Paul’s
Story . . .
Wine should be very pure and natural. The
only thing synthetic about our wine is the plastic cork, so you never have to
worry about getting a “corked” wine. We drink more of our wine than anyone else, we want it to be healthful and nutritious. We
guarantee our wine.
BUT . . . it has to be distinctive wine. Wine with full, rich flavor. Wine that makes food and
friends better. Wine that brings dismay when you find the
bottom. Wine that makes music in the glass,
sings on the tongue to tell where it grew. Wine you can afford to drink. Wine
made by Paradisos del Sol.
Paradisos is the Spanish derivative of pairidaēza, Persian پردیس (pardis) for a “walled enclosure,” from pairi
“around” + diz “form, shape.” It originally
comes from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (paradeisos “Persian garden”). It is a word that goes back
to 400 B.C. and refers to beautiful, irrigated gardens walled off from the
desert. When I walk through a vineyard, I feel I am in a paradise.
We are a small family-owned winery, using
grapes primarily from our Vineyard del Sol here at our winery. We also use a
few grapes from other small family vineyards in the
Paradisos del Sol
is an expression of my soul. The winery is not named for me (even though I am
plenty arrogant!), because it is more than just my sweat in a bottle of
Paradisos Red. I have help tending the vines, lots of different sweat irrigates
our paradise. My wife
We are believers in letting the grapes
become wine. We are Winegrowers not Winemakers. Our job is to eat grapes and
imagine what wine they wish to be—then provide the best conditions for the
transformation into great wine. Sometimes we use barrels, sometimes tanks. Most
often a barrel is the cocoon where the juice transforms into a dry table wine.
Sometimes the wines yearn to be sweet and luscious and a temperature-controlled
tank is the cocoon. (But then Angelica is sweet, luscious, and barrel-fermented
[it’s just complex]).
Based at our farm in Zillah, Paradisos is a
mostly estate winery. Grapes are crushed and wines are bottled at neighborhood
wineries.
As one of Washington’s most experienced
enologists, my first venture into wine was with blackberries in 1968. I have made
my living via fermented grapes since 1983 and I have collected pay from over 10
Northwest wineries (sometimes working for wine!).
I love the way wine can express the
influenced on its development. How its roots grow, the way the sun strikes the
leaves. Prevailing wind, the slope of the hill, the work of
the viñador. What the French call terroir,
and we call mesoclimate.
Great wine is grown not made. As a terroirest, I let the wine be what it is, not adjusting pH
and acidity to some textbook standard.
I have been an organic gardener since
shortly after birth. I was at Badger Mountain Vineyard when it became
Washington’s first certified organic vineyard, and was at Worden’s Winery to
produce the first organic wine in the state. Now we are working to bring you
the best wine our grapes can become. We guarantee our wine, period.
To help keep the planet green, we use only
clear glass, recyclable everywhere. Our packaging is 100% recyclable, please
do!
For over twenty years I have had a vision
of a traditional wine estate growing wine and food for my and other families.
My vision is of a home at Paradisos del Sol for the
elevation of grapes to the elixir of the gods—WINE!
My pleasure in gatherings of kith and kin,
for food and wine, drives my desire to share this experience. What better way
than to provide the wine for your next Gathering!
Winegrower
COME TASTE PARADISE!
Paradisos del Sol
www.paradisosdelsol.com
3230 Highland Drive
Zillah,
WA 98953
509.829.9000
509.829.5590
Updated 12/14/11