July 5, 2023
David Taylor Founded Winery After Moving to Paso Robles By Laura Ness, correspondent, as published on June 26, 2023 in the San Jose Mercury NewsFormer Los Gatos resident David Taylor might not have known it at the time, but the seeds of Paso Robles wine country that were sown when he attended Cal Poly as an electrical engineering major would blossom decades later into one of the most prolific wine…
February 23, 2023
The Life of a Winery When Crush is Crushed By Alan Goldfarb “It’s like the football season. You prepare for three months – and then you do all the work. And then you’re organizing for the next year.” – Defensive Tackle Scott Stelzle, Brockport State – Winemaker Scott Stelzle, Cordant Winery If you thought that after football, I mean harvest season, at a winery it means the work is finished,…
January 24, 2023
The Experienced Winemaker Just Finished His 1st Vintage for Cordant BY ALAN GOLDFARB Scott Stelzle has been making wine in Paso Robles for more than 20 years. For the 2022 vintage for Cordant, Scott, who is also an experienced pilot of vintage WWII airplanes, traveled more than 10,000 miles up and down the California Central Coast in his pickup. He visited every one of Cordant’s 17 vineyard sources – which gave…