Tackitt Family Vineyards
About
Tackitt Family Vineyards is a small family-owned winery that specializes in handcrafted, premium wines. Please come out and talk with the winemaker, enjoy the wines, and just relax in our open country.
Location Description
Located twelve miles east of Paso Robles, CA.
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Winemaker
History
We had our first crush, using only the most basic equipment: a press borrowed from our friend, Mike Curran, and a 55 gallon plastic drum that my grandparents had used for primary fermentation. With the invaluable help of my family, (but having no idea what we were doing), we started picking the grapes, destemming the clusters by hand, and crushing the grapes as we went. It was exhausting work that forced us to leave the large majority of the vineyard’s grapes hanging on the vines. That year we only produced about 30 gallons of juice. In 2001, with more vines in the vineyard, the addition of crucial equipment, and a lot of mentoring from Dr. Tom Morgan, (owner and winemaker of Casa de Caballos winery) we were able to pick over 1,000 pounds of grapes that yielded 81 gallons of juice and some pretty fine wine!