About Ranchita Canyon Vineyard
Ranchita Canyon Vineyard is named for the canyon where it sits, ranchita being Spanish for 'little ranch,' the diminutive form of rancho, describing the modest agricultural scale of the estate's San Miguel District canyon setting. The Kubat family's weekend-estate-turned-winery carries this name as both topographic fact and aspirational scale declaration: not a grand estate, but a little ranch, deeply loved.
The San Miguel District's northern position in the Paso Robles appellation creates a slightly different character than the better-known El Pomar and Templeton Gap districts, warmer during the day, with calcareous soils and the old-vine character that comes from vineyards planted in the 1990s by a family that has cared for them continuously since.
The Kubat family's Zinfandel and Primitivo (the Italian synonym for Zinfandel, its likely genetic parent) program is one of the more unusual in Paso Robles, producing both varieties side-by-side from the same estate allows visitors to taste the genetic connection between them.
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