Le Cuvier Winery

Le Cuvier Winery A winery dedicated to the Greater Glory of the Elliptical Society Wine Club. We produce small amounts of intensely rich wines, fermented entirely on wild yeast.
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Organic and dry-farmed. Bless the Beasties! Doctrine of the Beasties: Be it known that there is firm empirical evidence to the effect that yeast & other varied wine pathogens die of boredom unless given an interesting environment within which to practice their art. This tautological proposition holds its deepest truth when sun & stone, vine & grape undergo fundamental transmutation into fine elixi

r via the agency of wild yeast & other similarly feral beasties, rather than through the effete & banal interaction of commercial strains of their distant freeze dried brethren, the latter being so boringly predictable. Thus, at Le Cuvier the entire process of wine making is left to the wild beasties, while all human interaction is firmly dedicated to making life interesting & nothing more. The Wine: And what does one gain from this evanescent approach to wine making? Curious synergy for one thing, but most assuredly and unequivocally, one begets rarefied wines peppered through & through with gnarly character, wines of fervor, wines which make themselves from grapes of impeccable quality
& breeding. Indulge your urbane tongue & aesthetic palate with a taste. Visit: Our hilltop location offers wondrous views of wine country & is a mere 4 miles from downtown Paso Robles.

Day 𝟙 of Bottling: From Barrel to Bottle.The rhythm of the bottling line is the heartbeat of the winery today. We aren’t...
04/30/2026

Day 𝟙 of Bottling: From Barrel to Bottle.

The rhythm of the bottling line is the heartbeat of the winery today. We aren’t just filling bottles; we are capturing a moment in time that encapsulates the grit of dry-farming, wild yeast fermentations and extended aging sur lie in neutral oak barrels.

For a small winery like ours, bottling is also a masterclass in “Cellar Tetris.” We’re spreading out every pallet and moving every barrel to make the magic happen. With 3 more bottling days in the next month and a half, the final corks will drop June 11th.

The stats:
🍷  Bottled today: ✨2022 Viognier ✨2023 Rose 2023✨Le Chien Tordu✨2023 Petite Sirah✨12th Rendition of ESR
🍷 Total case count: 702

An important first part of the journey is complete. Next stop? Your table 😉.

Did you know that the most profound wines aren’t “made”—they are cultivated into existence by a healthy planet? 🌍✨True s...
04/22/2026

Did you know that the most profound wines aren’t “made”—they are cultivated into existence by a healthy planet? 🌍✨

True stewardship goes far beyond the glass. It starts beneath our feet. For us, Earth Day isn’t a single square on the calendar; it’s a commitment to a living, breathing ecosystem that thrives without interference.
Here is how we honor the earth in every bottle:
• Dry Farming: We don’t use irrigation. By letting the vines struggle and search deep into the limestone for water, we save millions of gallons of a precious resource and produce fruit with unmatched intensity.
• The “Beasties”: We never introduce lab-grown yeast. We rely entirely on the native microorganisms—the wild “beasties”—that live on the skins of our grapes and in our cellar air.
• Neutral Oak: We use aged barrels that allow the wine to breathe and evolve, eliminating the need for new barrels every year.

Our philosophy has always been to leave the land better than we found it. That’s why we’ve officially committed to regenerative organic practices (more on this topic soon).🐑🌿
When you sip a glass of wine grown this way, you aren’t just tasting a grape—you’re tasting a preserved piece of a thriving, wild world.
Happy Earth Day today and everyday!
LivingSoil

🐑 There is something profoundly poetic about watching a flock of sheep weave through the vineyard, their steady grazing ...
04/05/2026

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There is something profoundly poetic about watching a flock of sheep weave through the vineyard, their steady grazing providing a rhythmic soundtrack to the season. While they look like a pastoral dream, these “woolly” (but recently sheared) visitors are actually hard-working partners in a regenerative ecosystem.
For those who believe that what’s in the glass should honor the earth it came from, this is where part of the magic happens.




