About High Camp Wines
High Camp Wines takes its name from mountaineering — the high camp, the elevated base established before the final summit push, where the air is thin and the conditions are severe and the reward for getting there is a perspective unavailable at lower altitudes. Applied to wine, the high camp philosophy means: grow grapes in the most challenging elevated terrain, where the vines are stressed and the fruit is concentrated, and the wines reflect the altitude rather than comfortable valley-floor conditions.
The Adelaida District estate produces Grenache and Zinfandel from elevated west-side Paso Robles calcareous limestone soils — the high-camp terrain of the Paso Robles wine world, where elevation and limestone combine to produce the appellation's most structured and mineral wines.
The appointment-only format maintains the high-camp metaphor's seriousness: you have to make the effort to get there, and what you find is worth the climb.