Wedell Cellars, Edna Valley Winery & Tasting Room

Wedell Cellars traces to late-1970s Los Angeles, where Maurice Wedell spent a decade working with a noted French restaurateur and absorbing a wine obsession that moved him and his wife Susan to the Central Coast in 1988. Their first vintage in 1994 was a single barrel, twenty-eight cases of Chardonnay, and in 1996 they densely planted a steep north-facing hillside at the southern end of Edna Valley, the Hillside Vineyard whose watercolor still graces the estate labels, producing Chardonnay from 1999 and Pinot Noir from 2000.

Chasing perfect Pinot led the Wedells beyond the home valley: from 2004 they sourced from the Sta. Rita Hills, eventually grafting hillside Chardonnay over to Pinot and adding the value-tier Wavertree label in 2009. The patience shows in the reviews, with the 2010 Hillside Vineyard Pinot Noir earning 95 points from Wine Enthusiast on a late release, exactly the long-aging, Burgundian argument the house was built to make. Production stays tiny and restaurant-focused, the quiet connoisseur's corner of the greater Paso wine country.

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