🍷2022 Zinfandel100% dry-farmed ZinfandelVineyard: St. Peter of AlcantaraAging: 32 mo. in neutral oakCases bottled: 248Bo...
02/04/2026

🍷2022 Zinfandel
100% dry-farmed Zinfandel
Vineyard: St. Peter of Alcantara
Aging: 32 mo. in neutral oak
Cases bottled: 248
Bottling Date: 05.12.25

Pair with ⤵️
🍴deconstructed tamal - confit chicken leg with cocoa bbq rub, corn & sautéed shallot salsa, queso fresco, bull blood micros
🍴heirloom squash custard - vanilla whipped cream, royal cinnamon, pomegranate seeds

Moroccan mint and cherry cola-colored petticoats coalesce, swishing softly as
they sing their siren song along cobblestone streets smooth as the individual
drupelets of a raspberry, or the taste buds dotting the surface of your tongue,
interspersed with tantalizing turquoise suits and heady hibiscus handkerchiefs
chasing diligently after, offering chartreuse and mezcal lime elixirs, intended
to lure astray with their promise of a fantastic Faustian bargain. Now, between
every perfect purple plum bump, and gunpowder green cannonball contour,
fireworks can be glimpsed, like the ebb and flow of live coral in the sea, a pearl
in each Kumamoto oyster twinkling with the light of a thousand stars shining
down in the narrow overhead slices of night as seen through close-set buildings.
The sea beckons, drawing the celebratory party ever onward, like an oasis in the
desert to all in need of a drink, like toro belly sushi with fresh wasabi to those
ravenous with hunger. Elegant as elderberry, piercing as persimmon, and sweet
as quince candy, this Zinfandel is a tide in which to be swept away; a swirling
vortex of jujube and white fig, followed by a misting Meyer lemon spray.

notes by clay selkirk, winemaker & all-around cowboy

Fall 2025 Collection of Wine + Food Pairings





🍷 nv Pentimento ‘25 BottlingA multifarious amalgamation of Bordeaux varietals spanning decades and aged in neutral oak b...
02/04/2026

🍷 nv Pentimento ‘25 Bottling
A multifarious amalgamation of Bordeaux varietals spanning decades and aged in neutral oak barrels
Cases bottled: 198
Bottling Date: 05.10.25

Pair with ⤵️
🍴purple potato and swiss sausage - port salut fondue and gremolata
🍴double r ranch seared rib eye - green peppercorn demi, arugula micros

It’s late afternoon, and the light settles over everything like a soft-spoken
promise. You’re barefoot in the doorway of the cottage, wrapped loosely in a
piece of linen that still carries the scent of lemon peel, cedarwood, and the herbs
you tied to dry above the stove. The air holds more than the present. It holds
the past as well. Quietly, without asking to be noticed. The walls have absorbed
years of slow-simmered meals, rosemary crushed beneath fingers, sun-warmed
apricots halved and laid out to dry. There’s a trace of woodsmoke in the beams,
English lavender from long-gone wash days, cardamom folded into sweet bread
baked for innumerable gatherings. You stir a pot of chickpeas with the back of a
wooden spoon. The broth is fragrant, alive with a fresh bouquet garni: bay, thyme,
parsley, and a little rosemary, echoing what’s come before. The scent rises gently,
mixing with the older perfumes the cottage never quite let go of. It feels like a
conversation across time. Beside you, on the table, a piece of warm bread rests,
soft, golden, dappled with olive oil and cumin. It’s not hurried. It’s not waiting.
It simply is, and it will be there when you’re ready. […]
And it feels right.
Maybe even eternal.

notes by miranda thompson, vp of quality control

Fall 2025 Collection of Wine + Food Pairings




02/04/2026

We are so excited to be pouring at this event!

🍷 2022 Petite Sirah100% dry-farmed Petite SirahVineyards: St. Peter of Alcantara, Worth Hill, Kirk-LandryAging: 31 month...
01/06/2026

🍷 2022 Petite Sirah
100% dry-farmed Petite Sirah
Vineyards: St. Peter of Alcantara, Worth Hill, Kirk-Landry
Aging: 31 months in neutral oak barrels
Cases bottled: 198
Bottling Date: 04.09.25

Pair with ⤵️
🍴pork shu mai - minced pork, purple cabbage
🍴beet & avocado - marinated red beets, avocado mousse, sushi rice, furikake

