About Donatoni Winery
Donatoni Winery is Hank Donatoni's personal estate — his Italian-heritage winemaker surname on one of Paso Robles' most historically founding wine estates, established in 1981 before the appellation had national recognition, before Paso Robles had a critical reputation, when the Salinas Valley was better known for lettuce than for Cabernet.
Hank Donatoni's longevity in Paso Robles winemaking — four decades of continuous production under his own name — represents the kind of committed, unhurried relationship with a specific wine region that the wine world's most historically significant estates have built. The Donatoni name on a 1981 Paso Robles estate is a timeline of commitment: this winery predates most of the appellation's current estates by decades.
The appointment-only format keeps the historic perspective present: every visit to Donatoni is a conversation with Paso Robles wine history from one of its actual founders.