April 26, 2025

Ep 129: Breaking Plates, Pouring Paso – Bringing Greek Wines & Culture to Paso – Featuring Boutz Cellars

1 hour 8 minutes

🍇 Where Wine Takes You – Episode Highlights 🍷

Greek spirit. Paso soil. A father and son chasing a dream that started generations ago, and pouring it into the Adelaida hills today.

James and Manoli Boutzoukas of Boutz Cellars are bringing real Greek wine culture to Paso Robles, planting Assyrtiko, Roditis, Agiorgitiko – and betting on tradition in a whole new land.

When your roots run deep and your dreams run wild, you don’t follow maps — you draw new ones.

🌐 Paso Wine Wire:

• New stewards at Écluse Wines — as Thibido’s Gibsey and Josh Beckett bring things full circle. Learn more

• Charlie Palmer bets big on Paso’s food scene — revamping Paso Robles Inn and the Piccolo rooftop bar into the next culinary hotspots. (Credit: SF Chronicle) • American Idol producers auction off their winery — Ken Warwick and Nigel Lythgoe part ways with Villa San Juliette. (Credit: NY Post)

🍷 Travel Paso Spotlight:

This week’s Travel Paso Spotlight honors the AIDS/LifeCycle ride. A seven-day, 545-mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles that has included Paso Robles as a heartfelt stop for 30 years.

2025 marks the final AIDS/LifeCycle ride, and Paso gets to be part of the farewell. Thousands of riders will once again roll through our town and into our hearts before crossing the finish line on the California coast.

More on TravelPaso.com.

📢 Housekeeping:

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• Shoutout Feedspot for naming Where Wine Takes You a Top 3 Wine Podcast!

• Thanks to Million Podcasts for putting us at #11 on their Wine Podcast list worldwide.

🎟 Paso Wine Fest is coming!

Get your tickets at PasoWine.com and don’t miss the Paso 101 Wine Seminar with Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly—a can’t-miss masterclass to earn your Paso Wine Certificate during Wine Fest weekend.

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For planning your next adventure in Paso Robles, check out TravelPaso.com.

Tickets are now on sale for Paso Wine Fest (May 15–18, 2025). Head to pasowine.com for details and tickets.

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Original music on WWTY, “Good Company,” performed by Moonshiner Collective.

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