Tolosa Winery

Tolosa Winery
4910 Edna Rd
San Luis Obispo, California
USA 93401
Phone: 805-782-0500
http://www.tolosawinery.com/cm/Home.html

Contact: Bob Schiebelhut
Email: [email protected]

Tolosa’s style of winemaking reflects our commitment to quality. Our goal is to produce a perfectly balanced wine and to stay true to the characteristic of the grape varietal. Selecting only the top 10% of the fruit from our Edna Ranch's 750 acres allows us to consistently produce distinctive wines. We produce estate grown wines that come from our vineyards planted in the cooler climate of Edna Valley, California. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay make up 80% of Tolosa wines, while Syrah and other small production varietals make up only 20%. Our winery is sustainable in all aspects of the wine growing and wine making process. To learn more about our sustainable practices click here.
Sustainable Practices at Tolosa

* Solar Powered Facility.
o In August 2009 Tolosa coverted to solar with SunPower Corp.
o View our performance monitor, showing our live energy saving statistics.
* SIP Certified, Sustainablity in Practice, click here to view the vineyard certification facts.
* All winery waste is recycled, composted, or otherwise recovered.
* We use vineyard tools with tractors specially designed to do multiple tasks at the same time that reduce the number of passes required through the vineyard, saving fuel and reducing compaction and erosion .
* We utilize cover crops that reduce erosion & compaction, build soil fertility, and provide habitat for beneficial insects.
* We have integrated pest management practices in place that carefully monitor the balance of insects, soil fertility, soil moisture, and vine health to minimize the waste of energy and chemical inputs. These practices make use of natural predators to control insect pests, and even weed species in some cases (we actually release a specific beetle which eats the seeds of star thistle.) We also utilize non-pesticide management methods, like using the Vine Mealybug’s own pheromones in small playing-card size clips hung on the vines, to confuse them during mating and thus lower their populations.

* Every drop of water that we use in the winery is recovered and biologically processed until all the water is utilized a second time through the drip systems to water the vineyards.

* All the vineyards are irrigated with low volume, low pressure drip irrigation placed at each individual vine to minimize the waste of water and maximize uniformity of vine growth.

Winemaker: Larry Brooks

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