My first guest this week is Costoro Cellars proprietor Niels Udsen.  You learn all about this award winning, Organic and SIP certified sustainable winery in Paso Robles.  I’ll also be tasting four of the Estate wines during my Saturday evening Face Book Live Virtual Tasting at 6:00 p.m.

The hus­band and wife team of Niels and Bim­mer Udsen estab­lished Cas­toro Cel­lars in 1983
with the goal of pro­duc­ing world-class wines from Paso Rob­les-appel­la­tion grapes. Niels,
born and raised in Ven­tu­ra, Cal­i­for­nia, got start­ed in the Paso Rob­les wine busi­ness while
study­ing Agribusi­ness at Cal­i­for­nia Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty, San Luis Obis­po. Even­tu­al­ly,
His love of pro­duc­tion and wines led him and Bim­mer to estab­lish their own win­ery in the area.

Cas­toro Cel­lars has grown to what it is today by a series of events that Niels and Bim­mer Udsen
call the ​‘back­wards approach.’ The Udsen’s first made and sold the wine, then pur­chased their
own equip­ment, the win­ery, the tast­ing room, and then began pur­chas­ing and plant­i­ng vineyards.
Castoro’s tast­ing room is in Tem­ple­ton off scenic High­way 46 West and the wine­mak­ing facil­i­ty
is locat­ed on the East Side of Paso Rob­les in San Miguel. Both facil­i­ties opened in 1990.

With the help of Niels’ men­tor and Cas­toro Cellar’s wine­mak­er,
Tom Myers, the Udsen’s have gone from mak­ing a few bar­rels
of wine for fam­i­ly and friends in a rent­ed cor­ner of some­one
else’s win­ery to devel­op­ing a cus­tom-crush oper­a­tion and a
30 – 40k case enter­prise for Cas­toro Cellars.

Cas­toro Cel­lars cur­rent­ly has over 1,400 acres of Estate vine­yards,
which are cer­ti­fied organ­ic by CCOF
and all the vine­yards are SIP Cer­ti­fied.  www.castorocellars.com

Good Life Guy’s Virtual Wine Tasting – Aug 29, 6:00 p.m. Central
|Face Book LIVE – 
A Selection of Costoro Cellars Wines

These wines are available at Jacob Liquor on North Rock Road.
Outside of Kansas you may want to call your wine merchant to check availability!
Grab the wines and join the FUN

  • 2018 Castoro Cellars Estate Sauvignon Blanc
  • 2018 Castoro Cellars Estate Chardonnay 
  • 2018 Castoro Cellars Estate Zinfandel
  • 2018 Castoro Cellars Estate Cabernet

Downloads:
Castoro Tasting Guide
FB Live tips   Go here to join the party:  Guy’s Facebook Page

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