Écluse Wines — Attraction in California

Really dissapointing experience here about two weeks ago. We frequent Paso and decided to try Ecluse as we heard great things about their wine. The hostess was great and super nice but that was all that was good about our experience. Every single pourer there was so rude to us. I realized me and my friend were the youngest in the room and I think that may have been the issue, they didn’t see us as potential customers at all. The pourer would come by and pour the tasting (pouring way less than a normal tasting size) and then just walk away, no explanation of the wine or anything. We really couldn’t enjoy the wine or learn anything about the winery. To top it off we walked away with no bottles because our experience was so bad we couldn’t bring ourselves to buy anything, typically we buy 4-6 bottles per winery when we’re visiting. I’m sad they took our age for granted and treated us as if we didn’t know wine or have the money to buy anything. Really was a shame for such a pretty and well...

1st stop on our wine tour was Ecluse Wines. Established in 1996, they've grown into a lovely winery estate that has a robust choice of wine varietals to choose from. My favorite was their Zinfandel and a Cab/Malbec blend. They were very generous with their tastings, with a few off menu items, or library wines, to taste. The kicker for me was the 18 month aged tapped barrel tasting of one of their wines. This gave you a taste of how the wine is maturing in the barrel and the direction the wine is going in its fermentation! Wow all the way around. I recommend you go for a tasting, as I believe its a great experience.

In closing, you'll find the estate is gorgeous, with its wide and lustrous rolling hills of vines. The staff is well versed in wines and the owner is a great story teller. Check them out! ...

We visited about 7 wineries on our Paso wine tour. Ecluse was definitely the most personal experience. Someone took us through each of the wines, gave us a little taster of 2 of the future wines that are currently stull aging. Explained to us the effect the difference the types of wood of the barrel makes on the wine, etc etc.

The wine itself was lovely. Not the best we tasted of the day, but there was a nice range of prices which helped and best of all wine tasting was FREE!!

I would actually give this a 4.5 star as the wine wasnt the best of the day, but the experience was well...