About Linne Calodo
Linne Calodo takes its name from the rare limestone-riddled soil series of the Willow Creek District, and its founding is Paso Robles legend. In 1998 Matt Trevisan and his Cal Poly roommate Justin Smith, who would go on to found Saxum, began picking fruit from the Smith family's James Berry Vineyard and the Cherrys' dry-farmed 1970s Zinfandel, processing it after hours at Wild Horse Winery where Trevisan worked days, sometimes sleeping in his car in the vineyard. Smith left to launch Saxum in 2001; Trevisan and his wife Maureen built their own winery in 2002, planted the first estate vines in 2005, and added the 48-acre Stonethrower property in 2012.
The wines, Grenache, Syrah and Zinfandel-driven blends with names like Problem Child and Nemesis, helped ignite the modern Paso blend movement and put the region's Rhone bottlings in the international spotlight. Trevisan farms his estate with what he calls nature-positive practices, hand work, biodiversity and species coexistence in place of chemicals, and in 2024 the Trevisans purchased the historic 170-acre Cherry Vineyard ranch, settled in 1886, to preserve the tiny head-trained Zinfandel block that was Trevisan's first love as a winemaker. In 2023 he cut tasting fees from $40 to $20 on principle. The oak-shaded tasting room at Vineyard Drive and Highway 46 West welcomes walk-ins daily. The name itself is the ground: Linne and Calodo are the calcareous soil series underlying these west-side hills, a winery literally named for its dirt.
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