About York Mountain Winery
York Mountain Winery is named for the mountain range that rises west of Paso Robles, creating one of California's most climatically distinctive wine micro-zones. The York Mountain AVA — California's smallest and most precisely defined appellation before it merged with Paso Robles — is defined entirely by the mountain's ability to channel Pacific Ocean marine air into vineyards at elevations and in configurations that no other Paso Robles sub-zone replicates.
Established in 1882, York Mountain Winery is one of California's oldest continuously operating wine estates — older than Prohibition, older than Napa Valley's most historic estates, older than California's statehood in the minds of the settlers who planted the first vines. The estate has survived every disruption that California wine history can name, including Prohibition (by making sacramental wine), the Depression, and multiple ownership changes.
The York Mountain micro-climate — consistently 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the Paso Robles valley floor — produces Pinot Noir and Syrah with the cool-climate tension that distinguishes the appellation from every other Paso Robles sub-zone.