VINEYARDS

Lock Vineyard

 1520 Kiler Canyon Road, Paso Robles CA

Planted by Steve and Pam Lock in 1998 on approximately 30 Acres of gently rolling hillside terrain of Westside Paso Robles, Lock Vineyard offers exposures to the northeast, southeast and south enabling the vines take advantage of the varied sun and wind patterns of those exposures. Soils in the vineyard vary from calcareous limestone on the hill tops to areas with clay and loam near the bottoms of the hills.

All vines are planted with 1103 Paulsen rootstock encouraging greater root depths to withstand higher drought. Two clones are used in the Cabernet Sauvignon block, 08 and 337, to provide differences in fruit coloring. The Syrah is planted to the Estrella 01 clone and the entire Zinfandel block is planted to the 1A clone which has been popular in the Westside area.

During the course of a full growing season, the 25,000 vines on this vineyard are carefully tended to. From the pruning practices in the beginning of the growing season through shoot thinning, cluster thinning and harvest in October, the vines are pampered and stressed when necessary to produce the highest quality fruit possible.

Lock Vineyards uses a minimum of herbicides and pesticides, opting for both natural and mechanical means to control weeds and pests normally found in a vineyard. The use of cover crops consisting of both annual and perennial grasses provide a constant source of beneficial insects to help control those that are not so friendly. In-row tilling is used judiciously over the course of the growing season to control the weeds in the vine rows.