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

Leon Tackitt

History

Back in the 1970s, my grandfather planted about 29 Gewürztraminer vines that he had brought from Germany. He kept his craft to home winemaking, and, being just a youngster, I was only told that he made pretty good wine. With my retirement from a 28-year career in the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal community coming into view, my wife and I saw our modest family vineyard as a wonderful possibility. In the summer of 1998, Cindy and I decided to take what my grandfather had started to the next level, and Tackitt Family Vineyards began.

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!

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Hours

12:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M Friday – Sunday

Address

6640 Von Dollen Road
San Miguel, California 93451
United States

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