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News, stories, and updates from Sixmilebridge.

Spring 2023

As we spring into a new season, it’s incredible to see the vineyard coming to life. We haven’t drowned in Paso quite yet, although the team agrees…we came close. We didn’t want to change the world, but one of these days, we did want to start a winery. So we did. Ten years ago. A decade.…

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Budding Botanist

If you have visited our tasting room, particularly in the Spring, you know we have an abundance of different trees, flora and fauna. In fact, we have over 60 different species on the property. And no, we aren’t counting the coyote, ground squirrels, or birds of prey in that number. Can you name them all?…

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Dumping grapes into picking bin

Harvest 2022

The Sixmilebridge estate had a good growing season through August. While we did not get much rainfall in January through March, our temperatures did not spike much either on the low end or high end. We had comparatively warmer weather than usual, which did give us the second earliest start of our seven harvests, 2016-2022.…

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Summer 2022

Summer in Paso Robles means hot days, cool nights, and fruit development in the vineyards! Closing out 2021, we were experiencing one of the wettest winters in recent memory. With this great start to our rainy season, hopes were high. But in the first quarter of 2022, if John Fogarty was asking “have you ever…

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Swirl and Sip

Do you see folks effortlessly swirling their wine and seemingly paying no attention to the glass? Do you think they are just showing off? Maybe you try imitating them, but aren’t really sure why they and you are swirling your glasses.

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Spring 2022

Spring has sprung for the seventh time at Sixmilebridge! As we usher in the new season, the estate teems with life. Seen from a distance, a vineyard looks much the same year after year. Upon closer inspection, growth is evident when measuring the circumference of the trunk. Pruning wrapped up by mid-February. Our vineyard crew…

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Wine Geese of Ireland

Did you know the Irish invented the first guided missile, called the Brennan torpedo after its inventor, Louis Brennan? Btw, Oscar Wilde certainly fired a few guided missiles with the tip of his pen. Yet when it comes to wine, I don’t think Ireland readily comes to mind. But maybe it should…

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