About Kukkula Winery
Kukkula Winery is the most personally Finnish-hill-naming-convention and biodynamically-calcareous-limestone-committed Paso Robles Rhône boutique. Kim and Sirkka Stodel — whose Finnish heritage led them to name their Adobe Road Paso Robles estate for the Finnish word for 'hill' (kukkula), the most directly topographically-Finnish-landscape-naming approach available to any Paso Robles boutique wine program — established their west-side calcareous limestone Willow Creek District estate in 2007 with a biodynamic farming conviction as individually Finnish-landscape-philosophically-committed as the estate naming declaration.
The biodynamic farming approach applied across all Kukkula Willow Creek District estate acres — CCOF certified and Demeter biodynamic across the most carefully calcareous-limestone-individually-identified estate blocks — reflects Kim and Sirkka Stodel's most personally Finnish-landscape-biodynamic-hill-naming and organic-conviction-west-side-Paso-Robles committed founding philosophy. The combination of Finnish cultural heritage, biodynamic farming conviction, and calcareous Willow Creek limestone produces Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre of individual mineral character.
Wine Advocate has recognized Kukkula's estate Grenache, Syrah, and Kukkula Red for the individual calcareous-limestone-mineral and biodynamically-certified character that the most personally Finnish-hill-naming-biodynamic and Stodel-family-conducted west-side Paso Robles Rhône boutique delivers.