About Burning Bench Cellars
Burning Bench Cellars is named for the burning bench — the sun-exposed benchland on the El Pomar District estate where afternoon heat radiates off the calcareous limestone with particular intensity, warming the vine rows from above and below simultaneously. The bench terrain is specific: a flat elevated platform where drainage is perfect and sun exposure is maximum, the Paso Robles equivalent of the Rutherford Bench but in a warmer, calcareous context.
The Union Road estate produces Grenache, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Petite Sirah from the burning bench vineyards with the heat-and-concentration philosophy the name declares. Maximum solar exposure and calcareous limestone drainage combine to produce fruit of intense character that the burning bench name honestly describes.
The daily walk-in experience is dog-friendly, picnic-welcoming, and family-hospitable.