Rabbit Ridge Winery — El Pomar District Winery & Tasting Room

Rabbit Ridge Winery is named for the wildlife trails that cross the estate's hillside — the rabbits whose ridge crossings gave the property its informal name before the winery existed. Erich Russell's Central Coast estate, established in 1981, carries this wildlife-topographic identity as a declaration of the property's natural character: a place where wild things still move freely across the land.

The El Pomar District estate produces Zinfandel, Grenache, Syrah, Petite Sirah, and Cabernet Sauvignon from calcareous estate vineyards with the kind of walk-in accessibility and family-welcoming hospitality that the wildlife-named property's unpretentious character implies. Four decades of farming the same hillside have given Erich Russell a deep understanding of the estate's specific character — how the calcareous limestone drains, how the vine roots have deepened over the decades, what the El Pomar micro-climate does to each variety.

The daily walk-in tasting room is dog-friendly, picnic-equipped, and priced for wine lovers who want genuine Paso Robles estate character without appointment-only exclusivity.