About Pretty-Smith Vineyards & Winery
Pretty-Smith Vineyards & Winery hyphenates two founding family surnames — Pretty and Smith — into a single hyphenated declaration of shared ownership and accountability. The two families put their names together on the same label, bound by a hyphen that says: this wine belongs to both of us.
The San Lucas estate, at the southern end of the Paso Robles appellation in Monterey County's warm inland valleys, produces Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot from estate vineyards with the family-partnership philosophy the dual-surname name implies. The San Lucas location gives the estate a distinct terroir: warmer than Templeton Gap, calcareous in places, with the kind of isolated agricultural character that remote California wine country provides.
The appointment-only format keeps the experience personal — appropriate for an estate whose identity is two families' hyphenated names.