About Garretson Wine Company
Garretson Wine Company is Mat Garretson's personal Rhône variety estate — his English-heritage winemaker surname on a Paso Robles program that helped define what California Rhône winemaking could be. Mat Garretson was a founding voice of the Rhône Rangers, the California winemaker collective that championed Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Viognier, and other Rhône varieties at a time when California wine culture was dominated by Cabernet and Chardonnay.
The estate produces Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, and Viognier from Paso Robles and broader Central Coast vineyard sources with the Rhône variety conviction that the surname-eponymous naming declares. Mat Garretson's advocacy for these varieties — his winemaking, his writing, his founding involvement in the Rhône Rangers — makes his personal label one of California's most historically important Rhône variety statements.