A wine made for the gloaming, when the candles catch, the room hushes, and everything good begins. It starts dark, rich, and velvet-thick. You sit back in your chair and the world softens. There’s warmth, like blackberry pie cooling on a windowsill, like someone cooking pork over mesquite and telling stories that get better with every retelling. You catch the scent of redwood forest, deep, wet earth, old trees breathing. Someone nearby is grinding Ethiopian coffee, laughing. There’s a hint of white pepper in the air. Perhaps cloves. Perhaps memory. A briny brightness appears like sea air caught in joyful laughter on a warm afternoon with Castelvetrano olives eaten from your fingers on a sunlit rock by the sea. Then, it deepens, like dusk settling around a fire. Mint and basil, cool and clear. A hint of truffle, earthy and mischievous. Smoke, soft and shadowed like a secret flame just out of sight, like the faint curl of campfire wisps drifting through evening air, more suggestion rather than scent. And something warm and toasty, like sunflower seeds in a paper cone from a crowded market square. This libation settles softly, like a quiet moment shared. It’s a journey through a day you haven’t yet lived, but somehow remember. You look around the table. The fire’s crackling. Your friends are flushed and smiling. And you know, in that golden, flickering moment, you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

notes by miranda thompson, vp of quality control

Fall 2025 Collection of Wine + Food Pairings

🍷 2022 Grenache100% dry-farmed GrenacheVineyards: 4Hearts, Kirk-Landry, Worth HillAging: 32 months in neutral oak barrel...
12/26/2025

🍷 2022 Grenache
100% dry-farmed Grenache
Vineyards: 4Hearts, Kirk-Landry, Worth Hill
Aging: 32 months in neutral oak barrels

Pair with ⤵️
🍴BLTE - bacon, lettuce, tomato, egg
🍴Japanese Egg Salad - white bread, crispy smoked pimenton paprika pork, campari tomato

Take yourself on a whimsical journey of the mind, to the Mediterranean coast and its relaxing umbrella shaded cafĂŠs. Ancient olive trees offer additional ambiance as you slowly sip on your early evening vermouth apĂŠritif. You are in no rush to pay the tab nor to leave. While you relax, you notice the cool breeze, bringing with it the sounds of friendship, familiarity and commerce from the open-air market just around the corner, along with the smells of fresh cut watermelon, blood orange, feta, kalamatas and strawberries, of course of course. This life is captivating as pomegranate incense wafting from an open door, as the first bite of a red delicious apple, or edible flowers over homemade vanilla bean ice cream. As you sink your teeth firmly into the lychee flesh, and decide it behooves you to order up another round; maybe something like a Gin-Campari Old Fashioned, with lemon zest, sugar and grapefruit bitters this time; you glance once more over your shoulder and notice the sun beginning to set through carved marble columns, over crystal clear blue Aegean waters, all the way down to the white sand on the beach. There is nowhere you would rather be.

notes by clay selkirk, winemaker & all around cowboy

Fall 2025 Collection of Wine + Food Pairings

🍷 2021 ChrysosBlend: Viognier + MarsanneVineyard: Alta ColinaPair with ⤵️🍴Kokoda (Fijian Ceviche)🍴Chicken Garbure6:00 pm...
12/23/2025

🍷 2021 Chrysos
Blend: Viognier + Marsanne
Vineyard: Alta Colina

Pair with ⤵️
🍴Kokoda (Fijian Ceviche)
🍴Chicken Garbure

6:00 pm. The sun, a dying ember, dips below the horizon, casting hues of deep violet and molten gold onto the leeward side of the heart shaped island. Shadows lengthen, stretching like ancient spirits across the white sand. Silks and woven fibers, adorned with vibrant patterns, catch the last vestiges of light.  A profound sense of revelry swells. The gentle, ceaseless whisper of the palm fronds, carrying the saline kiss of the Indian Ocean, becomes the pulse of the island’s abundant grace that permeates the very air. A joyous rush ensues as eager hands reach for tropical concoctions: pineapple-passion fruit mojitos, sun-kissed orange margaritas, and fiery ginger mules, each now seeking their chosen perch within the sacred circle. [read full description on our website - link in bio]

notes by mika, resident vampire

Fall 2025 Collection of Wine + Food Pairings

✨ Do you believe in magic? ✨
Meet XLB — bold, rare, and aged longer than most: 45 months.100% dry farmed 🍇 71% Zinfandel...
11/30/2025

✨ Do you believe in magic? ✨

Meet XLB — bold, rare, and aged longer than most: 45 months.

100% dry farmed
🍇 71% Zinfandel + 29% Petite Sirah.

Just 48 cases exist. When it’s gone, it’s legend. This is the bottle that owns the holiday table. Beef bourguignon recommended.

Compliments guaranteed. 🍷🔥

Address

Tasting: 3333 Vine Hill Ln
Paso Robles, CA
93446

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

Telephone

+18052385706

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