Ca’Del Grevino is a winery with three tasting rooms: in Los Olivos, Orcutt, and Santa Barbara. Soon, they’ll get a fourth tasting room located at the winery itself.
The winery estate—where the grapes are actually grown—will get a new, “decent-sized” tasting room, said estate manager Kristin Vemo. The tasting room will be part of a new 35,000 square-foot production facility, she said.
Ca’Del Grevino currently doesn’t have a production facility to make wine at. That entire process happens off-site in a warehouse in Santa Maria currently, Vemo said.
Roughly 10,000 cases of wine are produced each year from the winery, Vemo said, but the expansion will allow Ca’Del Grevino to triple their production.
The new facility broke ground last November at the vineyard located just outside Santa Maria at 2510 E. Clark Ave., with construction slated for completion tentatively in the fall of 2018, Vemo said. The winery, which is owned by Randeep Grewal, hired local architects, contractors, and builders. He bought it from David Addamo, who’s now the winemaker there.
The massive expansion will also include underground caves for storage, some office space, and a banquet hall for events. Vemo said it’ll be built in a style resembling an Italian piazza, or public square, with lots of outdoor seating and a small amphitheater.
The space will also be used to host events like weddings, parties, and another year of the winery’s summer concert series, which Vemo said turned out to be a huge success in 2016.
This year’s series starts on June 9 and its first concert will be from the Molly Ringwald Project, a 1980s tribute band that concluded last year’s series with an attendance of more than 800 people.
If the music doesn’t draw people, then surely the wine will, Vemo said. Ca’Del Grevino is known for its rose and six award-winning varieties—chardonnay, riesling, pinot noir, dolcetto, grenache, syrah.
This year, Ca’Del Grevino submitted 11 wines to the San Francisco Chronicle wine competition, winning nine awards. This year’s contest had roughly 6,000 entries, Vemo said.
Starting in 2018, Ca’Del Grevino’s offsite tasting rooms won’t necessarily be the only places to try their award-winning wines.
“It’s definitely going to be a destination winery,” Vemo said. “It’ll be somewhere where you go and spend some time. It’s pretty big, pretty grandiose, and people will drive specifically to this building and taste our wine.”
Highlights
• Business networking opportunities in North County are plenty, and the SCORE Small Business Summit offers an opportunity for small companies to get their names out in the community. On April 26, SCORE is offering a series of 50-minute seminars that cover the latest business trends and marketing topics. Presentations include topics on Google search engine optimization, YouTube, Constant Contact email, Paychex for human resources, and more. The event takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Radisson Hotel located at 3455 Airpark Drive in Santa Maria. For more information, call Bob Kerwin at 489-0675 or email him at bckerwin@aol.com. There is no cost to attend.
• With the passage of Proposition 64, which legalizes recreational marijuana in California, are drug-free workplaces in California up in smoke? That’ll be the question posed for a webinar offered by the California Chamber of Commerce (CalChamber) on April 20 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The webinar will cover relevant employment laws, regulations, and case law pertaining to marijuana. The webinar is available for $199 and can be purchased at CalChamber’s website. For more information, visit calchamber.com.
Staff Writer David Minsky wrote this week’s Biz Spotlight. Information should be sent to the Sun via fax, email, or mail.
This article appears in Apr 6-13, 2017.