even when the later rigorous formulation of double-blinded Placebo controlled studies became the standard. How do I know? I used to help run some of these studies on some blockbuster medications in Hawaii. Since Hawaii had all kinds of interesting cross-cultural themes, I also found out that the most popular Chemotherapy drug in Japan was sold at doctor's offices [where they made a profit] and it was a placebo....& there was nothing "Homeopathic" about it. It was a culturally specific thing that involved confidence in their doctor, that invoked a placebo response, but ultimately they still typically died from cancer all the same...except for rare spontaneous remissions which do happen regardless of treatment. Oddly enough, I used to buy wine from another vineyard that used crystals to enhance their crops. While I thought it another myth, they still made excellent tasting wine, and I did not have to join a cult to drink it. While the Biodynamic stuff and some other stuff on their website is IMHO rather out there, they do a very nice job of caring for what they do, and creating stuff that has less junk, that one does not need, or can have a reaction to Sulfites. On the other hand, some things can give one pause, like statements like they use natural yeast, and let things sit around for awhile.....or use Clay Amphoras sometimes or Oak Barrels at other times. As someone who is a retired science researcher & has a hobby of making DIY Cider, Probiotic Veges, Natto, and much more, I tend to be really careful with how I make stuff & have had all kinds of run ins with stuff which grows, where I do not want it to. The air contains countless spores or active bacteria, fungus, mold, viruses, etc...and quite a few times they decide to grow where I do not want them. In many cases, the short-term natural preservative is either the rampant growth of your culture or a byproduct like Lactic Acid....or to some degree, the yeast/alcohol mix itself. Longer preservation times involve more complex efforts like canning. In any case, if you want products that have less interventions and still feel comfortable with their techniques, it is worth a try. If you have health conditions that involve the GI or immune system, maybe consult an MD before using such products, since some may contain active cultures for all I know.

Kim Robson is the best. She presents a fresh and classy pitch for the companies products. We…read morereally enjoyed the wine tasting party. Kudos Kim! We will be buying more wine from you. Thanks.