About L'Aventure Winery
L'Aventure Winery is the most intellectually boundary-crossing and French-renegade-conviction Paso Robles luxury wine program. Stephan Asseo trained in Bordeaux and produced wine in Saint-Émilion before growing frustrated with appellation rules preventing him from blending Syrah into his Cabernet-based wines. He left France for California specifically because Paso Robles's absence of blending restrictions allowed him to pursue the most adventurous luxury Cabernet-Syrah blend program available to any winemaker on earth.
The L'Aventure Estate Cuvée — a Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Petit Verdot blend that no French appellation would permit — has earned Wine Advocate scores of 96–99 points across multiple vintages, placing it among the most critically perfect and most intellectually ambitious luxury California wines. Optimus and Côte à Côte express different aspects of Asseo's French-renegade and California-freedom-celebrating blending philosophy.
For collectors who want the most intellectually boundary-crossing and personally French-Bordeaux-refugee-California-freedom-celebrating luxury Paso Robles appointment — where Stephan Asseo's accumulated Bordeaux expertise meets unrestricted California luxury blending freedom — L'Aventure delivers the most critically acclaimed and most personally adventurous west-side Willow Creek District luxury experience.