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Jo Ann Hier
The heart and soul of our family, Jo Ann Hier, passed away December 1st, 2025. Our mother, wife, sister, grandmother, grammie and friend, went to be with the lord. Jo was born December 6, 1937, in California, Missouri, to Henry and Queen Markworth, the second born after a son and was the first of three daughters. At an early age, the family moved to the state of Washington. There, she graduated…
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Barrelhead As Essential Oil Rack
Barrelhead As Essential Oil Rack - ART MEETS NECESSITY, NATURALLY
ART MEETS NECESSITY, NATURALLY
The essential oil market is growing in leaps and bounds. So to keep up with demand, consumers need rack or shelf to store their oils. This is where a natural cohesion of two beautiful products come together.
A used wine barrel can be recyclable into a wide variety of items. Here, the two barrelheads on each end of a used wine barrel are repurposed into a…
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Did You Know Zinfandel can create medical advantages for your health?
Did You Know Zinfandel can create medical advantages for your health?
The black grape Zinfandel, one of the more common varieties in California, along with Italy and Croatia where the grape was likely first discovered, is very good for your health. Studies have discovered a wide range of advantages to your well-being.
It’s been argued that the darker the grape, the better it is for you, but regardless,studies have shown over-and-over that Zinfandel is great for…
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Paso Robles: Top Wine Country Travel Destination
Paso Robles: Top Wine Country Travel Destination
One of the older established online travel sites, Orbitz, has a list of places their editors say are the top destinations. This year, they have 17 different regions to visit and only one is in a wine country vicinity: Paso Robles. In fact Orbitz listed Paso as the number four most exciting and amazing places to travel to … in the world. Yes, the sleepy little town I fell in love with decades…
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Old Bank Barn As Winery
Old Bank Barn As Winery
Driving about here on the Central Coast in wine country, there’s plenty of new and old blended into the scenery along the rolling hills of Paso Robles. Yes, the booming vineyard business has greeted us with new modern and fancy buildings and tasting rooms. And yet there are unique and distinctive farms and barns that have given me new appreciation for the old history of the region. Diamond in the…
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Wood Bung Plug
If you’re not familiar with this term used in the world of wine, the bung hole is simply the hole on the top of a barrel. It-turn, the bung hole is covered with a bung or bung plug – similar to what a cork does. Other names like stopper, cork or taper can be used to describe a bung. The bung plug typically can be made out of almost anything including plastic, rubber, glass, silicone and of…
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Amazon Handmade
At the end of this summer, we will have concluded our third year of being in business as Paso Wine Barrels. As a tiny spec in the world of retail and not yet big enough for a storefront, we’ve tried to get our products in front of the public through a website and at arts and craft shows. We found Etsy’s online arts and craft site to be a decent way to show our wares to link-minded people, but…
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El Nino Conclusion: Godzilla Got Tamed
El Nino Conclusion: Godzilla Got Tamed
We were told by every weather prognosticator this side of Toyko, that 2015-2016 winter season would be one to remember as the Godzilla of all El Ninos bore down on the Golden State. The result? Meh. Godzilla is leaving – was he ever here? With the middle of spring in California, the forces of nature turn as the winter half of the year gives way to summer-type weather. The current week should…
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White Oak Is Good For Much More Than Wine
White Oak Is Good For Much More Than Wine
The white oak tree (quercus alba) is most famously known as the hard wood that oak wine barrels are made from. I believe the Irish called the oak, ‘fine tree’. And besides the fine affects it has on wine, the benefits of quercus alba are numerous. Old White Oaks can be as wide as they are tall. Note, I’m not a doctor and didn’t play one on television. Still, the natural components of the white…
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And The Newly Crowned Largest Wine Barrel Is?
And The Newly Crowned Largest Wine Barrel Is?
With time, records will fall, so as far as the largest wine barrel is concerned, a newly crafted 300,000 liter oak barrel made in the south of France, holds the peculiar notoriety of now being the largest oak wine barrel of its kind in the world. A very large barrel To be specific, the barrel was made – and finished this month – in the province of Languedoc in Saint-Drezery, France for the…
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California Wine Production Drops Again, But ...
California Wine Production Drops Again, But …
The Golden State generates over 90% of all wine produced in the United States. So sometimes numbers have to be put in prospective. Still, the wine grape tonnage created in California for the 2015 season dropped a second year in a row, according to the just released California Grape Crush Report. We at Paso Wine Barrels keep tabs on statistics like this because it can affect our business, whether…
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One-of-a-kind Coat And Hat Rack
One-of-a-kind Coat And Hat Rack
Sometimes we come up with ideas based on what we personally need around the shop or home. We needed a couple of spots where we could hang coats during the winter and all our assorted caps and hats. This particular need and idea isn’t unusual and certainly others have made coat and hat racks – heck there are hundreds of them for sale. Extremely unique coat and hat rack Ah, but with that said, I…
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MidWinter El Nino Update
MidWinter El Nino Update
A lot of ominous story lines were written about the coming monster El Nino for the 2015/2016 winter season. Those of us in drought-stricken California were bracing ourselves for an onslaught of rain that may not have had an equal. Well, there’s a bit of good news and bad. Cold – No big rains In Paso Robles, we awoke to plenty of icy conditions in December of 2015. The good news, to some degree,…
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Wine: Where It All Began, Sort Of
Wine: Where It All Began, Sort Of
Casual conversations among wine drinkers sometimes leads to where did it all begin. Okay, maybe my interest in history leads to that conversation. Still, where it all began is interesting thought regarding wine. When, then where Ancient pottery from archaeological site in Armenia Maybe the better question could be when did winemaking start. I’m not going to get into the exacts of this because…
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The Worlds First Motel
The Worlds First Motel
On the event’s 90th anniversary this month, it seems only right to look back at the world’s first ever motel. Postcard of the Motel Inn The only way to travel prior to affordable automobiles, was by bus, train or ship. Considering the advent of mass produced cars at the turn between 19th and 20th centuries, combined with the improved development and true major production with much less cost…
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Wine And China
The great experiment of Capitalism combined with Communism in China may be struggling. And with it, the sudden slowdown of wine consumption in China has followed. Vineyard at Huadong-Parry winery, Shandong Province, China. Wine and China intrigued me when I was contacted over the last couple years by some wine barrel import/exporters interested in buying up any and all wine barrels I could get my…
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Happy Thanksgiving From Wine Country
Happy Thanksgiving From Wine Country
Thanksgiving is a great American tradition and officially starts off our year end holiday celebration. In Paso Robles this time of season, the Central Coast of California is stunning in its colors with the flowing vineyards of red, orange and yellow reminding all of us of what a beautiful place we live in. I know some of you are already heading into the holiday rush; but, here’s hoping everyone…
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